By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As the disastrous Gulf spill drags on, someone is going to pay big time. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr., in an interview with CBS’ Bob Schieffer in Aspen, Col., indicated that the criminal probe may go beyond BP, according to Politico. “There are a variety of entities and a variety of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com At 93, mobster John “Sonny” Franzese — the underboss of the Colombo crime family — had a hard time staying awake during his racketeering trial in federal court in Brooklyn, the Associated Press reported. To boot, he had to sit there while his own son — a former mobster turned government…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — FBI agents are supposed to unearth scams, not become victims of them. This time is different. Up to 300 or so retired and current federal agents from the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), invested collectively tens of millions of dollars of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – In the end, it left me scratching my head. Russian spies. Huh. So 60s. So Sputnik-era like. Forgive me, but some how, with al Qaeda and every other hell-bent-to-destroy-America group out there, Russian spies don’t seem all that threatening. Nonetheless, the FBI arrested 10 last week. And on Thursday…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — As expected, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III tapped Timothy P. Murphy to become the second in command at the FBI. “Tim has consistently shown exceptional leadership and met tough challenges head-on,” Mueller said in a statement issued Thursday. “I have every expectation that he will do the same…
By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com Trades in sports like the NBA often garner plenty of attention. But this trade is different: spies for spies. The New York Daily News reports that a plan is in the works to send the 10 Russian spies arrested last week home in exchange for imprisoned spies who did work for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s pretty typical for Washington politicians to leave public office and cash in the chips in the private sector. Sometimes they go a little too far. Federal authorities say ex-Michigan Congressman Mark Siljander, who was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, went too far. And on Wednesday, he pleaded guilty to…
By William Rashbaum New York Times A feared and elusive senior Al Qaeda leader and three other operatives were indicted in Brooklyn on Wednesday in the suicide bomb plot to attack New York’s subways last year and what prosecutors said was a related terror plot in Britain, the Justice Department announced in Washington. The indictment,…
