By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Randall C. Thysse of the FBI’s global counterintelligence section at headquarters has been named special agent in charge of the New York Office’s Counterintelligence Division. Thysse joined the FBI in 1989 and was first stationed in the Omaha Division’s Des Moines Resident Agency. He later went to headquarters as…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some criminal politicians are disgraceful right up to the end. Take former Massachusetts State Senator Dianne Wilkerson who was sentenced Thursday in Boston federal court to 3 1/2 years in prison for taking $23,000 in bribes to help secure a liquor license for a nightclub and for legislation to grease the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com The FBI is investigating the death of a Mexican teen who died Wednesday in a shooting involving a U.S. border patrol agent in Nogales along the Arizona-Mexico border, Reuters reported. The Sonora, Mexican police said Ramses Barron, 17, was found dead outside a hospital in Nogales, Sonora on Wednesday with a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — An ex-CIA officer involved in a classified clandestine operation involving Iran was arrested Thursday in St. Louis on charges of leaking classified information to a reporter, the Justice Department announced. Jeffrey A. Sterling, 43, of O’Fallon, Mo., was charged with six counts of unauthorized disclosure of national defense information,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Authorities say a Pennsylvania man carrying a loaded gun bit two FBI agents who tried to restrain him outside a fast food restaurant after he appeared to be reaching for his weapon, the Associated Press reported. The agents arrested Emerson Begolly, 21, in New Bethlehem, Pa., outside of Pittsburgh, on Tuesday,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Let’s face it, we seldom expect an IRS employee to cheat on their taxes. And then get caught? Well….meet Albert Bront. Bront, an IRS revenue agent, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Los Angeles federal court to filing false tax returns for himself and innocent relatives, who were duped, authorities said. He claimed,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In response to a string of FBI stings around the country involving terrorist suspects, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III on Wednesday defended the tactic, calling it “absolutely essential” to public safety, according to the Associated Press. “We have been tremendously successful in thwarting attacks,” Mueller said at a news conference…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Attorney Gen. Ramsey Clark, who served on Saddam Hussein’s defense team, and has seldom shied away from controversy, was in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday for what the Associated Press described as a “solidarity mission.” AP reported that on the first day of the three-day trip Clark met with Hamas Prime…
