Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Recently uncovered FBI files on former Boston Mayor Kevin White show his administration was the target of a federal corruption probe in the 1970s, the Boston Globe reports. Among the claims, which never led to charges, were that White pressured businesses to donate money in exchange for work in the city. The…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com DEA agents are used to low-life criminals. But during a raid this week in a New York house riddled with needles and crack, agents found Dr. Daniel Gillick, a 62-year-old emergency room doctor, lighting up a crack pipe with a young female companion, Buffalo News reports. Gillick’s status as a doctor prompted…
Merry melange: LuxuriaRashmi Tank’s Luxuria has an aesthetic mix of ethnic apparels to trendy canada-goosejacketsale, ‘brunch’ special western wear. The haunt of the well heeled from Ahmedabad and Vadodara, and popular even with visitors from Mumbai, this store is known for customising apparels for women. In house designers Chitra Mahavir, Urja Desai and Ritu Gupta…
By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com This is a Christmas story, but it really began just before Thanksgiving in 1987, at the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta. The Cuban inmates had rioted and had taken control of a sizeable portion of the penitentiary. The catalyst for the riots happened years before that in 1980. The Mariel boatlift,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two border patrol agents who opened fire inside a Maine home while responding to a domestic disturbance in June were justified in using deadly force, the state Attorney General’s office said Tuesday, the Bangor Daily News reports. Investigators said the agents, James Tierney and Chris Demanski, returned fire after the home’s 75-year-old…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a rash of telephone bomb threats to buildings in 30 counties in Tennessee, Reuters reports. Public facilities such as courthouses were shut down Tuesday following the threats. “There were no devices found,” Dayla Qualls, spokeswoman for the state Department of Safety and Homeland Security, told Reuters. Among the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An unlikely alliance between gangsters and the mafia was discovered by the FBI during an investigation of a loan-sharking ring, the New York Post reports. The newspaper wrote that the Brooklyn-based FBI arrested purported Gambino crime family member James Ferrara, alleged Westies gang member Daniel Hanley and reputed Demon Knights motorcycle gangster…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is launching an investigation of the Albuquerque Police Department following more than two dozen shootings, the New York Times reports. The probe is to determine whether police used excessive force, including unreasonable deadly force, against suspects. “We will peel the onion to its core, and we will leave no…
