July 8, 2011
Undercover FBI Agent Gets Praise For his Work With the Mob
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Jerry Capeci, the mob expert who runs the website Gang Land News, offers nothing but high praise in an article this week about FBI agent David Sebastiani, who went undercover to bring down some Philly mobsters. Capeci wrote that Sebastiani, who works out the New York division and is a certified…
Update: Fast and Furious Official No Longer Going to Mexico as Attache; Mexican Govt. Asks for Transcripts of His Testimony
Update By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com William Newell, who headed ATF’s Phoenix Division during the controversial operation dubbed Fast and Furious, won’t be going to Mexico as ATF’s attache after all. The agency has decided to to nix that assignment before he even heads south. Instead, he’s been named special assistant to the ATF Assistant Director…
Could Latest Scandal Kill ATF?
By Josh Gerstein Politico WASHINGTON — The unfolding scandal over a gunrunning investigation allegedly botched by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives could do what years of criticism of the long-beleaguered agency never quite accomplished — result in its demise. That, at least, is the view of some former ATF employees and advocates…
Las Vegas Man Livid; Says FBI Ignored 2008 Tip About Mobster Whitey Bulger
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The James “Whitey” Bulger story ain’t going away any time soon. The latest: A Las Vegas man is livid. The Boston Herald reports that the man claims the FBI ignored his tip in 2008 that he spotted Bulger on the Santa Monica Pier and alerted “America’s Most Wanted.” “The FBI should…