Feds Bust Dozens in Calif., Colo. & Fla. Associated With “Amernian Power Gang”
Armenian Power Gang Targeted in Raid: MyFoxLA.com
February 16, 2011
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Ex-FBI Employee Pleads in Scheme to Steal About $80,000 in Evidence
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An ex-FBI employee in Indiana pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Hammond in connection with the theft of about $80,000 in evidence from the agency’s storage vault, according to the website nwi.com. Melissa Sims, 36, of Lowell,Ind., who worked as a evidence control technician at the bureau’s Merrillville office in…
1 Deputy U.S. Marshal Shot and Killed and 2 Others Wounded in W. Virginia; Suspect is Killed
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com One deputy U.S. marshal was shot and killed and two others were wounded in Elkins, West Virginia on Wednesday morning while trying to serve an arrest warrant for a man who failed to show up for a court appearance on charges of drugs and weapons, the Charleston Gazette reported. Authorities shot…
Column: Public Hearing on Anthrax Case May be Inevitable
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Though the FBI and Justice Department are thoroughly convinced that scientist Bruce Ivins mailed the deadly anthrax letters in 2001, it seems almost inevitable now that some very costly and protracted public hearing will be conducted to review the whole case. Unfortunately, Ivins killed himself in July 2008 before…
Set Back in FBI Probe into Murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In what appears to be a major setback, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Phoenix has concluded that three men arrested in connection with the December fatal shooting of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in Arizona were not involved in the shootout, the Arizona Republic reported. The paper reported that all…
Swindler Madoff Says Banks and Hedge Funds Knew He was Up to No Good
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Swindler Bernie Madoff, the king of Ponzi scams, told the New York Times that his family new nothing about his crimes, and that banks and hedge funds were “complicit” in his fraud and knew he was up to no good. From prison on North Carolina, Madoff said banks and hedge funds…