By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI agents on Tuesday arrested the mayor of the border town of Nogales, Az., on public corruption charges including bribery, theft, fraud and money laundering, authorities said. Mayor Garcia Von Borstel, a Democrat, was arrested at his city hall office in the morning and search warrants were executed at his home,…
By Glynnesha Taylor ticklethewire.com Former New Jersey state Sen. Wayne R. Bryant, who is already serving a four year sentence on a public corruption conviction, was indicted Monday in another case involving allegations that he took $192,000 in bribes to support some major building projects, authorities said. Bryant, who represented New Jersey’s 5th District, was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean Cronin’s decision to take a little dip in the pool has created a major headache. The Miami Herald reports Cronin was arrested Sunday in Miami after a mother and young girl accused him of being indecent when he jumped into the pool at Finnegan’s River, a local…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — There’s longevity on the job, and then there’s John “Jack” C. Keeney. On Friday, the Justice Department held a retirement ceremony to mark the end of his 59-year career as the longest serving federal prosecutor in U.S. history. According to a Justice Department account of the event, as Keeney…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office is gearing up for an Oct. 18 trial in the slaying of intern Chandra Levy in 2001. The latest in the case came Monday when prosecutors told a D.C. Superior Court judge that Ingmar Guandique,29, the man charged in the murder, sexually assaulted a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI may be the nation’s premiere law enforcement agency — with a worldwide reputation — but in the end it’s made up of humans. And yes, humans do screw up. Over the years, we saw a drunk agent shoot up a freezer at a Las Vegas hotel. We…
Debra Evans Smith/fbi photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Debra Evans Smith, who worked on the high-profile spy case involving FBI agent Robert Hanssen, was named special agent in charge of the Administrative Division at FBI’s Washington Field Office, the agency announced Monday. Smith most recently served as a special assistant to FBI Director…
