By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com This would have been what we call a career-ending move. Former U.S. Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine says in his new book that he almost shot President Lyndon B. Johnson hours after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the Associated Press reported. Blaine writes in his book “The Kennedy Detail” that he was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sometimes in order to find the answer, you have to dig deep — literally. That’s what the FBI was doing Tuesday in Long Island: Digging for the remains of a reputed Colombo mobster killed 15 years ago, the New York Daily News reports. The paper reported that is looking for the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A Northern Virginia man who found little humor in the animated show “South Park”, and wished death to its creators on the Internet, is scheduled to plead guilty to supporting Somali terrorists, the Washington Post reports. The paper reports that Zachary Adam Chesser, 20, of Bristow, Va., will plead…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 57-year-old Michigan man has been hit with a three year prison term for impersonating an FBI agent, the Daily Tribune reported. The paper reported that U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds in Detroit sentenced Kevin Balfour of Warren, Mi, a Detroit suburb, earlier this month. The paper reported the man impersonated…
Allan Lengel, editor of ticklethewire.com, covered the first two years of the Chandra Levy investigation for the Washington Post. By Allan Lengel For AOL News In a law office in an upscale section of Los Angeles, an unfinished yet potentially explosive book manuscript by a controversial figure, former U.S. Rep. Gary Condit, sits in a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Jordanian national caught in an FBI sting in which he plotted to blow up a Dallas skyscraper in September 2009, was sentenced Tuesday to 24 years in prison. Authorities charged that Hosam Maher Husein Smadi drove a truck containing a fake bomb provided by the FBI to the Fountain Place,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Good news for the Miami fed prosecutor who was arrested after jumping into a pool in his boxers: You’re no longer in hot water. The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office has decided not to formally charge Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean Cronin, the Miami Herald reported. The paper reported that Assistant State Attorney…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com This was not the smartest of schemes. And because of that, U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte on Monday sentenced former Prince George’s County Police officer Eddie Lee Smith, Jr., 42, of Maryland to two years and six months in prison. He was also ordered to pay $10,170.94 in restitution for…
