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…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Dawn Strobel was working as a DEA agent with a local High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area in 2006 in Indiana when a colleague outed her as gay to her boss, William Wells, according to the Post-Tribune newspaper. Wells then told the Army Reserves, where Strobel had served since 2001. The Reserves…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More bad publicity for the Transportation Security Administration. Three of its agents, along with a police officer and a state trooper were among 20 people arrested in connection with an interstate prescription drug ring that shipped oxycodone to New York and Connecticut from Florida and relayed the profits back to Florida,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Leonardo DiCaprio and director Clinton Eastwood for J. Edgar seem to be very circumspect when discussing FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s sexuality and their film on Hoover that is set to be released in November. The film is called “J. Edgar.” USA Today reports that in an interview in GQ magazine…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has assigned two agents to work full time in the New Orleans Police Department’s internal affairs unit, another move in a concerted effort to unearth corruption in the troubled department, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported. “It’s the right thing to do at the right time,” said David Welker, special…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Is there even more about the Saudi connection to 9/11 that we didn’t know about? Well, ex-Sen. Bob Graham, former co-chair of a Congressional inquiry after the September 11, 2001, seems to think so and is calling for the U.S. government to reopen its probe in wake of a news report…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Good news for the feds. Bad news for Kwame Kilpatrick, the ex- “hip hop mayor” of Detroit, who is eye-brow deep in legal trouble. Derrick Miller, 41, a Kilpatrick confidante who worked as the city’s Chief Administrative Officer, pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to corruption and tax charges and agreed…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The feds in Miami are taking aim at some big guys in the drug world. Authorities filed charges against Daniel Barrera-Barrera, an international drug smuggler with alleged ties to terrorist groups in Columbia, reports the Miami Herald. The report calls Barrera-Barrera, 42, one of Columbia’s most-wanted, and says he “maintains a partnership with…
