June 1, 2012
Ex-ICE Official Sentenced to 2 Years After Lying and Scamming Agency
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former official for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was sentenced Friday in Los Angeles to two years in prison and ordered to pay $400,000 in restitution for obstruction of justice, giving false information to a federal prosecutor and a federal judge in Florida, and devising a scheme to…
Exciting Ride for Head of Detroit FBI: Going to Head Crime Commission
By Allan Lengel For Deadline Detroit DETROIT — On Christmas day in 2009, Andrew Arena, head of the Detroit FBI, made a beeline to the airport to deal with a young Nigerian man — aka The Underwear Bomber — who tried to blow up an airliner. “He slipped up and gave us some stuff,” Arena…
Flip-Flop Bandit Pleads Guilty for Illinois Stick-Up
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Carla R. Walker, 43, of Lebanon, Ill. must not have listed “running away” in her escape plan when she wore flip-flops to rob her hometown bank. Walker pled guilty Thursday in federal court on one count of bank robbery, announced the Justice Department in a press release. They must have heard Walker…
Gangster Whitey Bulger Started Snitching as Early as 1950s
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Crime never pays, but working as an informant for the FBI sure seemed to for Mobster “Whitey” Bulger. That’s why he started snitching early… as early as the 1950s reports the Boston Globe. Arrested with his girlfriend Catherine Greig last June after 16 years on the lamb, 82-year-old Bulger may not have…
The John Edwards Case Just Didn’t Feel Right
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some federal cases are too complicated for jurors. Some may be borderline illegal. And some may end up being a waste of taxpayer money. The trial against ex-presidential hopeful John Edwards was probably all of the above. A jury on Thursday acquitted him on one count and deadlocked on five others…
Colombo Mob Boss Pleaded Guilty to Racketeering and Firearms Charges in Boston Fed Court
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Mob boss DeLeo’s been off the streets for a while, but that hasn’t kept the feds from coming after him. The 69-year-old Colombo Family ‘Street Boss’, of Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in Boston Federal court Thursday to racketeering conspiracy and illegal possession of firearms, the Justice Department announced in a press release. As…
FBI Sting Snares White Supremacist Who Threatened Prez: Faces Gun Charges
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An FBI sting snared a white supremacist in Virginia who posted threats about President Obama on a hate-website. Douglas Story tried buying an illegal fully automatic machine gun from an undercover agent, Fox 5 reported. Story alleged paid the agent to convert a rifle into a machine gun. To read more…
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