By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former Secret Service agent, who rose through the ranks to become a deputy assistant director, is on trial in federal court in Washington in what Bloomberg news reports is the first prosecution of a foreign bribery based on a government sting run inside the U.S. Ex-agent R. Patrick Caldwell is…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI on Wednesday busted a 26-year-old Massachusetts man in a sting in which he plotted to damage or destroy the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol “using large remote controlled aircraft filled with C-4 plastic explosives,” according to the Boston U.S. Attorney’s Office. Authorities also charged Rezwan Ferdaus, a U.S. citizen residing…
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Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The rumor mill has been working over time involving the controversy between FBI and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Sheriff Lee Baca is fuming that the FBI didn’t tell him about its investigation into inmate abuse, or the fact that the FBI, in an undercover sting, paid a sheriff’s deputy about…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The press release issued Wednesday out of the Justice Department seemed a little peculiar if only because of a glaring omission. “Florida Man Indicted for Transportation, Receipt, and Possession of Child Pornography” the headline of the press release read. It went on to mention the name of the person, Anthony Mangione,…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Take your pick: Medical marijuana or a gun, but not both. Responding to multiple questions from federally licensed gun sellers, the ATF wrote an open letter declaring it illegal to knowingly sell firearms to medical marijuana users. The confusion arrises out of differing legal schemes regarding medical marijuana. Federal law prohibits…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The president’s entourage rolled through a small Massachusetts airport last year like an untamed rock band wreaking havoc in a hotel room, causing more than half a million dollars in damages. Or so the airport alleges. Marlborough Airport Properties Inc. filed a suit in a U.S. district court this week against the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com DEA agents, in conjunction with local police, arrested more than 50 people in the St. Louis area this week associated with a loose network of heroin trafficking. Officials hope to double the number of arrests in a fight against a growing problem in the region. A new form of highly-potent and…
