By Bruce Golding New York Post The sins of the father are growing — thanks to his son. John “Junior” Gotti plans to pin four more murders on his late crime-boss dad, according to the script of an upcoming biopic. Junior claims the future “Dapper Don” impersonated an NYPD detective during the previously unknown revenge…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Earlier this week the Portland Police Bureau Drugs and Vice Division (DVD) and the DEA received information about a large amount of drugs headed to Portland. On Wednesday, officers raided three area homes in what the police department described as its biggest drug bust ever. Officers found “28 pound of heroin, 2 pounds…
Anthony Riggio is a former lawyer who went on to work for the FBI for 24 years. He held a number of posts during that time including assistant special agent in charge of the Detroit office. He retired in 1995 as a senior executive at FBI headquarters. His column is in response to a ticklethewire.com story about…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Paul Lindsay, the hard-digging FBI agent who became a prolific author, and wrote seven novels — the last two of which were N.Y. Times best sellers — died peacefully Thursday night at a Boston hospital of pneumonia with his family by his side. He was 68. The ex-Marine, who friends kidded…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Russian immigrant Dmitry Yakolev may have been a trained surgeon, but federal authorities say he used his hands to do more than good deeds. In fact, the feds say he was involved in identity theft, bank fraud and credit card theft involving three people they suspect he murdered over several years….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Something simply doesn’t jive if the the press reports are to believed. The Miami Herald reported Thursday that Steve Ibison, head of the Tampa FBI, said the agency found no connection between the 9/11 terrorist attacks and a Saudi family who abandoned their Saraosta, Fla. home and new car several days…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An FBI presentation at Quantico, Va., to agents that negatively portrayed devout Muslims, has been discontinued, the Associated Press reported Thursday. AP, citing a federal law enforcement official, said the lecture was given for just three days in April. One part of the lecture contended that the more devout Muslim are,…
