By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security reached a rare settlement with a newspaper after seizing a reporter’s notes and records from her home while executing a warrant for information on guns allegedly possessed by her husband, the Washington Times reports. The agency agreed to reimburse some of the legal bills accred by the newspaper and…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Did one of the top leaders of the DEA intimidate members of Congress while discussing a prescription drug bill? That’s the claim by two Republicans – Reps. Marsha Blackburn, Tenn., and Tom Marino, Pa. – who say in a letter to the Justice Department’s inspector general that DEA Deputy Assistant Administrator Joe…
By Steve Neavling tickethewire.com The FBI is grieving two of its employees after they were killed in a collision between a barge and a small pleasure boat in the Ohio River, the Associated Press reports. Investigators are still trying to piece together what happened late Thursday night in the river between Cincinnati and Newport, Kentucky….
By Washington Post Editorial Board Few federal government agencies have grown as quickly as U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which includes the 21,000 agents, double the number in 2004, who patrol the nation’s frontiers with Mexico and Canada. That growth has been accompanied by an alarming number of incidents involving the use of lethal force,…
By Steve Neavling tickethewire.com The days of profiling may be over for federal law enforcement, according to a report obtained by the Washington Post. The ban on profiling would apply to people based on their ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. One impact of the policy, for example, would be prohibiting surveillance of mosques without proof…
By Steve Neavling tickethewire.com Although President Obama recently expressed confidence in the Secret Service, his actions may speak louder. Boston.com reports that Obama and his wife were incensed with the Secret Service’s handling of what turned out to be shots fired at the White House in 2011. The news comes a little more than a…
By Steve Neavling tickethewire.com A Philadelphia municipal judge who pleaded guilty last week to mail and wire fraud charges was caught in the act when the FBI invented a defendant, the Associated Press reports. Judge Joseph Waters Jr., who was suspected of corruption, had no idea that the FBI created a bogus defendant, David Khoury,…
Jerry Capeci is a mob expert who formerly covered the Mafia for the New York Daily News. His website, Gang Land News, is a paid subscription site. This article was re-printed with permission. By Jerry Capeci Gang Land News The crooked accountant whose testimony helped seal the fate of New York’s infamous “Mafia Cops” is back to his…
