By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The irony of it all is not lost. A former senior DEA who testified before Congress on the government’s efforts to stop the opioid epidemic is now paid to advise one of the largest opioid manufacturers in the country, Purdue Pharma, NBC News reports. Demetra Ashley, the former acting assistant administrator of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-FBI Director Louis Freeh warns of the dangers of importing cheaper prescription drugs from Canada. “It’s a crisis. Medicines that are fabricated overseas, under unregulated, unsupervised conditions are flooding into the United States,” Freeh tells KXAN TV. “A lot are available on the internet. The ones that are coming into the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A search warrant for Michael Cohen’s properties included some pretty interesting orders to get into his cell phone. CNN reports: In one warrant application for Cohen, an FBI agent requested authorization “to press the fingers (including thumbs) of Cohen to the Touch ID sensors of the Subject Devices, or hold the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A search warrant released Tuesday shows that the FBI had been looking into attorney Michael Cohen since July 2017, long before agents raided his Manhattan home and office in April 2018, NBC News reports. The FBI raid netted more than 4 million electronic and paper files. U.S. District Judge William H….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Anthony Comello, 24, of Staten Island man, has been arrested in the execution-style killing of Gambino crime family boss Frank Cali last week outside of his Staten Island home, the New York Daily News reports. Comello was arrested down the Jersey Shore. One motive may have been that Comello was angry…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com These have not been easy times for the Justice Department, which has seen two attorney generals fired by President Donald Trump. So, Attorney Gen. William Barr has the tall task of establishing stability. Del Quentin Wilber of the Los Angeles Times writes: In his first month in office, Atty. Gen. William Barr has…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Chris E. Swecker, who retired from the FBI as an assistant director of the Criminal Investigative Division, and currently practices law in North Carolina, endorses the idea of publicly releasing the Mueller report. In a guest column on Fox News’ website, Swecker writes: President Trump did the right thing Saturday by…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Speculation about when the Mueller probe will come to an end has heated up. It could be any time now, people inside the Beltway say. But former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of New York sees it differently. On Sunday, Bharara said it doesn’t appear that special counsel Robert Mueller is finishing up his probe….
