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Former Fla. Detective Gets Two Years for Public Corruption
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A former homicide detective in St. Petersburg, Fla. was slapped with two years in prison for public corruption charges, the FBI announced on Wednesday morning. Anthony V. Foster received the sentence after pleading guilty to wire fraud to deprive the public of honest services on October 20, 2011. Court documents show…
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Idaho Man Charged With Attempting to Assassinate Pres. Obama
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Truthfully, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, 21, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, didn’t come close. Nonetheless, he was indicted by a D.C. federal grand jury on Tuesday for attempting to assassinate President Obama on Nov. 11. A 17-count indictment against Ortega-Hernandez, who has been in custody since his arrest November 16, also includes…
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FBI “Blackballing” FOIA Request Files?
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The website Truthout has reported on some unflattering FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) practices Tuesday morning. The site claims that the FBI regularly engages in the “blackballing” of files–returning a “no records” response to FOIA requests when in fact the records do exists. An interesting story, particularly for those seeking FBI…
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Wahlberg: “Whitey” Bulger Wants to Meet With Me
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The imprisoned Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger is trying to get hold of Mark Wahlberg, the actor says. The meeting is only speculation at this point, reports The Inquisitr, but it seems plausible Bulger wants Wahlberg to portray his likeness in a possible biopic on the criminal. “I actually got a…
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“Seven Second Bandit”, Out on Early Release, Wanted Again
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Out of federal prison only since July, the “Sevon-Second Bandit” Jack Mannino is again wanted in connection with a bank robbery, reports SILive.com. Mannino, a former Gambino Crime Family associate, got his name in the 1990’s, according to SI Live, when he was caught entering banks with a package and threatening…
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FBI Recovers Over 6 Tons of Cocaine from Sunken Ship
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI has gone digging for sunken treasures, and the find was no small prize. FBI divers, with the US Coast Guard and a Canadian warship, found over six tons of drugs on a recovered drug cargo ship in the Caribbean, AFP reported early Tuesday morning. An FBI laboratory technical dive…
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Boston Globe Obtains FBI Interview of Imposter Clark Rockefeller
By Maria Cramer Boston Globe Staff BOSTON — Clark Rockefeller slumped in a chair in the interview room of an FBI office in Baltimore, his left wrist chained to a metal bar, and stared glumly at his interrogators. Why, they asked, had he lied about places he never visited, jobs he never held, and names…
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ACLU Celebrates MLK Day with FBI Jab
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com On this MLK day holiday, the blog of the ACLU has some recriminations for the FBI’s treatment of the civil rights movement hero. “Over the course of two decades, the FBI went to war against Dr. Martin Luther King,” their January 16 blog post begins. Under J. Edgar Hoover’s direction, the FBI…