By David Voreacos Bloomberg News Every dawn in the early spring of 2011, Matthew Kluger peered out his window, wondering when federal agents would knock at his door. Kluger, a mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer, says he worried that authorities were closing in on him as the source of illegal tips in a three-man insider-trading ring that had…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com New York’s restrictive gun laws have triggered a rash of gun sales from other states, a federal report shows, Newsday reports. Because the state prohibits machine guns and possessing handguns without a license, weapons are brought into New York from elsewhere, according to a report by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Republican investigators blamed the failures of “Operation Fast and Furious” on five high-ranking officials at ATF in a scathing congressional report issued Monday, the Los Angeles Times reports. “From the outset, the case was marred by missteps, poor judgments, and an inherently reckless strategy,” the report states. The 211-page report calls on…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Chicago man accused of traveling to Somalia to become a suicide bomber for a terrorist group tied to al-Qaida faces nearly 10 year in prison, the Chicago Tribune reports. Shaker Masri, 28, agreed to plead guilty to one count of attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization in exchange…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Trenton Mayor Tony Mack said he is cooperating with the FBI after agents searched his house and city hall offices, the Courier-Post reports. But Mack, making his first public appearance since the FBI raided his house and city offices about two weeks ago, declined to answer questions about the focus of the…
By STEFANO ESPOSITO Chicago Sun-Times CHICAGO — The city’s longest-serving FBI chief is retiring — just one month after the city’s top federal prosecutor stepped down. Robert D. Grant, 54, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office, has accepted a job with the Walt Disney Company in Los Angeles, where he will be part of their…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Stephen E. Richardson, an inspector with the Office of Inspections, is leaving the mothership at headquarters and heading south to take charge of the Mobile, Ala. FBI office. Richardson began his career with the FBI in 1996 and was first assigned to the New Orleans Division, Lafayette Resident Agency, and later…
