By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sylvester Stallone as the mob Godfather John Gotti? Forgeddabout it! The Wrap, a Hollywood website, reports that “John “Junior” Gotti wants Sylvester Stallone to stop telling people he’ll play his father, legendary mob boss John Gotti, in a movie based on his life — a charge Sly denies.” But the Wrap…
By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent at the Atlanta airport was charged with 13 others in a large scale drug operation in which authorities seized 700,000 tabs of ecstasy, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. Authorities say that agent Devon “Romey” Samuel, 45, of Stockbridge, Ga., was charged in three undercover…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Palestinian man pleaded guilty Thursday in Miami in a plot to acquire and transport stolen military weapons in what turned out to be an FBI sting. Abdalaziz Aziz Hamayel, 23, of the West Bank, pleaded guilty to trying to buy from an undercover agent what he thought were stolen M-16s,…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News Federal authorities have seized two Julian Falat paintings stolen by the Nazis during World War II from New York auction houses, with the hope of returning the national treasures to the Polish government. The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today that it had filed a civil forfeiture complaint on Wednesday…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Last year, al Qaeda supposedly sent the “Underwear Bomber” on a plane Christmas Day. This year? The Associated Press reports that captured insurgents told Iraqi authorities that al Qaeda is planning suicide attacks in the U.S. and Europe during the holiday season. AP reported that a senior US intelligence…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI is assisting police in Long Island into what may end up being a serial killer case. Four female bodies have been found in recent days on a Long Island Beach. FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said in a statement Wednesday that the bureau “has offered assistance in the case. This…
By The Los Angeles Times Editorial Page From Abscam to the arrest of former Washington Mayor Marion Barry on drug charges, sting operations have brought accusations that the government was entrapping its targets. This perennial complaint has acquired a new sensitivity with charges that the FBI, as part of its anti-terrorism activities, is inducing Muslims…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Dallas FBI agent was sentenced Wednesday to two years probation and ordered to pay a $18,000 fine for unlawfully employing illegal immigrants at a deli she owned in suburban Dallas, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Ann Cox, who was fired in the summer after the U.S. Attorney’s Office filed charges, …
