Ex-FBI Agent Peter Strzok Told Congress That Election Meddling Was Far More Important Than Hillary Email Scandal
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…
Authorities Turn Watchful Eye to Gene Gotti in Murder of Frank “Franky Boy” Cali in Staten Island
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,…
Ex-FBI Lawyer Lisa Page Says Bias Did Not Impact Trump-Hillary Probes
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…
Head of ATF on Proposed Budget and Trimming Fat: ‘Now We’re Trimming into Bone’
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…
A Sickly Paul Manafort Gets 3.5 More Years
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. …
FBI Busts the Privileged in College Scam
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Well, well, well. Apparently some of the privileged folks can’t bear to see their kids go to mediocre college. So, we have this. Thirty-three well-heeled parents, including Hollywood celebrities including Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, were implicated Tuesday in a nationwide bribery and fraud scheme to help students gain admission to elite…
Mueller Team Funded Through September
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team is funded through the end of September if necessary, Reuters reports. The funding wasn’t addressed in the budget requests for the next government fiscal year issued by the White House and Justice Department on Monday because Mueller’s office is financed by the U.S. Treasury under special…