By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The mob world is full of irony. Jerry Capeci, mob expert, noted one of the latest on his website Gang Land News. Capeci wrote that act Colombo Crime boss Andrew (Mush) Russo, 77, has spent half a century as a “made man” and never once got shot. But that changed…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com An odd prosecution is taking place, the result of a Secret Service operation dubbed “Operation Crystal Ball.” Ten members of the family of the late Jimmy Marks, a leader in the Gypsy community, have been arrested in New York and Florida for fraudulently acquiring $40 million from victims seeking spiritual cleansing,…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com And now for more controversy about the failed ATF operation “Fast and Furious.” The LA Times reports today that the White House knew more than previously thought about the program. A Phoenix ATF supervisor specifically mentions the operation in at least one email to a White House national security officer, the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In the eyes of authorities, Luis Mijangos was a skilled computer hacker who went on the rampage and tried to extort sexually explicit videos from women and girls in what some referred to as a “sextortion” case. On Thursday, Mijangos ,32, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, who lived in Santa Ana,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There seems to be plenty blame to go around when it comes to the ill-thought out “Operation Fast and Furious”, ATF’s program that encouraged Arizona gun dealers to sell to straw purchasers, all with the hope of tracing the guns to the Mexican cartels. Some have already taken a hit as…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The controversial ATF program “Operation Fast and Furious” continues to generate plenty controversy. The latest: CBS News reports that Congressional investigators say the U.S. Attorney’s office in Arizona tried covering up a link between Fast and Furious and the murder in Arizona of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry last December. Two…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It was Sept. 26, 1981 when Donna Joan Borup showed up to an anti-apartheid rally at JFK Airport in Queens and allegedly tossed an acid-like substance into the eyes of Port Authority Police Officer Evan Goodstein. Goodstein ended up partially blind and had to resign from the force. Thirty years later,…
