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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A man nicknamed the “Talib Islam” was sentenced to 28 years in prison after pleading guilty Monday to attempting to bomb the federal courthouse in Springfield, Ill., in September 2009, authorities said. Michael C. Finton, 31, a U.S. citizen from Decatur, Ill., was busted in an FBI sting. He was sentenced…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is going after another major police department. Nearly a year after it announced plans to look into questionable practices of the New Orleans Police Department, Justice officials on Monday said they were setting their sites on the Newark Police force. Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Perez and U.S….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – More than six months after a U.S. Virgin Islands judge tossed out the controversial murder charges against ATF agent Will Clark, the agency appears in no rush to put agents back there. As a protest, ATF had withdrawn its agents from the Virgin Islands shortly after Clark had been…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com One hundred retired FBI agents — including two deputy directors — aren’t giving up their fight to try and exonerate and free convicted ex-Boston agent John J. Connolly Jr., whose relationships with the Boston mob landed him in big trouble. The Los Angeles’s Times Richard Serrano reported that the agents, known…
UPDATE: Monday, 4:30 p.m.: The U.S. Bureau of Prisons said that Camp was released from prison this afternoon. By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com U.S. District Judge Jack Camp Jr. of Atlanta, who created a big scandal after carrying on an affair with a stripper and getting busted for drugs in an FBI sting, is scheduled to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-FBI officials Kathleen McChesney and William Gavin become the latest ex-agents to pen a book. The two have teamed up to write a book — “Pick Up Your Own Brass: Leadership the FBI Way”, which offers 50 ” essential leadership lessons based on challenges that FBI officials have faced over the…
