By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Suspended Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas may get to practice his basketball skills with a bunch of inmates if the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office has its way. The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed a sentencing memorandum Tuesday recommending that Arenas get 3 months in jail and 300 hours of community…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A Baltimore police detective on a DEA Task Force was charged Tuesday with fraudulently arranging for an informant to get more than $10,000 in payoffs he didn’t deserve, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. The cop is also charged with pocketing some of that money. Detective Mark J. Lunsford, 29,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The ex-acting Boss of the Genovese Organized Crime Family Daniel Leo “The Lion” was sentenced Tuesday in New York to 18 months in prison and ordered to forfeit $1.3 million in illegal proceeds. Leo pleaded guilty in January to conspiracy and participation in the affairs of the Genovese Organized Crime Family…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Secret Service was paying big-time hacker Albert Gonzalez $75,000 a year as an informant before he was arrested in 2008 for operating a multi-million dollar credit and debit card hacking operation, the website WIRED reported. WIRED attributed the information to Gonzalez’s best friend and convicted accomplice Stephen Watt. Gonzalez is…
By Allan Lengel tickletheiwire.com A Boston federal jury on Monday convicted a former high ranking Homeland Security official in New England of encouraging her illegal immigrant housekeeper to stay in the country, the Boston Globe reported. Lorraine Henderson, 52, Boston’s port director for Customs and Border Protection, who testified last week that she had done…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – More than a week after three people linked to the U.S. Consulate in Mexico were slain, the U.S. is taking things up a notch. The Washington Post reports “that a high-level delegation of U.S. officials, including three Cabinet secretaries, will meet with Mexican officials in Mexico City on Tuesday…
Len Levitt wrote the police column “One Police Plaza” for Newsday for 10 years and has worked for several other publications including Time magazine. His website is nypdconfidential.com By Len Levitt nypdconfidential.com Does the Federal Bureau of Investigation frown on romance? Or does love cause some New York agents to lose their way? Joe Demarest,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Ernest Reith has been named associate executive assistant director of the FBI’s Science and Technology Branch. The FBI said Reith started his career in 1985 as a regional analyst at the Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) in St. Louis, Missouri “where he developed and maintained geospatial intelligence databases of the…
