By The Washington Post Editorial Page WASHINGTON — RUMMAGING THROUGH a garbage can may yield important clues about an individual — from reading habits to monthly bills to telltale signs of drug abuse. The unglamorous technique has long been part of the investigative arsenal for a reason: It gets results. It should come as no…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The mystery surrounding the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X may remain just that — a mystery. The New York Times reports that the Justice Department has declined to reinvestigate the assassination. It said the statute of limitations had expired on any federal laws that might apply. “Although the Justice Department recognizes…
By Milton J. Valencia Boston Globe BOSTON — She is the United States attorney who barked back at former city councilor Chuck Turner, and it was her administration that convicted former House speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi, once one of the most powerful political figures in Massachusetts. US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz took office only 18…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-FBI agent John Wills, who recently published his third suspense novel, “Targeted”, won First Place in the fiction novel category at the 2011 Writing Competition held by the the Public Safety Writers Association in Las Vegas earlier this month. Wills, whose book “Targeted” was part of his “Chicago Warriors Thriller” series,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com You’ve got to figure most New York mobsters in their 80s have a rap sheet as long as the lunch line at the Carnegie Deli on 7th Avenue in Manhattan. Then there’s Nicholas Rizzo, 84, who was featured in a story on the website Gang Land News written by mob expert…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The House on Monday is expected to consider a bill that would extend FBI Director Mueller’s 10-year term two additional years, Fox News reported. The Senate last week gave a thumbs up to the bill, and the House is expected to easily pass the legislation. Mueller’s 10-year term expires this year,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The father of a man who plotted to blow up the New York subways was convicted Friday by a federal grand jury in Brooklyn of destroying bomb-making materials and conspiring to obstruct a federal investigation. The jury convicted Mohammed Wali Zazi, father of convicted terrorist Najibullah Zazi. Authorities charged that the…
