By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI’s plan to expand the range of genetic markers that generate genetic profiles in their DNA database is bumping up against some criticism from scientists, reports the BBC. Dr. Bruce Budowle, a former senior scientist for the FBI, who helped create the current set of genetic markers-known as the Codis…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com LA County Sheriff Lee Bacca won’t be winning any managerial or humanitarian awards any time soon. Ticklethewire.com has reported on Baca before. He has been accused of allowing a culture of violence and inmate abuse run rampant in LA prisons. And the Sheriff previously expressed anger that the FBI smuggled a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal judge in Indianapolis has tossed a lawsuit by a local attorney who claimed FBI agents conspired with the former Delaware County prosecutor to frame him for a crime — namely bribing a witness in a client’s case, according to the Muncie Star Press In July 2010, attorney Michael J….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com You needn’t go to the oddsmakers in Vegas to predict whether the anthrax case will be reopened for a fresh examination. Just ask Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Ia.). Grassley, one of several politicians who have been skeptical of the FBI findings that government scientist Bruce Ivins sent the letters, said it would…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mexican drug dealers are getting pretty darn imaginative when it comes to using tunnels at the border. ABC News reports that authorities found smugglers had dug more than a dozen tunnels at the border in Nogales, Az, that opened up right under a parking lot with meters. ABC reported…
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Using “mob turncoats” to testify in court doesn’t always work. It comes down to credibility. Apparently, jurors weren’t buying what “mob turncoat” John Alite was selling as a star prosecution witness in the the fourth and final unsuccessful trial in 2009 against his ex-best friend, John (Junior) Gotti, son of the late…
