Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent accused of using public funds to pay for prostitutes for himself and the people he was investigating in the Philippines denied wrongdoing Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times reports. Agent Charles Ro was working undercover investigating weapons smuggling when he befriended three Filipino nationals by taking them to karaoke bars…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA maintains the legalization of marijuana in some states and cities would increase drug use and make marijuana more available, according to a federal report released Wednesday, Huffington Post reports. “Recently, efforts to legalize marijuana have increased. Keeping marijuana illegal reduces its availability and lessens willingness to use it,” the DEA…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A teenager on trial for trying to blow up what he thought was a bomb at an event in Portland, Oregon was “conflicted and manipulable,” the FBI acknowledged in an early assessment of the suspect, the Associated Press reports. Mohamed Mohamud’s attorney has been trying to paint the suspect as a naive,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A judge may drop charges against an off-duty FBI agent accused of dropping his pants and making lewd gestures at a truck driver on I-90 in New York, WIVB reports. A judge said Wednesday that John Yervelli Jr.’s charge of indecency would be dropped if he stays out of trouble for at…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department’s expert on public corruption and financial fraud is leaving the federal government, the Washington Post reports. Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer, head of the criminal division, is calling it quits, the Post reports. Breuer has been praised for aggressively pursuing white-collar crime and beefing up the division’s involvement…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Anyone watching President Obama’s second inaugural address may have seen some unsung heroes protecting the free world’s most powerful man. Four female Secret Service agents were on hand – the most at any one time, Cosmopolitan reports. “We’re pumped that the President practices the equality he preaches,” Cosmopolitan wrote. “Women are –…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Prominent New Jersey attorney Paul Bergrin, who is accused of using his law firm to commit crimes, including drug trafficking, prostitution and the murder of an FBI informant, is on trial in Newark federal court, Reuters reports. The trial began Tuesday and is the prosecution’s second attempt at landing a conviction against…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com DETROIT — A 36-year-old Ohio woman is suing the FBI and other federal agencies, saying she was removed from a flight in Detroit on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, manhandled, strip-searched and thrown into a dirty cell for more than four hours, the Detroit Free Press reports. Shoshana Hebshi,…
