By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ralph Boelter, head of the Minneapolis FBI, who headed up a large scale probe into counterterrorism involving local Somalis heading overseas to fight with a terrorist organization, is headed east to Washington to become the agency’s deputy assistant director in charge of counterterrorism, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported. Boelter told the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI may be the bigger of the two agencies, but that didn’t stop the Secret Service from defeating the bureau in annual hockey game in Arlington, Va. CNN reported that Secret Service defeated the FBI 7-6 in overtime at the Kettler Capital Iceplex. The FBI won last year….
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — Officials in the buttoned-down world of the Justice Department, accustomed to dull legal briefs and just-the-facts indictments, are getting a dose of steamy sex scenes on their reading list. That’s because assistant U.S. Attorney Allison Leotta, a D.C. sex crimes prosecutor, recently landed a three-book deal with…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9dZ0GK2pfg WEEKEND STORIES OF INTEREST Tip Yields Arrest in East Coast Rapist Case (Washington Post) SEC IG Investigating SEC Response to Madoff Case (Washington Post) Feds Add Charges in Arizona Shooting; Death Penalty May be in Play (Politics Daily) Relatives of Missing ex-FBI Agent Robert Levinson Thrilled He’s Alive (NY Daily News) Mob Wars Return…
By Justin Blum Bloomberg Derek Williams was working as a trash-truck driver when his cousin told him about K2, a product made from plant materials and chemicals that provided a legal, marijuana-like high. Williams saw his ticket out of the residential rubbish business: Make a better blend. He studied compounds that mimic the effects of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A team of investigators has cleared an FBI agent of any wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of a veteran last May 19 at the MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla. In a press release, the FBI stated that the agent, whose name was not released “operated within the scope of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A slice of history in Washington that included FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III is gone. The Friendship Barbershop at Wisconsin Avenue NW and Newark Street, where Mueller got his haircuts — shut down Feb. 26 to make room for a redevelopment project, according to WTOP radio. Not to…
