Authorities Investigating NY Car Bomb Release Video
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Investigators Find NY Bomb Plot May Have Foreign Ties (AOL News) Car Used in Car Bomb Had Been Sold in Cash Deal (NY Times)
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Book Review:”Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America’s most Wanted Gangster”
The very able author Jonathan Eig, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, who has written books on baseball legends Jackie Robinson and Lou Gehrig , has now written about another type of legend, and a ruthless one at that: Al Capone. It details his colorful life and how the feds brought him down. Here’s the…
Justice Dept. Reviewing FBI Policy on Recording Interviews
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — In a practice that has long been a contentious issue, a Justice Department advisory committee is reviewing the FBI practice of memorializing interviews with suspects in handwritten notes rather than recordings, the website Main Justice is reporting. The website reported that the issue has become pronounced since an increasing…
UPDATE: Video Shows White Man in 40s Suspiciously Walking Away from Area of NY Car Bomb
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com New York law enforcement investigators on Sunday were looking at a surveillance tape that showed a white man in his 40s who appeared to be walking away from the area where a car bomb was placed Saturday evening in Times Square, looking over his shoulder and removing a layer of clothing,…
FBI and NYPD Hunt For Culprit Who Left Crude Car Bomb in Times Square
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI and New York police were trying to find out Sunday who left a Nissan Pathfinder with a crude bomb inside in Times Square Saturday night that prompted the evacuation of parts of the city on a busy Saturday night. FBI agent Richard Kolko, a spokesman for the FBI in…
Justice Dept. Won’t Appeal $101.7 Mil Verdict for 4 Framed by Boston FBI in 1965 Murder
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has decided not to appeal a $101.7 million civil suit award to four men framed by the FBI in a Boston area murder, the Boston Globe reported. U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner ruled in 2007 that the FBI was “responsible for the framing of four innocent men’’ in…
A Ponzi Scheme and a Little Humor
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement is serious business. But once in a while a little federal type humor surfaces in places you might least expect. Good friend and former Washington Post colleague Cindy Loose, who lives in the Washington area, passed on this true story to me the other day. I…
Ex-Chicago FBI Agent Lead Double Life as a Gangster
Vo Duong Tran was an American success story who escaped Communist Vietnam as a kid and grew up to be an FBI agent. Problem was, he was crooked. Reporter Steve Warmbir of the Chicago Sun-Times tells the story of an FBI agent gone bad. Tran was recently sentenced to 30 years in prison for planning…