By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 49-year-old San Jose man is charged with impersonating a DEA agent after he allegedly donned a gold badge and used a Volkswagen Jetta equipped with police lights to stop drivers, including an actual government official, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Authorities arrested Alex E. Taylor last weekend outside his…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The wife of former FBI agent Robert Levinson is expressing frustration about efforts to locate her husband and bring him back home. He vanished in 2007 while on an unauthorized mission in Iran for the CIA. Christine Levinson told a House panel Thursday that she holds Iran responsible for the disappearance…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Retired FBI Agent Herman Groman, who attended a meeting Wednesday with FBI Director Christopher Wray and members of the Las Vegas FBI Field Office, said he left with great confidence that the bureau is headed in the right direction. Groman said about 150 people attended the meeting at the Marriott hotel…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Michael Cohen, the former lawyer for President Donald Trump, asked one of his attorneys last summer to inquire about getting a presidential pardon, Cohen’s attorney and spokesman Lanny Davis tells ABC News. Cohen asked his now former attorney Stephen Ryan to meet with Rudy Giuliani about the possibility of a pardon…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Eric Jackson, who began heading up the FBI in Dallas in March 2017, is leaving with a list of accomplishments, particularly in the area of public corruption. He’s leaving behind a list of local public officials who are now facing prison time, NBC5 reports. The station talked with Jackson about his…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 52-year-old contractor has been arrested after allegedly stealing firearms from an ATF facility in West Virginia. Christopher Lee Yates faces federal charges of theft of government property and possession of a stolen firearm from ATF, the Journal newspaper reports. “Investigation and intelligence reveals that Yates traveled from West Virginia to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President Trump plans to nominate D.C. U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu as the Justice Department’s No. 3 official, the Wall Street Journal reports. The nomination comes after a year in which his administration failed to persuade several candidates to take on the challenging position, the publication writes. The No. 3 post was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ever since becoming the FBI director, Christopher Wray has expressed concern about the challenges encryption has posed for law enforcement. On Tuesday, at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, he said the problem is “getting worse and worse,” according to the website Gizmodo, which reports: It’s a common refrain for government…
