Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com State Sen. Thomas W. Libous and his son Matthew were indicted Tuesday on separate charges, the New York Times reports. Sen. Libous, 61, of Birmingham was charged with lying to federal agents, while his son was charged with filing false tax returns. Libous, who first won a seat in the Senate in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former U.S. Border Patrol agent has been indicted – for the second time in a superseding indictment. Raimundo Borjas was issued with a revised indictment that charges whim with 10 counts of money laundering on top of the original charges of trying to avoid detection of deposited funds, the Arizona Daily…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, who was indicted on fraud and other charges this week, served as an FBI agent for 11 years, spending about half of that time investigating financial corruption, the Wall Street Journal reports. Grimm’s congressional biography states that he worked in the New York FBI office from 1995 to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hunter Moore, who once operated the revenge-porn website IsAnyoneUp.com, and an accomplice have been arrested and accused of hacking into computers and stealing nude photos, the Rolling Stone reports. Thursday’s arrest of Moore and Charles Evens came on the heals of a 15-count indictment. Moore, among other things, is accused of paying…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The former governor of the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico has been indicted on charges that he allowed large-scale drug rings to operate in exchange for large bribes from drug traffickers, the FBI announced Monday. Tomas Yarrington Ruvalcaba, 56 was charged with the RICO statute and several conspiracy charges. Ruvalcaba, who served as…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Corrupt FBI agent John Connolly urged the feds against prosecuting him and James “Whitey” Bulger so they could continue delivering information about rival gangs, a former henchman for the accused mob boss testified Wednesday, The Boston Globe reports. Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi testified that Connolly helped them avoid indictments at a…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Dzokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, appeared in U.S. District Court in Boston and pleaded not guilty. It was his first appearance since he was arrested in April. Tsarnaev was charged in a a 30-count indictment in connection to the April 15 bombing and subsequent manhunt. The charges are…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Northern California man accused of attempted murder in the shootings three U.S. Homeland Security agents with an assault rifle has been charged, the Sacramento Bee reports. Victor Flores, 20, was indicted Tuesday in connection with a May 3 shooting outside his home in Petaluma. At the time of the shootings, federal…
