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…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An eclectic mix of folks showed up Wednesday in federal court in Boston to see James “Whitey” Bulger including former U.S. Attorney Donald K. Stern, who insisted on indicting the Boston mobster in 1995 even after the FBI warned him that Bulger was an informant, the Boston Globe reported. “I couldn’t…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s not the crime of the century. Nonetheless, it’s prison time for Michael Plank, 42, of Lomita, Calif., who was sentenced Wednesday in Los Angeles federal court to 15 months behind bars for smuggling 15 lizards from Australia into the United States. Essentially, he got one month in prison for every…
By Allan Lengel tickletheiwre.com Ken Melson, acting head of ATF, apparently was singing to Congressional investigators over the 4th of July weekend — and apparently not the Star Spangled Banner. Fox News reported that Melson told Congressional investigators that the Justice Department was interfering with the Congressional probe into the controversial program Operation Fast and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Somali militant with ties to al Qaeda was interrogated aboard a U.S. Navy ship for two months by a High Value Interrogation team that included FBI agents, the LA Times reported. The Times noted that it was the first time the Obama administration detained a terrorism suspect outside of the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Computer geeks are wreaking so much havoc we may soon have to have prison just for geeks. The latest: The FBI has busted Jason Cornish, 37, of Smyrna, Ga., with hacking into a New Jersey pharmaceutical company’s computer network and shutting down operations, resulting in losses of at least $300,000, according…
