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Feds Misbehaving in 2012
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Everyday, people in federal law enforcement head to work, grab a coffee, maybe a donut or a bagel, comb through their emails, read a newspaper or website and go about fighting crime, protecting the public from violent drug dealers, public corruption, gun-related crimes, healthcare fraud and terrorism. But on occasion,…
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FBI Records Show Extent Marilyn Monroe Was Investigated Over Communism Allegations
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI investigated actress Marilyn Monroe and playwright Arthur Miller in the mid-1950s after an anonymous caller to the New York Daily News claimed both were Communist sympathizers, the New York Daily News reports, citing newly released records. The records were disclosed for the first time without redactions to the Associated…
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Ken Porter, Whose Father Died While on Duty As an FBI Agent, to Retire from Bureau
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Ken Porter, an assistant special agent-in-charge for the FBI in Salt Lake City, will retire after nearly three decades of service, the Desert News reports. Porter’s father, J. Robert Porter, also worked for the FBI, but he and his partner were gunned down while on duty near San Diego, the News reported….
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FBI: Bronx Woman Posed as Aunt of School Shooting Victim to Raise Money
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com While most Americans mourned the massacre of 20 children inside Sandy Hook Elementary School, a Bronx woman was hatching a scheme to profit from the shooting, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Thursday. Nouel Alba, 37, was charged in connection with an alleged scheme in which she posed as an aunt of one…
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FBI’s John Perren Named ticklethewire.com’s Fed Of The Year for 2012
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com John G. Perren, assistant director of WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) Directorate, who has been at the forefront of the FBI war on terrorism, has been named ticklethewire.com’s Fed Of The Year for 2012. Perren, whose tenure has been extended beyond the FBI’s mandatory retirement age, has been with the bureau…
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Feds Misbehaving in 2012
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Everyday, people in federal law enforcement head to work, grab a coffee, maybe a donut or a bagel, comb through their emails, read a newspaper or website and go about fighting crime, protecting the public from violent drug dealers, public corruption, gun-related crimes, healthcare fraud and terrorism. But on occasion, something…
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FBI Asked to Investigate Leaked Sex Tape of Ex-Wide Receiver Chad Johnson
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former wide receiver Chad Johnson isn’t denying he had sex with two women at a hotel in front of a camera, but he wants the FBI to find out who leaked the tape online, the Celebrity Cafe reports. Posted on WorldStarHipHop.com, the video was posted with the statement: “The photo is really…
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FBI Crime Lab Overstated Accuracy of Forensic Tests Used to Prosecutor Suspects
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s crime lab has come under intense scrutiny after a Justice Department review showed the bureau bungled up to tens of thousands of cases, the Huffington Post reports. Flawed forensic work means many innocent people are likely behind bars, the Huffington Post wrote. The errors were first exposed in a Washington…