First he leaves At the Movies; now, he's no longer the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. As of tomorrow, Richard Roper's back in the private sector, working for Thompson & Knight, after four years spent as U.S. Attorney. Course, this was inevitable: Barack Obama will pick a new person for the job, and Roper, a President Bush appointee and a federal prosecutor for 21 years, figured it was better to jump now than get pushed later. Still, as recounted in the media release after
Mike MazuloNoor Elashi is the 23-year-old daughter of Holy Land Foundation co-founder Ghassan Elashi, who found out only today that he will be sentenced in May following his conviction last November; he's looking at 15 years to life in prison, after having been among those convicted of donating to Hamas following a 2007 mistrial. (Ghassan was also convicted in 2005 of funding terrorism.) Noor, a University of North Texas graduate and former reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram profiled in o
