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Feds Convict Crooked Attorney But Not Before Being Duped by FBI Snitch
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The feds got their conviction on Tuesday in New York against attorney Louis Cherico for mortgage fraud. But the case was not without embarrassment in what Gang Land News described as “Keystone Kops-like antics by the feds.” Jerry Capeci, editor of Gang Land News, reports that the feds and Cherico “were…
FBI Turns to West Point for Counterterrorism Training
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI has turned to the Army for help with its counterterrorism training. After a troubled past with their understanding and interactions with Islam, reports Wired Magazine’s The Danger Room blog, the Bureau will begin working with the Army’s Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at West Point. The center at West Point…
Fed Jury Convicts Cop in Fatal Beating of Man Whose Last Words Were “All I wanted was a Snickers”
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Call it one of the low points in policing in Spokane, Wash. A federal jury on Wednesday convicted a Spokane, Wash., police officer on civil rights and obstruction charges in the beating death of an unarmed man, the Justice Department announced. Officer Karl F. Thompson Jr., 64, was convicted on charges…
Terrorists Convictions Upheld in Plot to Bomb 110-Story Building and FBI Offices
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The appeals of Narseal Batiste and followers were rejected in Atlanta on Tuesday, reports the Associated Press. Batiste and four others were convicted of plotting, in conjunction with al-Qaida, to destroy the 110-story Willis Tower in Chicago and to bomb FBI offices in several cities in May of 2009. Batiste, cited…
4 Congressional Members Send Letter to FBI’s Mueller and Hillary Clinton Asking Palestinians to be Put on Terrorist List
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. terrorist data base watch could get quite a few new names if it’s up to four Jewish Congress members. The Jewish Telegraph Agency reports that the four Congress members wrote to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton asking that they place…
15 Tied to Texas Mexican Mafia Charged with Racketeering Conspiracy, Assault, and More
By Danny Fenster ticklethwire.com They say things are bigger in Texas, and a recent Tex-Mex plate of indictments and potential sentences certainly are. A group of members and associates of the Texas Mexican Mafia (TMM) have been indicted with a buffet of charges that may net them decades in prison, the FBI announced in a…
Intl. Arms Trafficker Viktor Bout Goes Down; NY Jury Convicts Him
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Bye Bye Viktor Bout. A federal jury in New York on Wednesday convicted the international arms dealer, whose life inspired the Nicholas Cage film “Lord of War.” The Justice Department said Bout was convicted of conspiring to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de…
FBI Investigating Ex-NJ Gov’s Investment Firm
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