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Column: Retired FBI Agent Says Orleans Saints’ Bountygate Could be Prosecuted as a Conspiracy
Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. This column also appeared in the New York Daily News. By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com What if several executives of a multimilliondollar national corporation hatched a plan to pay bounties to its employees…
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FBI Hunting for Pimp Who Brags on Twitter
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Twitter has gotten high grades for helping promote revolutions and for helping communicate the news. Here’s one of the uses that doesn’t get high grades. The FBI is hunting for a Chicago native who pimps underage girls and brags about it on Twitter, The Smoking Gun website reports. Authorities have issued…
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FBI’s Detroit Chief Andrew Arena Retiring to Go to Newly Formed Crime Commission
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — Andrew Arena, a familiar fixture in Detroit law enforcement community, who oversaw some of the biggest public corruption probes in Detroit in recent times and other high profile cases including the “Underwear Bomber”, is retiring as head of the Detroit FBI. The Detroit News reports that Arena will leave…
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FBI Denies Russian Spy Was Getting Closer to Obama’s Inner Circle
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A controversy is brewing over the Russian spy ring the feds busted up in 2010. USA Today reports that the FBI is denying a report that the feds shut down the probe into the spy ring because one of the spies, the glamorous Anna Chapman, was “edging closer to President Obama’s…
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FBI Posts Gotti Surveillance Film on 20 Year Anniverary of His Conviction
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Twenty years ago to this month, the feds finally nailed Godfather John Gotti, convicting him after several failed attempts. As the FBI points out on its website, he was known as the “Dapper Don” for his nice threads and the “Teflon Don” for his ability to avoid convictions. To commemorate the…
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Diego Rodriguez Heading South to Take Charge of FBI’s Dallas Office
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Dallas FBI will have a new boss soon. The FBI announced that Diego Rodriguez, special agent in charge of the Criminal Division in New York, will take over as the SAC in Dallas. He’ll replace Robert Casey who will be retiring on April 30. “I have the highest regard for…
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FBI Asks Public to Return Cash From Bank Robbery; Guess What?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com This is an interesting test of human nature and honesty. A bank robber stuck up the Wells Fargo Bank branch in Pembroke Pines, Fla., in the Ft. Lauderdale area on March 29, and as he took off on his motorcycle, cash spilled onto the road. Some citizens, who obviously dislike litter,…