By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III said Friday that tentacles of organized crime go far beyond the shores of the U.S. and is an international menace. “Some believe that organized crime is a thing of the past,” Mueller said during a speech before the Citizens Crime Commission of New York. “Unfortunately,…
Mohamad Hammoud/mecklenburg co. sheriff’s photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com They say federal judges have plenty powers, and in fact, they can make a century or more disappear with the snap of a finger. That’s just what happened Thursday when U.S. District Judge Graham Mullen in Charlotte, N.C. reduced the 155 year sentence of Hezbollah supporter…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ronald Kessler of Newmax.com writes that Secret Service agents on President Reagan’s detail say the 40th president “was sharp until several years after he left the presidency”, contrary to what son Ron wrote in his latest book. “We had a hundred twenty agents on his detail, and he seemed to remember…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More details are surfacing about the mysterious bomb that was found along the parade route of the MLK Day parade in Spokane, Wash. on Jan. 17. CNN reports that the bomb contained rat poisoning and metal shrapnel, all designed to maximize damage. The Spokesman-Review reported that the rat poison is used…
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By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — In an agency with thousands of employees, some in the FBI are bound to step over the line. CNN obtained summaries of internal disciplinary reports by the agency’s Office of Professional Responsibility dating back to January 2008. The reports detail wrongdoing by employees including lying, drunken driving,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal authorities claim U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent Andrew Rodriguez of Minnesota tried to get a transfer to the southern border by telling a big lie to federal investigators. On Thursday, an indictment was unsealed charging Rodriguez, 29, of East Grand Folks, Minn., with making a false statement to the…
By Tom Jackman Washington Post Staff Writer Salvador Portillo-Saravia, a member of the MS-13 street gang, was charged with raping an 8-year-old girl at her Fairfax County (Va.) home last month. But he never should have been in Fairfax in the first place. Federal officials deported Portillo-Saravia, of Sterling, to El Salvador in 2003, and…
