By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – Game One of the 2003 World Series at Yankee Stadium; All expense paid trip. Priceless? Only when you don’t get caught. Fraser C. Verrusio, 41, a former staff member for Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), who was then-chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, was convicted Thursday after a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Seal Beach, Calif. woman is in big trouble for allegedly posing as an FBI agent. The Associated Press reports that Karen Elaine Hanover, who allegedly posed as an agent, had a real estate service that charged clients $30,000 to provide commercial property information. AP reported that some disenchanted clients unhappy…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Mike Stenger, the wise-cracking, New Jersey bred, 35-year veteran of the U.S. Secret Service whose protective details included President Reagan, Jesse Jackson and Egypt President Anwar Sadat, is hanging up his badge and gun. Friday is his last day. At a retirement party Thursday at Secret Service headquarters in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III emphasized Thursday that the cyberworld has dramatically changed the landscape when it comes to theft of intelligence and money. “You have probes and capabilities of intruding into networks..that previously you had to recruit somebody inside to obtain, which makes it much easier for…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — ATF has lost a good friend on Capitol Hill. Rep. Chris Lee (R-N.Y.), who forcefully and repeatedly made public statements defending ATF agent Will Clark, who was charged with murder in the Virgin Islands, abruptly resigned Wednesday in the wake of a scandal. A judge eventually the dismissed the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — If Las Vegas were to place odds on all this, it would appear increasingly that the odds would be against the Justice Department building a solid espionage case against the ever-controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Perez and Julian Barnes, citing officials familiar with the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Cross burnings which once symbolized the pervasive racism in parts of the South decades ago, is apparently not a thing of the past, and apparently knows no boundaries. The Justice Department on Wednesday announced that Michael Francis Bealonis,19, of Robinson, Pa. pleaded guilty in federal court in Pittsburgh to burning a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former Washington area federal prosecutor who helped put away some key spies including CIA double-agent Aldrich Ames, died this past weekend of colon cancer, the Washington Post reported. He was 53. Mark J. Hulkower, 53, worked at the U.S. Attorney’s office in Alexandria, Va.,from 1989 to 1995 and went into…
