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….
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…
