Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com This week marks the 40th anniversary of J. Edgar Hoover’s death, and in his honor the FBI website is running a series of tributes to its controversial former director. Hoover was the only civil servant to lie in state in the U.S. capitol, at the request of Congress in 1972. Then-President Richard…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com U.S. Navy SEALS took out the worlds’ foremost terrorist when they killed Osama bin Laden one year ago. But they also scored the largest batch of senior terrorist material in history, and Thursday we saw the release of 17 of those letters, portraying al Qaeda as an organization on the edge. The…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com The inevitable has arrived. Ex-Rep. William Jefferson of cash-in-the-freezer fame is heading off to prison Friday in Beaumont, Tex. to begin serving his 13-year sentence, Bruce Alpert, star reporter for the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported. He was sentenced 2 1/2 years ago, but stayed out of prison pending his appeal. In March,…
The final of three installments on an immigrant who was wrongly convicted of terrorism in Detroit and how he went on to live the American dream. In case you missed the first two articles of this series, you can find those here, Terrorism and the American Dream: Part I Terrorism and the American Dream:…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Incidents like this remind us of the dangers of being in law enforcement. Three Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were shot and wounded Thursday morning around 4 a.m. while executing a search warrant in Petaluma, outside of San Francisco, reported KABC. The agents suffered non-life threatening wounds, the station reported. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A California Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was shot to death in Los Angeles County Wednesday and his 14-year-old was arrested on suspicion of murder, the LA Times reported. The Times reported that the agent was killed by a single bullet that was fired into their Carson, Calif., home from the…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com DETROIT — The Justice Department on Wednesday announced that it had charged 107 people including nurses, doctors and social workers in a nationwide crackdown on Medicare fraud in seven cities involving a staggering $452 million in false billing. As part of the crackdown, 22 people were charged in Detroit with fraud involving…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Football has seen better weeks. Three former pro football players were among those arrested in a Florida tax ring this week that involved an FBI sting, reported CBS News from Miami yesterday. The FBI set up an undercover cash checking store in North Miami and the three cashed about $500,000 in fraudulent refund…
