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Suspected White House Shooter Thought Obama Was the Antichrist
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It may not have been the brightest of assassination plots considering President Obama wasn’t even in town when Oscar Ramiro Oretego-Hernandez allegedly fired at the White House. Nonetheless, authorities believe the intent to kill Obama was there. He’s been charged with attempting to assassinate the president. CBS News reports that a…
Ooops! FBI Barges in Wrong Fla. Home
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There was one of those Oooops moments in Delray Beach, Fla. Station WPBF reported that FBI agents mistakenly barged into the wrong home in Delray in their search for a teen who allegedly concocted a phony kidnapping plot to extort money from his parents. The station reported that Naomi Palmer was…
Feds Allege that Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Took $10,000 Bribe in Restaurant
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — At this point it would be hard to tarnish the reputation of ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. But the feds heaped on some more serious allegations to his already pending public corruption charges. The Detroit News reports that new court filings in fed court in Detroit allege that Kilpatrick took a…
20 Charged in Chicago-Mexico Drug Network, Ties to Zetas Drug Cartel
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The tentacles of the Mexican cartels can be found throughout the U.S. The latest: 20 defendants — five of them suspected members of a Chicago cell of the violent Zetas Mexican drug cartel — were charged in major drug indictment in Chicago following a joint FBI-DEA investigation, Chicago’s US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald’s…
Ex-Fed Prosecutor: A Letter to My Son on Moral Decisions in Light of Penn State
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Dear Son, As your enthusiasm builds for leaving home and going off to college in a few months, I want to talk with…
Column: Cutting FBI Agents’ Benefits Won’t solve the country’s fiscal crisis
Konrad Motyka is president of the FBI Agents Association By Konrad Motyka The Hill Among the federal employees closely watching the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (the “Super-Committee”) negotiations are FBI Agents and other federal law enforcement officers. They are becoming increasingly alarmed by calls from some of our political leaders for drastic changes…
Mich. Fire Chief Pleads Not Guilty in FBI Probe
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It’s tough to come by a buck in Metro-Detroit these days. Still, Jeffrey Hawkins, a 46-year-old former fire chief for Pontiac, Mich.–a city at the northern end of Detroit’s metropolitan area–maintains that he did not ignore fire violations in exchange for cash. Hawkins plead not guilty on Tuesday after turning himself…
FBI Questions W. Va Treasurer’s Employees in Widening Probe
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com FBI Agents spread out across West Virginia on Tuesday night to question employees of the state Treasurer John Perdue about $1,000 campaign contributions made to his unsuccessful Democratic gubernatorial primary campaign last spring, reports the Charleston Gazette. “A number of individuals are being interviewed this evening,” U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin…