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Station Posts FBI Recording of County Exec. Telling Wife to Destroy Evidence As Agents Pound on Door
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Considering he was once the top prosecutor for a prominent suburban county just outside D.C., Jack B. Johnson was not such a smart crook and shakedown artist. Johnson was arrested by the FBI late last year while in his final weeks in office as county executive of Prince George’s County on…
Grassley Questions Justice Dept. Commitment to FBI Whistleblowers
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sen. Chuck Grassley is questioning the commitment of Attorney Gen. Eric Holder and his Deputy Attorney General James Cole to FBI whistleblowers. In a press released issued Monday, Grassley said one FBI whistleblower case “continues to languish for nine years and a second case sits in limbo for more than four…
DEA Beats FBI in Charity Hockey Game
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In case you’re keeping score, yes, the FBI still has far more agents than the DEA. But on the ice that didn’t seem to matter Saturday when the two agencies squared off at the Ashburn Ice house in Virginia to play a friendly game of hockey to raise money for the…
NY Muslim Groups Resist Cooperating With Police
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com After all the efforts by law enforcement to forge a lasting cooperation — particularly in the post-9/11 era — some in the Muslim community in America remain skeptical. The Associated Press reports Muslim groups in New York are discouraging people from going to the New York police with concerns about terrorism, and…
FBI Report Says Hate Crime Rate Held Steady in 2010
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Hate crimes held steady in 2010, new FBI stats show, with 6,628 hate crime incidents reported for the year. That figure was slightly up from the 6,604 in 2009. Almost half of all incidents were motivated by racial bias, according to the FBI report released Monday. Roughly 20 percent of the…
US, UK Security Directives Clash Over London Olympics; FBI Plans to Send 500 Agents
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Expressing deep unease about the UK’s restricting the scope of anti-terrorism “stop and search” powers, the U.S, plans to send about 1,000 security agents to the 2012 London Olympics, which will include a contingent of about 500 FBI agent, reports Adelaide Now. “We are not equal partners in this,” said an unnamed…
Hunt on for $600M; Smelling Like Fraud
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com FBI investigators have found themselves in a “Whack-a-Mole” like search for $600 million in missing funds, reports MSNBC. The search, in partnership with the Commodity Futures Training Commission and the SEC, is for lost customer cash in an investigation into New Jersey Gov. John Corzine’s now bankrupt brokerage firm MF Global….
Authorities Mistakenly Arrest Arab-American Leader
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — There’s different kinds of Ooops. There’s the recent one when presidential candidate Rick Perry had a senior moment during the debates. Then there’s the ones where authorities arrest the wrong guy. This one involved the wrong guy. The Detroit Free Press reports that police, acting on an FBI arrest…