By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Inspector General for the Securities and Exchange Commission discovered a big no no: A lawyer for the SEC allegedly disclosed the name of a confidential source in an FBI probe to a witness in the case, the Washington Post reported. The Post’s David Hilzenrath reports that a SEC…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — For realism, apparently Atty. General Eric Holder Jr. feels the acclaimed HBO show “The Wire” can’t be beat. In fact, Holder, who is a big fan of the show that ended in 2008 after five hit seasons, wants the creators David Simons and Ed Burns to start it up…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com South Florida isn’t just the home of white belts, white shoes, early bird specials and transplanted New York mobsters. The Miami Herald reports that the Eastern European mob has become a big concern for the FBI — bigger than the Italian mafia. “Eurasian organized crime is our No. 1 priority,” FBI…
By Sebastian Rotella ProPublica CHICAGO—Confessed terrorist David Coleman Headley was so eager to cooperate after his 2009 arrest that he worked with FBI agents to try to engineer the capture of a suspected mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks and proposed setting up another kingpin for a missile strike, according to testimony in federal court…
