“Geezer Bandit”/fbi photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Five bank robberies and 3 ½ months later, the FBI in San Diego is still hunting for an elusive, elderly mystery man in his 70s dubbed the “Geezer Bandit.” “It’s unusual for someone this age to be robbing banks,” Darrell Foxworth, an FBI spokesman in San Diego said…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Joseph Persichini Jr., the head of the Washington field office, is retiring this month under a cloud of allegations that he violated agency rules when taking an open book exam. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the Office of Professional Responsibility, which conducts ethics investigations, had recommended disciplinary action,…
It’s never a good thing when an agency which is part of the Department of Homeland Security — emphasis on Security — makes such a goof. Someone needs to pay closer attention. By Spencer S. Hsu and Carrie Johnson Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration inadvertently revealed closely guarded secrets related…
Holder in GQ (left) and in Ebony By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. is getting serious shout outs this month in some major magazines — GQ and Ebony. Not bad. Ebony, in its December/January issue, listed Holder as one of the “Ebony Power 150” along with such notables as Michelle…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The angry cross of hate still burns bright for some people — even in these times. In this instance, four Arkansas men this week were given sentences in federal court in Hot Springs, Ark., ranging from one to two years in prison for trying burn a cross to drive off a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III has appointed former FBI director William Webster to conduct an independent review of the agency’s policies and actions prior to mass shootings at Fort Hood on Nov. 5. The FBI said in a press release Tuesday that a preliminary review had been completed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI and prison officials are investigating a fatal stabbing of an inmate Sunday at the U.S. Penitentiary at Hazelton in West Virginia, the Associated Press reported. The facility has been on lockdown since the Sunday when Jimmy Lee Wilson, 26, was stabbed to death during an altercation, AP reported. He…
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