By GINGER THOMPSON New York Times WASHINGTON — American law enforcement agencies have significantly built up networks of Mexican informants that have allowed them to secretly infiltrate some of that country’s most powerful and dangerous criminal organizations, according to security officials on both sides of the border. As the United States has opened new law…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Andrew Weissmann, a private lawyer who once served as the former director of the federal government’s Enron task force, and who also previously served as FBI Director Robert S. Mueller’s special counsel, will become the FBI’s new general counsel, according to the Am Law Daily reported. The publication reports that Weissman…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com And now for one of those black eyes that all police departments hate. Reuters reports that 8 New York cops were arrested Tuesday on fed charges for allegedly helping run a run a gun-smuggling ring in the city. Four others were also charged in the case. Reuters reported that the U.S….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The ad stripped across the bottom of USA Today’s Money section on Monday read: “Got Drugs? Turn in your unused or expired medication for safe disposal Saturday, October 29th.” The ad, an apparent play on the popular ad campaign “Got Milk?”, also appears on the top of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It was just a matter of time. Four months after the FBI captured Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger in California, word has surfaced that a movie will be made based on his life. The website Deadline New York reports that actors Ben Affleck and Matt Damon “are reuniting in their first…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some thoughts are better kept to yourself. That’s what Craig Allen Shepperd, 37, of Whitehall, Md., hopefully learned. Shepperd pleaded guilty to threatening to murder an ATF task force member pleaded guilty last Friday in Baltimore federal court. “ATF agents, along other federal, state, and local law enforcement officers put their…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In the heat of the moment, fed agents can say the darnest things. The website Talking Points Memo reports that the Tennessee chapter of the ACLU is suing Immigration and Customs Enforcement over an alleged warrantless raid on an apartment complex in Nashville in which an agent allegedly shouted, “we don’t…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com CHICAGO — This same time last year, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III was feeling a little nostalgic when he spoke in Orlando before the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference. It was like a final victory lap, the last speech as director before the group. But in a move…
