Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has launched an investigation into a fungal meningitis outbreak that sickened 751 people nationwide, killing 64, the Tennessean reports. Authorities are blaming the outbreak on contaminated steroids manufactured by a Massachusetts-based New England Compounding Center and used in spinal injections as pain relief. Joan Peay of Nashville met with an…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI arrested an airline passenger who claimed he had a bomb, threatened to kill flight attendants and mocked the captain, NBC Los Angeles reports. Kevin Lee Mosele, 20, of Hawaii, appeared in federal court in Los Angeles Tuesday and posted $10,000 bond. He faces up to 20 years in prison on…
By Alan Gomez USA Today For the past few weeks, the attention of the White House and Congress has, rightfully, been on the tens of thousands of children from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador flooding across the U.S. border. But as Washington debates the fastest and safest way to send those kids back home, it…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A scathing report accuses the FBI and Justice Department of waiting too long to notify prosecutors of flawed forensic work used in death-row convictions, the Washington Post reports. The Office of Inspector General reported Wednesday on one of the worst modern scandals involving the FBI lab. The Inspector General found that the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Chicago is getting seven more ATF agents to help quell an outbreak violence, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The decision was made recently by Attorney General Eric Holder, who had met with the Chicago mayor. The Windy City now has 52 ATF agents. “They wanted to bring more resources to Chicago to combat…
By DEVLIN BARRETT and KIRSTEN GRIND Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON—In extracting multibillion-dollar fines from Citigroup Inc. and other big banks, prosecutors say they are trying to deter future corporate wrongdoing by making shareholders angry enough to demand changes. It is a significant shift in tone for the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation, which…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A burglary suspect accused of trying to ram his truck into FBI cars to avoid arrest was indicted on federal assault charges Tuesday by a Las Vegas grand jury, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. The agents weren’t injured in the attack but their cars were damaged, authorities said. According to the criminal…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Perrye K. Turner, who most recently served as special agent in charge of the Louisville office, has been named as head of the FBI’s Houston division, Fox 26 reports. Turner started with the FBI in 1991 and was first assigned to the Birmingham Division, Huntsville Resident Agency, and in 1995, the New…
