Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It’s safe to say David Powers was unhappy. The 44-year-old Portland man who packed his wife’s FBI Dodge Charger with her Glock, ballistic vests, credentials and badge and then set it ablaze pleaded guilty Tuesday to destruction of federal property, the Oregonian reports. Powers, who was hospitalized with burns to his face,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI believes a reputed Connecticut mobster who is expected to plead guilty today to weapons and prescription drugs charges was involved in the largest art heist in history, the Associated Press reports. Although Robert Gentile, 76, hasn’t been charged in the 1990 St. Patrick’s Day heist, Assistant U.S. Attorney John Durham…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A $1 billion facial recognition system for the FBI will allow agents to capture photos, fingerprints, iris scans and other biographical data from a mobile device such as a phone, Computer World reports. The new technology is part of the Biometric Identification Tools Program, surveillance software that relies on biometric data and…
Matthew Miller is a partner at Vianovo. From 2009 to 2011, he was the Director of the Office of Public Affairs at the Department of Justice. By Matthew Miller Politico Since the news of CIA Director David Petraeus’s extramarital affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell broke last week, members of Congress have demanded to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com There’s an old, time-tested rule: Don’t make phone calls while you’re really inebriated. Peter Joseph Persico apparently couldn’t help himself at a Florida bar when he called the FBI office in Albany and unleashed a torrent of profanity directed at an agent, the Albany Times Union reports. Still fuming after he was…
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