Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former FBI agent Robert Levinson has been missing in for 2,000 days. He vanished while visiting Iran. The U.S. State Department pledged Tuesday to continue its hunt for the 64-year-old man, who disappeared March 9, 2007, UPI reports. The family last received a video of Levinson two years ago, but nothing since….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Wilmington-based law firm of former FBI Director Louis J. Freeh is to merge with prominent Center City-based law firm, Pepper Hamilton L.L.P., the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The merger is designed to prepare Pepper Hamilton to expand its white-collar defense practice, according to the Inquirer. Freeh started his own law firm in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI actively investigated late science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury on suspicions that he had Communist leanings in the 1960s, according to records obtained by The Huffington Post. Several writers, including screenwriter Martin Berkeley, voiced suspicions about Bradbury, who was an outspoken critic of the House Un-American Activities Committee, which probed communists in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A retired FBI agent who handled a notorious mafia hitman and secret FBI informant in the 1960s will be featured on Biography Channel’s Mobsters next week, reports the Sarasota Patch. Former agent Lindley “Lynn” DeVecchio will discuss the handling of Colombo crime family capo Gregory Scarpa, known as “The Grim Reaper” in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A New Jersey postal worker was distributing more than mail on her daily route. The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday the arrest of Christina Nunez, who allegedly used her daily route to ship cocaine in falsely addressed packages, the Associated Press reports. Authorities said Nunez admitted receiving packages of cocaine as part…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI website is getting rather playful. As part of its celebration of the 40th anniversary of woman FBI agents, the bureau is offering a quiz on women and pop culture. The website writes: It took a while for Hollywood and television to notice that FBI women special agents had come…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. Justice Department is joining the investigation into the shooting death of Milton Hall, who was gunned down by police in Saginaw, Mich., the Saginaw News MLive reports. An amateur video of the shooting spurred protests from residents who say police opened fire unnecessarily because Hall was not an imminent…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department may be asked to pull a soon-to-be-published book about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the Associated Press reports. Authorities said Matt Bissonnette, who is listed under the pseudonym, Mark Owen, was required to submit the book for pre-publication review under military secrecy agreements he signed. If the…
