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![30 Years Later: FBI Still Hunting for Demonstrator Who Partially Blinded Officer at JFK Airport](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/joan-borup.jpeg)
30 Years Later: FBI Still Hunting for Demonstrator Who Partially Blinded Officer at JFK Airport
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It was Sept. 26, 1981 when Donna Joan Borup showed up to an anti-apartheid rally at JFK Airport in Queens and allegedly tossed an acid-like substance into the eyes of Port Authority Police Officer Evan Goodstein. Goodstein ended up partially blind and had to resign from the force. Thirty years later,…
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Calif. Atty. Convicted of Taking Bribes to Get Client to Lie to Grand Jury
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A California attorney thought he’d make some extra cash by getting his client to lie before a grand jury in Los Angeles in a visa fraud case. Now he won’t need that cash when he heads off to prison. Alfred Nash Villalobos, 46, of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., was found guilty…
![FBI Donates Artifacts from 9/11 Attack to Newseum in D.C.](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/cellphones.jpg)
FBI Donates Artifacts from 9/11 Attack to Newseum in D.C.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com We all remember that eerie day — Sept. 11, 2001 — when terrorists took a routine Tuesday and shook it so hard and turned it upside down and changed forever the way we travel and think about security and radical movements abroad. To bring back some vivid memories, the FBI has…
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Oracle Investigation Latest in Trend in Foreign Corrupt Practice Act Crackdown by Justice Dept.
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Software company Oracle is being investigated by the FBI, reports the Guardian, in what some see as a trend in the increase of prosecutions under the foreign corrupt practices act (FCPA), which forbids U.S. companies from paying bribes to foreign government officials or employees of state-owned companies. “Every week…
![FBI Number 2 Person Tim Murphy Stepping Down; Sean Joyce Will Replace Him](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Murphy-Timothy-P.jpg)
FBI Number 2 Person Tim Murphy Stepping Down; Sean Joyce Will Replace Him
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI’s number two person Timothy P. Murphy is stepping down to take a position in the private sector, the FBI announced Wednesday. Sean Joyce, the Executive Assistant Director of the National Security Branch, will replace him as the deputy director. “Tim Murphy has earned the respect and admiration of his…
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Boston FBI Unveils New Terrorism Task Force at Logan Airport
By Milton J. Valencia Globe Staff BOSTON –In a move timed to the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the FBI’s Boston bureau and the Massachusetts Port Authority announced yesterday the opening of a self-contained “nerve center’’ for a counterterrorism task force based at Logan International Airport. It is the first center of…
![FBI Agent Timothy Delaney Named Head of Criminal Division in LA](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/delaney-2.jpeg)
FBI Agent Timothy Delaney Named Head of Criminal Division in LA
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Timothy J. Delaney is heading off to Los Angeles to be the special agent in charge of the Criminal Division. Delaney, who joined the FBI in 1991, most recently served as section chief for the New Agent’s Training Program Section in the FBI’s Training Division. After joining the FBI, he…
![Column: Ex-FBI Agent Says We Should Limit Gun Purchases](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Ed_Gibson.jpg)
Column: Ex-FBI Agent Says We Should Limit Gun Purchases
Edward P. Gibson was an FBI special agent from 1985 to 2005. He was in the U.S. Army from 1971-74 and a lawyer in the U.S. for a major corporation 1980-1985 and Chief cyber Security Advisor – Microsoft Ltd – UK from 2005 to 2009. He wrote this in response to a column by ticklethewire.com…