2010
FBI Arrests 64-Year-Old Man in Wash. State For Threatening Senator Over Health Care
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI arrested a 64-year-old man on Tuesday morning at his home outside Yakima, Wash., for allegedly threatening Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) in response to the health care vote, the FBI said. Authorities charged in a criminal complaint that Charles Alan Wilson of Selah, Wash., made a series of threatening…
LA Feds Indict 2 Cops for Using Taser Guns on Handcuffed Victims
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal authorities in Los Angeles have indicted one current police officer and a former one with the Desert Hot Springs Police Department with civil rights violations for allegedly using Taser guns to stun three victims, two of whom were in handcuffs. Police Officer Anthony Sclafani, 40,…
Trial Begins In El Paso for FBI Agent Charged With Illegal Gun Sales and Providing ATF With False Records
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Trial started Monday in EL PASO for an FBI agent charged with illegally selling about 50 guns for more than $118,000 without a license, the El Paso Times reported. FBI Agent John Thomas Shipley, 40, faces six counts of selling firearms without a license from 2005 to 2008. The paper reported…
President Ford Approved Warrantless Wiretaps in 1974
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — President Gerald Fold authorized the FBI to use domestic warrantless wiretaps in 1974, according to the website WIRED. The website, which cites a classified memo recently obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting, says Ford signed a Dec. 19, 1974 memo giving his approval “just one month before the…
Justice Dept. Prosecutor Eli Rosenbaum Still Hunting Nazis
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Many of them are dead and gone. Some are elderly and sickly. But Justice Department prosecutor Eli Rosenbaum, director of the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations, continues to hunt down the elderly Nazis in the U.S. “We’ve sent a loud, clear message that the U.S. is not willing…
Ex-FBI Agent Claims Supervisor Sabotaged Efforts to Reclaim Stolen Art
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Retired FBI agent Robert K. Wittman claims in his upcoming book that his efforts to reclaim stolen art from the biggest art heist in U.S. history was undermine by a supervisor, the Boston Globe reports. The Globe reports that Wittman makes his claim in his yet to be released book: “Priceless:…