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April Brooks Named Head of Criminal Division in NY
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com April Brooks, whose career included investigations into children-related crimes and the mysterious death of a Baltimore federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna in 2003, has been named special agent in charge of the Criminal Division in the FBI’s very busy New York Division. Brooks, special assistant to the executive assistant director of the…
Justice Department Building Case Against Financial Institutions
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. Justice Department is investigating several financial institutions and their employees over the manipulation of interest rates, Reuters reports. Traders at Barclays Plc are among the institutions under investigation related to how banks set the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, Reuters reported, citing sources who spoke on condition of anonymity….
Penn State Cover Up is Lesson for Institutions Including Fed Law Enforcement
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There’s a lesson to be learned from the Jerry Sandusky-Penn State child sexual abuse scandal for institutions, including federal law enforcement agencies. The main lesson is that institutions aren’t more important than people. We’ve seen this play out so many times before. Institutions protecting their image, avoiding disgrace. We’ve seen it…
Now More Than Ever I Believe Bo Schembechler Would Have Done Right Thing in Penn State Scandal
By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com Last November I wrote a column about how I thought legendary Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler would have handled the Penn State scandal. Since then Joe Paterno was fired and subsequently died from cancer. Jerry Sandusky was convicted of 46 of 48 counts of sexual child abuse involving 10 boys. Now…
Three Men Accused of Stealing Weapons from FBI Agent’s Car in Mississippi
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Chances are when you break in to an FBI agent’s government issued car you’re not going to get away with it. Agents have a tendency to really want to find the missing equipment, particularly when it involves guns. The Associated Press reported that three men have been charged with stealing or…
Column: Now More Than Ever I Believe Bo Schembechler Would Have Done Right Thing in Penn State Scandal
Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com Last November I wrote a column about how I thought legendary Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler would have handled the Penn State scandal. Since then Joe Paterno was fired…
Column: Penn State Cover Up is Lesson for Institutions Including Fed Law Enforcement
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There’s a lesson to be learned from the Jerry Sandusky-Penn State child sexual abuse scandal for institutions, including federal law enforcement agencies. The main lesson is that institutions aren’t more important than people. We’ve seen this play out so many times before. Institutions protecting their image, avoiding disgrace. We’ve seen…
FBI In Early 1960s Mistakenly Referred to Mob as “La Causa Nostra”
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com How unsophisticated was the FBI when dealing with the mob in the early 1960s? So unsophisticated that the bureau referred to the La Cosa Nostra as the La Causa Nostra, according to Jerry Capeci, the mob expert who runs the site Gang Land News. Capeci writes that for near two years,…