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Gun Sales Hit Record in 2012; a Spike in Purchases Expected After School Shooting
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com People are buying guns in record numbers. The FBI recorded nearly 17 million background checks of gun purchases in 2012, the most since the bureau began compiling the date in 1998, the Huffington Post reports. Since the background checks don’t include multiple gun purchases, the number of guns sold this year are…
FBI to Host Secret, Exclusive Holiday Sale on FBI Merchandise
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal employees who still need last-minute gifts for the holidays may be in for a bargain at a top-secret sale of bureau-branded clothing and merchandise, Crain’s New York Business reports. For the first time, the FBI is opening its New York store at 26 Federal Plaza on Dec. 20 for a four-hour…
FBI: Former Wells Fargo Banker Helped Insider Trading Ring in Exchange for Gold, Cash
Steve Neavling ticklethewire A former Wells Fargo investment banker is accused of tipping off investors in an insider trading scheme in exchange for gold and cash, the FBI announced Thursday. The banker, John Femenia, was indicted along with eight accused insider traders in an indictment unsealed Thursday. Femenia, who faces up to 30 years in…
FBI: Government Workers Faked Excessive Exercise to Earn Gift Cards
Steve Neavling ticklethewire An initiative by Blue Cross and Blue Shield to promote good health seemed to work too well when some municipal employees of Kansas City were reporting excessive, grueling exercise sessions to earn gift cards. It was so unreal, in fact, that the scam caught the FBI’ attention, which resulted in an investigation,…
Muslim U.S. Citizen Claims He’s Being Harassed by Feds, Local Authorities
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Muslim man from Oklahoma claims he’s being harassed by the FBI after he was twice barred from flying from Qatar to visit his sick mother in the United States, the Associated Press reports. Now that he’s back home in the U.S., Saadiq Long says local and federal authorities are trying to…
Ex-FBI Agent Sentenced to Probation for Passing on Information about Undercover Investigation
Steve Neavling ticklthewire.com A former FBI agent who passed on confidential information to a friend about an ongoing federal investigation in New Jersey was sentenced Tuesday to four years of probation, the Washington Post reports. Ivan Stanchev, 43, delivered information about a criminal probe in Newark to a friend who apparently was curious about an…
Gun ownership appears to be on a steady rise, but the motive is in dispute.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Over the past decade, the number of federally mandated background checks of prospective gun purchases has nearly doubled, the USA Today reports, citing FBI records. Nearly 17 million people received background checks already this year, up from 8.5 million in 2002, the USA Today wrote. If you ask gun-rights advocates what’s causing…
Young Cancer Patients Get Smiles, Honors at FBI Office in Nebraska
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com They aren’t your typical FBI agents. Then again, Sammy Nahorny, 4, Paul Hayes, 9, and Jack Hoffman, 7 aren’t your typical children. Diagnosed with cancer, the children were distracted from their illnesses at the Omaha FBI office, where they became honorary members of the agency during a mock swearing-in ceremony, the Omaha…