By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI investigation into a private prison in Idaho uncovered no criminal wrongdoing, but agents did find plenty of incompetence among the staff, the Associated Press reports. Investigators also found that state and federal officials failed to properly communicate and monitor prison activities. Following a 15-month public corruption investigation, the Justice…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Shawn Miguel acknowledged he hit a parked Border Patrol truck with his mom’s pickup truck, narrowly missing an agent. But the 36-year-old’s attorney was able to convince a jury that his client struck the Border Patrol truck because he was drunk, not because he was trying to assault an agent, the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One of the FBI’s most wanted criminals often spent time along the Appalachian Trail, befriended hikers and traveled with a woman whom he called his wife, the Dispatch reports. A hiker who met a bedraggled, friendly man along the trail last year was watching “American Greed” several months ago when the…
By Laurence Kotlikoff Forbes Contributor People of little means in our country are routinely being incarcerated for minor crimes. Meanwhile, big-time criminals engaging in major financial crimes that effectively involve the theft of billions of dollars from the public aren’t being prosecuted. Today we learned of yet another huge settlement by five of the largest banks…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Members of a violent criminal street gang in New Jersey were arrested after federal authorities said at least one of them was plotting to murder an FBI plot, WABC reports. A state, local and federal investigation culminated in the arrests of 71 people allegedly connected to the Grape Street Crips gang….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two DEA workers are accused of secretly running a strip club in New Jersey and then lying about their ownership interests during national security background checks. The New York Times reports that the officials were David Polos, who most recently served as an assistant special agent in charge, and Glen Lover, a…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com. People looking for love online are targeted for Internet fraud more than anyone else, the FBI revealed in its annual online fraud report. The Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3, said romance confidence scams cost victims an average of $14,214. Although men are slightly more likely to be victimized by Internet…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama’s decision to join Twitter unleashed a torrent of hateful, even threatening tweets that have already caught the attention of the Secret Service. Not only that, the White House is archiving every response to @POTUS, the Washington Post reports. So the newspaper kindly reminds readers to be wise when tweeting…
