Former FBI Agent Recalls Real-Life ‘Casino Story’ And the Perp Walk
Although I have never been a perp, I participated on a famous perp walk in 1983 and have the black-and-white photo to prove it.
Although I have never been a perp, I participated on a famous perp walk in 1983 and have the black-and-white photo to prove it.
As a result, the FBI terminated its cooperation agreement with the Robert Gentile.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents searching for evidence of a 30-year-old mob murder said they found possible human remains in a New York home once occupied by a famous gangster, the Associated Press reports. The Queens house was once home to James Burke, a Lucchese crime family associate known as “Jimmy the Gent” and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Up for sale: Two story, lakefront Florida retreat riddled with bullets. The suggested starting price: $1 million. The frame house in rural Ocklawaha, about 60 miles northwest of Orlando, is where FBI agents killed legendary Ma Barker in 1935, Reuters reports. She was the mother of some gangsters of the Barker and…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Was the late Godfather John Gotti a draft dodger? Well, kinda, sorta. His status with the military is included in 1,580 pages of FBI files on Gotti from 1964 to 1995, archived on a CD-ROM by the website paperlessarchives.com. Gotti was the boss of the Gambino crime family, nicknamed the “Dapper…
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Using “mob turncoats” to testify in court doesn’t always work. It comes down to credibility. Apparently, jurors weren’t buying what “mob turncoat” John Alite was selling as a star prosecution witness in the the fourth and final unsuccessful trial in 2009 against his ex-best friend, John (Junior) Gotti, son of the late…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI in all likelihood put an end to any aspirations of Philadelphia police inspector Daniel Castro becoming the department’s commissioner. On Friday, agents arrested him at his home on charges of extortion in a scheme the Philadelphia Inquirer reported ” portrays him more like a gangster.” Castro is the 15th…
The very able author Jonathan Eig, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, who has written books on baseball legends Jackie Robinson and Lou Gehrig , has now written about another type of legend, and a ruthless one at that: Al Capone. It details his colorful life and how the feds brought him down. Here’s the…