Signed with the Packers as a free agent when the New York Yankees folded before the 1929 season. Michalske played with the Yankees in 1926 in the short lived American Football League and for two years (1927 28) in the NFL prior to Green Bay. Named to NFL’s All Decade Team for the 1920s. Cheap…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There were a whole lot of new appointments announced at the FBI this week. Andrew G. McCabe was named assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division. He last served as deputy assistant director of the Counterterrorism Division. Jennifer R. Sanchez was named assistant director of the Information Technology Services Division (ITSD). Her…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s the end of the line for Thomas Gioeli, the ex-acting boss of the Colombo crime family. A federal jury in Brooklyn convicted Gioeli and family solidier Dino Caracino on Wednesday of racketeering conspiracy in a case that involved allegations of murder, witness tampering and obstruction of justice. In other words,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Yes, it’s so Sheriff Joe. The Justice Department on Thursday filed a civil lawsuit in fed court against the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office and Sheriff Joseph M. Arpaio, alleging a pattern of unconstitutional conduct that included discriminating Latino motorists and inmates. The lawsuit alleges that the department frequently stopped Latinos motorist…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The mess from the bungled prosecution of the late Sen. Ted Stevens isn’t over yet. The website Main Justice reports that the Office of Professional Responsibility is investigating the lead FBI agent in the case, Mary Beth Kepner. New of the probe surfaced when FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III testified…
By Allan Lengel ticklthewire.com That was quick. One day after the FBI placed him on its Ten Most Wanted List, accused kidnapper and murderer Adam Mayes was found dead Thursday in Union County Miss., CNN reported. He reportedly shot and killed himself. Mayes was accused of kidnapping a Tennessee mother and her three daughters. The mother…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Nicholas DeBelleville Katzenbach, who worked as a lawyer for the Justice Department during the Kennedy administration and became Attorney General under the Johnson regime, only to bump heads with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, died Tuesday at age 90. Serving a crucial role in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, it was Katzenbach…
