By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. terrorist data base watch could get quite a few new names if it’s up to four Jewish Congress members. The Jewish Telegraph Agency reports that the four Congress members wrote to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton asking that they place…
By Danny Fenster ticklethwire.com They say things are bigger in Texas, and a recent Tex-Mex plate of indictments and potential sentences certainly are. A group of members and associates of the Texas Mexican Mafia (TMM) have been indicted with a buffet of charges that may net them decades in prison, the FBI announced in a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Bye Bye Viktor Bout. A federal jury in New York on Wednesday convicted the international arms dealer, whose life inspired the Nicholas Cage film “Lord of War.” The Justice Department said Bout was convicted of conspiring to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de…
By Jeff Stein Spy Talk WASHINGTON –A business partner of the self-appointed spy who stole hundreds of Occupy Wall Street emails last month and posted them online was convicted of using excessive force as a Secret Service agent, court records show, and sentenced to six months incarceration in a halfway house. Kevin Schatzle lists himself…
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By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com John Kerry has joined others in urging the federal government to pay the families of two men allegedly killed by James “Whitey” Bulger, the notorious gangster and FBI informant, reports Boston.com. As reported in ticklethewire.com previously, Rep. William R. Keating, a Democrat of Massachusetts, has already urged the government to pay the families…
By BROOKS BARNES New York Times LOS ANGELES — To transform himself into an aging J. Edgar Hoover, Leonardo DiCaprio sat for hours at a time while makeup artists gave him liver spots, yellow teeth and big, bulbous love handles. He spends a good chunk of Clint Eastwood’s film “J. Edgar” that…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Army Times is reporting on an ongoing FBI investigation of an Alaska-stationed soldier on suspicion of espionage. Spc. William Colton Millay,22, a military cop, was taken into custody last Friday in the early morning hours, while the FBI and Army Counterintelligence continued to investigate, the paper reported. Lt. Col. Bill…
