By DEBORAH BECKER and LISA TOBIN WBUR Radio BOSTON — When Bob Fitzpatrick was brought in as second-in-command of the Boston FBI office back in the early 1980s, it didn’t take him long to figure out something wasn’t right. “It was almost immediate upon my arrival,” he said. It would be 20 more years before…
By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com How many books have you read recently that actually changed your thinking on opinions you have held near and dear for decades? Not many, I wager. In my case, damn few. Like most people I read for entertainment, education, reinforcement, seldom to challenge firmly held views. As a three-decade drug prosecutor,…
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com How many books have you read recently that actually changed your thinking on opinions you have held near and dear for decades? Not…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sen. Chuck Grassley on Thursday issued a press release questioning “why the Justice Department declined to prosecute an Assistant United States Attorney after the department’s Inspector General found at least one image of child pornography on the attorney’s work computer.” Grassley said the Inspector General also determined that the attorney had…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Mexican man was sentenced to life in prison in San Diego Friday for striking and killing U.S. Border Patrol agent Luis Aguilar with a Hummer filled with drugs in January 2008 at California’s Imperial Sand Dunes, the Associated Press reported. Jesus Navarro testified during his two-week trial that he wasn’t…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com So much for awards. The DEA has busted Boynton Beach, Fla. cop David Britto, who was named “Officer of the Year” of his department last year, according to the website Gawker. The website reported that the DEA agents arrested Britto — a four year veteran of the force — on Tuesday…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The war of words is heating up between the Justice Department and key Republican Congressional members over the controversial ATF program known as Operation Fast and Furious. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) this week renewed accusations that the Justice Department is stonewalling a Congressional inquiry into the controversial gun program Operation Fast…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Russell Millin, who served as U.S. Attorney in western Missouri under President Kennedy in the 60s, and was known as “Mr. Clean”, died Monday of natural causes at age 88, the Kansas City Star reported. The Star reported in 1976 that Millin prosecuted more “big name criminals,” including mobsters, than any…
