FBI
Head of New Orleans FBI Dave Welker is Retiring
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Dave Welker knew there was plenty cajun food and beer in New Orleans and plenty corruption. Now after dealing with that corruption the pastfour years as head of the FBI in New Orleans, he’s retiring. “I found (New Orleans) by far has been my best assignment, by far,” said Welker, according…
FBI and NYPD May Soon Finally Close 33 Year Old Case of Missing Child Etan Patz
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com One of the first missing kids featured on a milk carton may see justice after all, though 33 years after his disappearance and long after he was assumed dead, it may be small comfort to his family. Pedro Hernandez was picked up by local cops in Camden, N.J., yesterday, and “made statements…
Head of Secret Service Denies Culture of Misconduct
OTHER STORIES OF INTEREST Mickey Shunick Disappearance: FBI, Police Exhausting Resources in Hunt for Missing Co-ed (ABC News) Air Jet Diverts After Passenger Claims to Have ‘Device’ (Reuters) Attorney General Statement on Resignation of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald (Justice Dept) Jury in John Edwards Trial Deliberates for 5th Day (AP) DOD and CIA Records Detail…
Republican Congressmen Demand Whitehouse be Included in Leak Investigation
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Could White House officials have accidentally leaked news that tripped up a Western intelligence operation targeting Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen? Two Republican congressional leaders want the formal FBI inquiry to answer that question, reports Reuters. Monday, Rep Peter King, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, sent a letter to…
Column: Time to Set Teen Drug Dealer Free After 25 Years; Retired FBI Agent Pushes for Release
By Allan Lengel For Deadline Detroit DETROIT — On any ordinary day, Richard Wershe Jr. sleeps in and skips breakfast in his prison in northern Michigan. But on Tuesday — the 25th anniversary of his arrest in Detroit – he couldn’t sleep, so he grabbed some oatmeal with skim milk. “I probably slept two hours,”…
Sentencing for 2nd Half of Ohio Couple Guilty of Funding Hizbollah
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com The upside is both the husband and wife will know where one another is at all times. The Ohio couple is serving time for trying to fund Hizbollah’s terrorist efforts against Israel. Hor I. Akl was sentenced yesterday to 75 months in prison for scheming with wife Amera to send hundreds of…
OBIT: Former Tampa FBI Agent Michael Barry Carmody Dies at 73; One of his Cases Inspired Film “Donnie Brasco”
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Barry Carmody served as an FBI agent for 33 years, retiring in 1998 having participated in some of Tampa’s most historic cases. Carmody died Wednesday of brain cancer at age 73. He is survived by his wife, two children, six grandchildren and, according to friends and family, some whopping stories. Among his…
Questions Remain in Oklahoma Bombing: Book Excerpts
Perhaps no lead in the Oklahoma City bombing investigation was left hanging more glaringly than the radical community in eastern Oklahoma known as Elohim City. It played host to some of dangerous radical criminals of the time, and there are multiple indications from law enforcement sources McVeigh himself either spent time there or met its…