By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It may not be Chicago, but the Denver FBI is now investigating more than a dozen cases of public corruption in Colorado, Wyoming and Indian country, reports the Denver Post. That number is up from three years ago, when the bureau launched a special hotline for tips on public corruption At…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI is taking part in the investigation in what might be a series of hate crimes, reports WBIR. The investigation revolves around the vandalism of three churches and a former church in West Knox County The FBI has joined in the investigation of vandalism at three churches and a vacant…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A New York computer programmer was arrested and charged with stealing proprietary software code this week, reports the website TechWorld.com. But the software he allegedly stole didn’t belong to just anyone; it belonged to the federal reserve. Bo Zhang is charged with stealing software code, known as the Government-Wide Accounting and…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Several days after the feds shutdown the popular file-sharing website Megaupload.com in an anti-piracy operation, the site’s founder claimed he was not guilty, reports Reuters. Kim Dotcom pleaded not guilty at a court hearing in New Zealand to piracy and money laundering. Prosecutor Anne Toohey told a court at Dotcom’s bail…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DEA Agent Lee Paige was pegged as being somewhat of a loser when a video began circulating of him shooting himself while demonstrating how to use a gun in 2004 in front Florida school-aged children. Now Gosh Darn it, the guy just can’t win. The Associated Press reports that Paige lost…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Under the category of “bad luck for criminals” comes this story from Chicago. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that a bandit put a gun to the head of an undercover ATF agent last Thursday and tried to rob him while the agent was trying to make a heroin purchase. The paper reports…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Payday may be getting closer for families who had relatives who fell victim to Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger. The Associated Press reports that a federal appeals court has upheld multi-million dollar judgments against the government in the deaths of three people supposedly murdered by Bulger, who sits behind bars now…
