By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Let’s face it, Harold Goldstein of Newport Beach, Calif., really really loved being an attorney. Really. One big problem: He didn’t have a law degree. In May, he was sprung from prison after serving time for posing as an attorney. Last Sunday, the FBI arrested the 64-year-old man at his home…
This is a rather large field of candidates. All around the country, people are jockeying for U.S. Attorney posts, politicking and making phone calls to try and get the edge. By Robbyn Mitchell St. Petersburg Times TAMPA — A politician, a professor, a former police officer and former federal prosecutors have all applied to replace…
A widow whose husband, a Boston nightclub owner, was killed by mobsters wants the government to pay for her husband’s death. She says in a lawsuit that the FBI failed to take action against the mobsters, who were working as FBI informants. A federal judge has already ruled in her favor. Now another federal judge…
The questions that looms large: Will it hurt the prosecution not to have the testimony of key witness Lori Mody, who wore an FBI wire? Some say yes. Sure, the prosecution can still play the FBI tapes, but it would be better if Mody testified. The fact she isn’t obviously means there were some big…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – A man in his 20s who worked for the D.C. Inspector General’s Office collapsed and died Wednesday in suburban Virginia while taking a FBI physical stress test to become an agent, according to sources familiar with the incident. Lloyd Hodge, a special agent with the D.C. Inspector General’s Office,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — An 88-year-old man with ties to white supremacists entered the U.S. Holocaust Museum on 14th Street in downtown Washington shortly after noon Wednesday and opened fire and killed a guard, law enforcement authorities said. Two other guards returned the fire and struck the shooter, seriously wounding him, according to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Brian Truchon, chief of the Operational Support Section in the Criminal investigative Division at FBI headquarters, has been named the special agent in charge of the agency’s Kansas City Division. Truchon, a native of Illinois, replaces Monte C. Strait, who is retiring. Truchon entered the FBI academy in 1987 and was…
