By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Jeffrey C. Johnson has been named the FBI’s assistant director for the Office of Information Technology Systems Development. He will also assume the role of the agency’s chief technology officer, the FBI announced Thursday. Before joining the bureau in August, he worked in the private sector where “he managed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Can you spell M-I-S-T-R-I-A-L? Well, it may be too early to assume one will be declared in the racketeering trial of mobster John Gotti Jr., but it can’t be ruled out at this point. A federal judge in New York ordered jurors on Thursday to keep deliberating even after they declared…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Former Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese III, who served under President Ronald Reagan, is the latest big name to publicly criticize the White House decision to prosecute the 9/11 terror suspects in a civilian court in New York. The Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy and Chairman of the Center for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Many decades later, the FBI still won’t let go of the dozens of unsolved racially motivated Civil Rights Era murders. On Wednesday, at Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., the FBI’s Civil Unit Chief Cynthia Deitle announced that the agency was looking for help locating next of kin in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Ever since FBI agents raided his homes in Washington and New Orleans in 2005, little has gone his way. But Wednesday was different for ex-Rep. William Jefferson, who faces a 13 year prison sentence. In an unexpected move, and against the advice of the prosecution, U.S. District Judge T.S….
Miller Helped Convict James Hoffa By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Herbert J. “Jack” Miller Jr. lead the Justice Department’s war on organized crime in the 1960s under Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, and helped convict legendary Teamster James Hoffa , according to the Washington Post. On the flip side, as a top notch D.C. defense…
FBI agent Steve Martinez is packing his bags after heading the FBI’s Las Vegas office to take on a bigger job: Heading the Los Angeles Office. Bigger job, bigger headaches. But he’s up for it. By Richard A. Serrano Las Vegas Sun LAS VEGAS — One of Steve Martinez’s first experiences as the head of…
