By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal authorities are searching for a “substantial” number of firearms and gun parts stolen from a government disposal facility in Martinsburg, W.Va., USA Today reports. Christopher Yates, a security contractor assigned to the ATF repository in West Virginia, has been charged in connection with the missing weapons and parts. Yates has…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Donald Trump continues to stir up controversy via Twitter. On Sunday, he accused the late Sen. John McCain in a tweet of working with the Democrats during the 2016 presidential election by giving the Christopher Steele dossier to the FBI and media to help sink his campaign, the Washington Times reports. Several reports say McCain didn’t hand…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Controversial ex-FBI official Peter Strzok told Congress during a closed-door interview last June that “a hostile foreign power . . . seeking to clandestinely influence our presidential election” was a far graver threat than the charge that Clinton was mishandling classified information, the Washington Post reports. A transcript of the interview was released…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It had been decades since a Mafia boss was hit in New York. But on Wednesday, Frank (Franky Boy) Cali, the alleged Gambino crime boss, was shot down in front of his Staten Island home. Now, authorities are turning a watchful eye to just-out-of-jail Gene Gotti, brother of the late John Gotti,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page said last year on Capitol Hill that any bias in the FBI against Donald Trump did not impact the bureau’s investigations of the Trump campaign’s suspected Russia ties and of Hillary Clinton’s emails. Her comments before theHouse Judiciary and Oversight committees were included in a transcript…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com One way to cut back on enforcement of the nation’s gun laws is to reduce funding to the top agency tasked with that job. On Wednesday, Thomas Brandon, head of ATF, broke with the White House on the administration’s 2020 budget proposal that calls for ATF cuts, saying it would further…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A sickly Paul Manafort was sentenced to another 3.5 years in prison Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Judge Amy Berman Jackson of D.C. sentenced him to 43 months, which is in addition to the 47 months he received by a federal judge in Alexandria, Va. in a separate case, the Washington Post reports. …
