By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. fired off a letter Thursday to Senate leaders urging them not to pass legislation blocking the administration from moving Guantanamo terrorist suspects to U.S. soil. “This provision goes well beyond existing law and would unwisely restrict the ability of the Executive branch to prosecute alleged terrorists…
Joe Valiquette is a retired FBI supervisory special agent and J. Peter Donald is a public affairs specialist for the FBI in New York. This is the first of a three part series written for the FBI. By Joe Valiquette and J. Peter Donald Thirty years ago, in the heart of New York City, on…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The 21-year-old Baltimore man busted in an FBI sting on charges of trying to blow up a military recruitment center in Catonsville, Md., , was aware of the FBI sting in Portland in November involving a suspected terrorist, but decided to move forward with his plan anyways, the Associated Press reported….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As expected, Thomas Porteous of New Orleans is no longer a federal judge. The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted to convict him on all four articles of impeachment that included allegations that he corruptly accepted meals, trips and other gifts from a bail bondsman while serving as a state judge, lied…
Group: Delaware County Community College Alumni Association Subject: DCCC Alumni-Company seeking Accountant position ASAP We are working to fill a Project Accountant position. Our client, a large University in Newark, DE, has embarked on an ambitious capital plan in support of its recently completed strategic plan, “Path to Prominence”. Currently there is nearly $400M of…
By Glynnesha Taylor ticklethewire.com In what has become an increasingly familiar scenario played out around the country, a Baltimore man was arrested Wednesday right after trying to detonate a phony bomb at an Armed Forces recruiting station in Catonsville, Md., in what turned out to be an FBI sting. FBI agents on Wednesday morning arrested…
By Allan Lengel and Glynnesha Taylor ticklethewire.com Like father, like son? Not any more. Nathan Nicholson, the son of a high-ranking imprisoned CIA officer, avoided prison Tuesday as a result of his guilty plea in which he had agreed to cooperate against his father, the Oregonian newspaper reported. He was sentenced in federal court in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com While world-class Ponzi swindler Bernie Madoff sits in prison, the feds are still trying to figure out ways to get back some of the funds for investors. The latest came this week when federal authorities announced they had struck a deal with Carl Shapiro, 97, a Boston area businessman and philanthropist,…
