By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Secret Service has its rules. As a result, the lone black firefighter at the Midtown firehouse — Engine 54, Ladder Company 4 — visited by President Obama on Thursday wasn’t allowed to be there, the New York Times reported. ”Secret Service only wanted the people that were working that tour…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The white-powder scare always seems to stir up a frenzy. The FBI said Friday it was following up on white powder letters that were mailed to 29 schools throughout Washington, D.C. on Thursday and some additional ones on Friday. The letters contained the words “AL AQEDA-FBI.” The material proved…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mobster Anthony “Tony D” Palumbo of the Genovese crime family was sentenced Thursday in Manhattan federal court to 10 years in prison for “murder conspiracy” that included a plot to bump off a hitman for the Russian mob. Palumbo, a soldier and an “acting capo” in the Genovese family, pleaded guilty…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — As his 10-year term comes to an end, rumors and speculation are popping up as to what FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III will do in life. People who know Mueller say one thing is for certain: He won’t be getting a white belt and white shoes and heading…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Materials seized during the raid in Pakistan over the weekend may provide insights into al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden — and then some. USA Today reports that some materials seized during the Pakistan raid suggests bin Laden still had a hand in providing strategic guidance terrorists. The paper…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Expect to see more names added to the U.S. terrorist list as a result of evidence snatched in Pakistan during the Osama bin Laden mission last weekend. That’s what Atty. General Eric Holder Jr said Wednesday in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to CNN. “The material that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI agents on Wednesday shot and killed an armed man at an Oklahoma state park, who was wanted in connection with the bombing of a Florida mosque in May of 2010, the TV station News 9 reported. Authorities identified the man as Sandlin Matthew Smith, 46, of St. John’s County, Fla….
