By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com From reputed Jamaican drug lord Christopher Coke to notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan has become aggressively global, indicting international figures from around the world, the New York Times reports. Since 2004, the Times’ Ben Weiser reports that the office has sent prosecutors to 25-plus…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — James F. Yacone, a decorated Army combat veteran who was portrayed in the movie “Black Hawk Down”, and who last served as section chief in the Critical Incident Response Group for the FBI, has been named head of the bureau’s Denver office, the FBI and the Denver Post reported….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s off to prison for ex-FBI agent Carlos Ortiz Jr. who threatened to harm his estranged wife — an FBI analyst — and the head of the Dallas FBI. Chief U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater in Dallas on Friday sentenced Carlos, 49, to two years in prison after he pleaded…
By MICHAEL CIEPLY New York Times LOS ANGELES — Larry Cohen has issues — 17 pages’ worth — with “J. Edgar,” the movie now being shot here by Clint Eastwood for Imagine Entertainment and Warner Brothers with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role as J. Edgar Hoover. Mr. Cohen is a writer and director who…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It could be prison time for a former Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Bridget McCafferty in Ohio, who was convicted on Friday in federal court of 10 counts of lying to the FBI, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported. Authorities charged that she lied to agents investigating a political ally, then-County Auditor…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI is trying to keep the unsolved 2001 murder of Seattle federal prosecutor Thomas Crane Wales out in the public eye. The latest: The FBI has posted on its website a summary of the case along with Wales’ photo and reminder that the Justice Department is offering up to a…
By Charlie Savage New York Times WASHINGTON — Within months after the Bush administration relaxed limits on domestic-intelligence gathering in late 2008, the F.B.I. assessed thousands of people and groups in search of evidence that they might be criminals or terrorists, a newly disclosed Justice Department document shows. In a vast majority of those cases,…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wr8YjpHW1A Here are some examples of the individuals and organizations selected to receive the award. An Arkansas woman who became a tireless advocate for the elderly after members of her family experienced nursing home abuse; An organization in Buffalo that provided resources and assistance to victims who came to light during an FBI human trafficking…
