By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Warren Bamford, a well-respected figure in the FBI who heads the Boston office, will retire next month after 24 years with the agency to take a job with a private utility, the Boston Globe reported. Gail Marcinkiewicz, a spokeswoman for the Boston FBI, told the Globe Bamford’s last day will be…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – About a dozen police chiefs from cities like Phoenix, Tuscon, Houston and Los Angeles plan to meet Wednesday with Atty. Gen. Eric Holder Jr. to express concerns about Arizona’s new immigration law, CNN is reporting. CNN said the chiefs will voice concerns that the new law will “drive a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The late Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) was on the radar screen of the FBI for many decades and died in February while under investigation for possible kickbacks from defense contractors, according to FBI documents released. “This release contains public source information found in a Pittsburgh Division investigation into allegations…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate gave the final nod Tuesday to assistant U.S. Attorney R. Booth Goodwin II to become the U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of West Virginia in Charleston. He will replace Charles T. Miller. Goodwin is the son of Joseph R. Goodwin, the district’s chief federal judge.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A high-ranking U.S. Marshal Service official is in trouble. The Washington Examiner reports that Sylvester E. Jones, assistant director of the Marshal service’s Witness Security Division, has been placed on leave following charges that he beat his wife in suburban Washington. The paper reports that Jones was arrested May 3 on…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Retired FBI agent Cornelius “Neil” Sullivan, who was the section chief of the intelligence division and was credited with fostering improved relations with the CIA, died earlier this month in Silver Spring, Md. at age 84, the Washington Post reported. Sullivan joined the FBI in 1951 and served in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Signs of life in the perjury investigation into seven-time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens surfaced Tuesday when a key witness in the case testified before a federal grand jury in Washington, the AP reported. Clemen’s former personal trainer Brian McNamee spent more than 2 1/2 hours inside the U.S….
By Allan Lengel For AOL News The crime isn’t kosher, but the prison meals certainly are for Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad. One night the menu calls for vegetarian stuffed cabbage; the next, kosher beef meatloaf or turkey cutlet. New York U.S. Magistrate Judge James C. Francis last week granted a request by Shahzad,…
