By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s fair to surmise that the FBI has a surplus of GPS devices that are just going to be sitting around. The Wall Street Journal reports that FBI General Counsel Andrew Weissmann said at a conference Friday that a Supreme Court ruling requiring a court order before placing a GPS on…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Add a new Jaguar sports car and over $34,000 to the coffers of FBI in Detroit. Those profits were seized during an ongoing investigation of the cash-strapped town of Pontiac, Mich., just north of Detroit, reports the Detroit News. The Jaguar was once Jumanne Sledge’s, a former Pontiac schools superintendent who…
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By Charlie Gasparino Fox Business News All of the good publicity flowing from the crackdown on insider trading has one of the nation’s top law enforcement officials looking at what he might do in the future, and he’s seeing a lot of green. Preet Bharara, the US Attorney for the Southern District, is telling friends…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With trial slated for May for ex-Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, expect things to heat up. The latest: The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Harrisburg, Pa., has subpoenaed records from the University about Sandusky, former Penn State President Graham Spanier, athletic director Tim Curley and former senior vice president Gary Schultz,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com For some citizens, it might be fun to fantasize about what it would be like to be an FBI agent. The key is to leave it at just that: a fantasy. That didn’t happen in Austin, Tex. Police there are trying to find out about anyone who might have been pulled…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Here’s another reminder how the real estate and banking world have suffered as a result of major acts of fraud. In San Diego, charges were unsealed on Tuesday against several real estate agents involved in a multi-million-dollar mortgage fraud scheme targeting “vulnerable, low-income immigrants” , according to a statement from the…
