Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI informant who provided vital information about an alleged bribe to get a state senator on the New York City mayoral ballot has his own troubles, NBC 4 New York reports. NBC 4 identified the informant as real estate developer Moses Stern, 40, who is accused of orchestrating a fraudulent real…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a Catholic priest in suburban Detroit accused of embezzling more than $400,000 from his church, the Detroit Free Press reports. Troy police handed over the investigation of Rev. Edward Belczak, 67, a former pastor at St. Thomas More Parish in Troy for three decades, the Free Press wrote….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI in Orange County has a special weapon against crime. It’s called the Regional Mobile Computer Forensic Laboratory, and it recently helped catch ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner, NBC 4 in Southern California reports. “It’s a self-enclosed mobile laboratory,” said Supervising Special Agent Jason Weiss of the Los Angeles-area Federal Bureau of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal agencies are increasingly relying on polygraphs for suspects despite concerns about the tests’ reliability, reports Center for Investigative Reporting. Although Congress banned the exam in most of the private sector 25 years ago, 17 federal agencies, including CBP, use polygraph tests, CIR wrote. The National Center for Credibility Assessment trains polygraphers,…
Character to me is somebody you can always count on and I try to do that every day. Not surprising. The family sporting tree extends to Nurse mother, Cathy, who played basketball at McMaster University while his sisters, Tamira and Kia, played hoop at the University of Oregon and with Canada senior development program respectively….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents investigating claims that U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez was attending sex parties with prostitutes in the Dominican Republic are accused of brow-beating two maids for information, the Miami Herald reports. The maids are asking the Dominican National Police to investigate the FBI’s handling of them, saying they were illegally detained and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Bernard Tolbert, the former head of the FBI office in Buffalo, is entering the mayoral race as a Democrat and will take incumbent Byron Brown, the Buffalo News reports. Tolbert, 64, is expected to soon file his paperwork for a campaign finance committee. A Buffalo native and FBI veteran, Tolbert has been…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When Ed Hanko took over as special agent in charge of the FBI’s Philadelphia office, he prominently displayed a photo of his father standing with about 60 other helmeted coal miners at a plant in Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The weathered black-and-white photo on his bookshelf reminds Hanko of how hard…
