By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com On the big screen and on TV, sometimes we forget the twisted plots aren’t simply made up, but actually come from real situations in the wiseguy world. Here’s a real story worthy of the big screen involving a mob hit and a secret recording in which an FBI audio expert accidentally…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has a new Inspector General. The US. Senate on Thursday confirmed the confirmation of Michael Horowitz. The Senate also confirmed Kathryn Keneally as Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division. “I’m confident Kathryn and Michael will provide strong leadership to the department, and will play an instrumental role…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More than a year after being nominated by the White House, the Senate on Thursday confirmed the appointment of Thomas Harrigan as the number two person at DEA. “I cannot think of a better, more qualified, or more honorable person to have at my side than Special Agent Tom Harrigan as…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s never good when you hit your father. It’s really bad when he’s partially blind. The Vindicator newspaper reports that Sheila Lawson, 46, a former FBI agent, was arrested on the east side of Youngstown, Ohio after allegedly assaulting her father. The paper reports that Lawson hit her father because he…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two San Diego men were busted for impersonating FBI agents in a scheme to shake down a woman out of more than $200,000. NBC San Diego reports that the men posed as agents and told a woman that she was a victim of a fraud by her bank. They directed her…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The man who once headed up the FBI office in Puerto Rico has been named the new chief of the Puerto Rico police department. The Associated Press reports that Hector Pesquera comes just hours after police chief Emilio Diaz Colon resigned a head of the 17,000 member force. He was first…
