By Allan Lengel For AOL News Short of handing over Osama bin Laden, the “underwear bomber” accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day isn’t likely to strike up a deal with prosecutors that will set him free any time soon, legal experts say. “I don’t think they’re going to be…
Anthony Riggio is a former lawyer who went on to work for the FBI for 24 years. He held a number of posts during that time including assistant special agent in charge of the Detroit office. He retired in 1995 as a senior executive at FBI headquarters. By Anthony T. Riggio, FBI Agent (Retired) For…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com By the FBI’s account, the anthrax case that triggered a wave of panic in this nation in 2001 with the death of five people, has been solved. But not all are as convinced as the FBI that the real culprit is government scientist Bruce Ivins, who committed suicide in July 2008…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two undercover ATF agents agents infiltrated the violent Pagans Outlaw Motorcycle Gang and derailed a plot to kill rival Hells Angels members with homemade grenades, the New York Daily News reported. That interesting tidbit came out as federal agents rounded up 19 members and associates of the Pagans Outlaw Motorcycle Gang,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary on Thursday gave the nod to two U.S. Attorneys and four U.S. Marshals. The U.S. Attorney’s who passed that hurdle in the long process were Michael J. Moore (not to be confused with the filmmaker) for the Middle District of Georgia and Joseph H. Hogsett for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Since the beginning, Chicago Police chief Jody Weis, an ex-FBI agent, has been battling the perception of being an outsider in an agency that doesn’t take so kindly to such things. The latest attack on Weis came Wednesday when more than 300 off-duty Chicago cops stood outside police headquarters to protest…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 44-year-old Long Island man was arrested on Wednesday on charges of unwittingly helping fund the Times Square bomber Faisel Shahzad, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. The indictment charged that Mohammad Younis transferred thousands of dollars from Pakistan to the U.S. to Shahzad through an unlicensed money transfer business known as…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com For a while, during the public corruption trial of ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich in downtown Chicago, the only sure conviction appeared to involve defendant Douglas Belkin, a Wall Street Journal reporter. In July, the 42-year-old reporter was arrested while covering the trial of Blagojevich and his brother Robert, the Associated Press reported….
