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![Book Claims “Deep Throat” Leaked Because He Wanted Top FBI Spot](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/deepthroat2.jpg)
Book Claims “Deep Throat” Leaked Because He Wanted Top FBI Spot
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The legend of Watergate lives on. A book to be released next month, “Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat,” reports that Felt, the number two guy in the FBI during Watergate, was leaking, not out of concern for public good but rather because he was angry he was not getting…
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FBI Shows Up; Texas Mayor Has Some Explaining to Do
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com When you’re the mayor and the FBI shows up with a search warrant at your home, you, as Ricky Ricardo used to say, “got some splainin to do.” The FBI and Texas Rangers showed up Tuesday with a search warrant for Art Franco, the mayor of Anthony, Tex., reports the news…
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Ex-Atty. Gen. Meese Declines to Comment on Operation Fast and Furious
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The poor Daily Caller. The conservative news website, which is bent on bashing Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr., couldn’t get the former Attorney Gen. Ed Meese to do the same, despite attempts. The website tried to get Meese to trash Holder or others in the Justice Department in connection with the…
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Off Color Texts Hurt Justice Department’s Largest Sting Targeting Foreign Bribery
By Del Quentin Wilber Washington Post WASHINGTON — In text message after text message, FBI agents and their key informant joked about sex, booty calls, prostitutes, cigars, the Village People, the informant’s wives and an agent’s girlfriend. They even pondered who might play their roles in a movie based on their sting. When arrests were…
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Physician Handed Four Life Sentences for Fatal Prescriptions
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A Chicago Physician was handed a steep sentence on Tuesday for his role in the deaths of four individuals, the FBI said. Paul H. Volkman was sentenced to four consecutive terms of life imprisonment, the FBI said. He was convicted of “illegally prescribing and dispensing pain pills outside the scope of…
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Romney Gets Secret Service Detail
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com After months of campaigning, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney will now have the protection of the Secret Service, reports ABC News. While there are no specific threats to the candidate, the increased crowds at Romney’s speaking events warrant the added security, according to ABC. Former Republican hopeful Herman Cain, who has…
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Trial Date Set for Mobster “Whitey” Bulger
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com And now for the moment all the followers of Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger have been waiting for. Bloomberg news reports that the federal trial for Bulger,82, who was on the lam for 16 years, has been set for Nov. 5 in Boston. He is accused of killing at least 19…
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Calif. Couple Sentenced for Enslaving Illegal Immigrants
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A California couple was sentenced to 18 months each for harboring illegal aliens and forcing them to work in substandard conditions, the FBI said in a statement on Monday. Maximino Morales, 46, and his wife, Melinda Morales, 48, of Paso Robles, Calif., had the victims working at their elder care facilities,…