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FBI Plans to Shut Down 3 Offices in Wisconsin
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI’s footprint in Wisconsin could be shrinking. The agency plans to close three of its seven offices in the state, according to a press release by Sen. Herb Kohl’s office. The Wisconsin Democrat raised the issue on Tuesday to Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr., who appeared before the Senate Judiciary…
Couple Sentenced in Pregnancy Scam
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com She was perhaps the only lady not carrying for whom you might ask, “how many months along are you?” without being slapped in the face. Serena Carol Mathews, 42, and boyfriend Scott Thomas Smith, 34, of Oklahoma City, were sentenced to 27 months each on Tuesday in Oklahoma City after pleading…
FBI Lends Hand to the Balkans
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com One lucky FBI agent has won a round trip visit to the Balkan nation of Bulgaria. Announced on Tuesday during Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov’s U.S. visit, an FBI special agent will be sent to Bulgaria to assist the nation’s cyber crime fighting, reports the Sofia News Agency. The agent will…
FBI’s Hoover Building “Bursting at Seams”
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI has swelled so much in size since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that the D.C. headquarters is bursting at the seams. The Government Accountability Office has determined that FBI headquarters at the J. Edgar Hoover Building is deteriorating and in need of repair, much of attributable to staff growth since…
Ex-CIA Agent Claims She Was Railroaded by Overzealous Detroit Fed Prosecutors and FBI Agents
By David Ashenfelter Detroit Free Press DETROIT — Nada Prouty, the former Taylor woman who was drummed out of the CIA, prosecuted and stripped of her U.S. citizenship in 2007 because of a fraudulent marriage, says in a new book that she was railroaded by overzealous prosecutors and FBI agents in Detroit. “They had no…
Aaron Ford to Head Up FBI’s Memphis Division
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Aaron T. Ford, an inspector at FBI headquarters, who has a law degree from Rutgers, has been named special agent in charge of the FBI’s Memphis Division. As inspector, he oversaw field office and headquaters inspections, shooting incident review teams, audits, and special inquiries. Ford began his career with the FBI…
Hoover Had it Out for LA Times Reporter Jack Nelson: Feared He Would Report He was a Homosexual
By Richard A. Serrano Los Angeles Times As this week’s release date of the movie “J. Edgar” approaches, more info seems to be surfacing about the legendary FBI director. The latest: Richard Serrano of the Los Angeles Times reports that Hoover became obsessed in the early 1970s with a new reporter in Washington, Jack Nelson…