By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Employees of a debt collection company in Georgia are accused of impersonating FBI, Justice Department and local police officials to get thousands of people to pay up, the Guardian reports. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said the employees of Williams, Scott and Associates illegally collected debts from 6,000 people and are now…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has launched a review of the police response to 16 days of Ferguson protests in wake of the fatal shooting of an unarmed teen, CNN reports. The review will examine the handling of crowd control, protesters and the media. The task will be undertaken by a 12-person team…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A group of law school students in Ohio teamed up with a nonprofit law firm to filed a federal lawsuit against Border Patrol, alleging agents are targeting Latinos in the northern part of the state, the Columbus Dispatch reports. The suit is seeking arrest records and polices following actions by agents…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An alleged Oakland gang member accused of stealing an FBI agent’s laptop from his locked car is expected to plead guilty soon to theft of U.S. government property, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Joey Haines, 30, is an alleged member of the Ghost Town gang in West Oakland, Calif. Haines and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — Paul M. Abbate arrived in Detroit last fall to take over the local FBI office, days after Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick got a hefty 28-year prison sentence. Kilpatrick was whisked away in handcuffs. But the scent of corruption lingered, and Abbate suddenly found himself heading up an FBI office, where public corruption investigations continue to…
By Jeffrey Anderson For ticklethewire.com An indictment in U.S. District Court in Manhattan of a major international drug trafficking enterprise in the Middle East and Africa is shining a light on law enforcement operations and the diplomatic challenges the United States faces in such foreign cases. The complications of investigating international conspiracies and dealing with…
The FBI is worried about “likely” threats and attacks targeting law enforcement after a grand jury determines whether a Ferguson police officer will be charged with killing an unarmed Michael Brown.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man who attacked an NYPD officer last month with a hatchet was inspired by terrorists and black separatism, NBC4 New York reports. “There is no doubt it was terrorism,” Comey said during a news conference at the Newark FBI offices. Comey said the suspect, Zale Thompson, was politically motivated and…
