By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com For those who like to vent about the greed of bankers, here’s more ammunition: Meet Gary Foster, the vice president in Citigroup, Inc.’s treasury finance department. Foster pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Brooklyn to bank fraud involving the theft of more than $22 million from Citigroup between September 2003…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is transferring two controversial weapons cases and a murder case out of Phoenix, news that comes after Phoenix’s U.S. Attorney Dennis K. Burke abruptly resigned late last month, CBS News reports. “The Department of Justice is giving a no-confidence vote to the US Attorney’s office in Arizona,” one…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Senator and two-time presidential candidate John Edwards, whose public image quickly turned to mud after news of his affair surfaced while his wife was dying of cancer, wants the criminal charges against him dismissed. Politico’s Josh Gerstein reports that Edward’s high-powered attorneys Abbe Lowell, Jim Cooney and Wade Smith filed a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Maryland scientist busted in an FBI sting in 2009 for attempting to spy for Israel, pleaded guilty Wednesday in D.C. federal court to one count of attempted espionage, the Associated Press reported. Stewart D. Nozette, 54, was charged in 2009 with giving sensitive government information to an undercover FBI agent…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The D.C. Appeals Court ruled against the Justice Department Wednesday, saying it must publicly disclose secret information about how and when the government gathers and uses cell phone location data to track certain criminal suspects, CNN reported. “The disclosure sought by the plaintiffs would inform this ongoing public policy discussion by…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com David Cuthbertson, head of the FBI’s El Paso Division, has been named assistant director of the Justice Information Services Division. Cuthbertson joined the FBI in 1988 and was assigned to the Cincinnati Division working motorcycle and violent street gangs and drug trafficking. In 1992, he transferred to the Dallas Division, where…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Associated Press has obtained confidential documents that show the New York cops collected intelligence on more than 250 mosques and Muslim student groups in and around New York. AP reported that the department used undercover officers and informants to canvas the Islamic population of New York. AP wrote that the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The feds worry that terrorist aren’t just looking at the big planes as a weapon to kill. ABC News reports that the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI issued a warning Friday about small planes, saying: “Violent extremists with knowledge of general aviation and access to small planes pose…
