Paul Lindsay was never a shy character in his days with the FBI. And he created controversy with his first book in 1992 while he was still an agent in Detroit. He has since retired. He has 7 novels to his name. Not bad. Book was written under the pseudonym Noah Boyd By Jim Sullivan…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Boston U.S. Attorney is stepping into the wild and crazy world of Amy Bishop, the Alabama prof who went on a shooting rampage. The Boston Globe reports that U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz said her office will review its 1993 probe into the two pipe bombs that were mailed to a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI in New Orleans appears to making headway in its probe into the shootings of six people on Danziger Bridge just after Hurricane Katrina hit. The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports that recently retired New Orleans police Lt. Michael Lohman, who helped investigate the shootings, but was not involved with them,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Indecision in Washington? Hard to believe. Washington Post columnist Al Kamen reports that there’s “still no decision on a deputy attorney general. Apparently the powers that be cannot agree on a candidate.” “A new name has emerged, our colleague Carrie Johnson reports,” Kamen reports. “It’s American University law school professor Dan…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As any local or federal prosecutor in urban America can tell you, witness intimidation is a big problem. In fact, in Baltimore, a gang member made some popular videos warning people not to “snitch”. And tv shows like HBO’s popular “The Wire” show the downfall of snitching: death. That being said,…
Leonard Levitt wrote the column “One Police Plaza” for the newspaper Newsday about the New York City police department. Before joining Newsday, he worked as a reporter for the Associated Press and the Detroit News, as a correspondent for Time Magazine, and as the investigations editor of the New York Post. By Leonard Levitt Huffington…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire Elizabeth A. Fries, special assistant to the associate deputy director at FBI headquarters, is taking over the agency’s Louisville division as special agent in charge. Fries joined the FBI in 1991 and was first assigned to the Indianapolis Division where she worked a variety of cases including public corruption and bank…
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