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Mass. Man Pleads Guilty to Spying for Israel
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Massachusetts man has copted a plea to trying to spy for Israel. Elliot Doxer, 43, an employee of a high-tech company, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Boston federal court to foreign economic espionage for providing trade secrets over an 18-month period to an undercover FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence…
Md. Man With Fake Teaching Credentials Gets 21 Months; Taught Law Enforcement Including FBI
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Who the heck is William G. Hillar? Well, if you read his online bio you’d see that he had some darn impressive credentials in the military, had a Ph.d and he’s been raking in cash teaching, conducting workshops and giving speeches, and that he received training in counter-terrorism and psychological warfare…
Feds Bust San Francisco Giant Payroll Managers on Charges of Swiping $1.5 Mil
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It looks like it’s strike three for the ex-payroll manager for the San Francisco Giants. The feds have charged Robin O’Connor, 41, of the San Francisco Bay area, with embezzling more than $1.5 million from the club’s employees, including players and buying fancy cars and a new home, the Associated Press…
Tensions Grow Between FBI and Nigerian Law Enforcement
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Tensions seem to be heating up between African authorities and the FBI, reports Afrigque en ligne. Nigerian police and the State Security Service say they feel sidelined by FBI agents’ investigation of the recent UN-building bombing in the nation’s capital Abuja. Though security and intelligence agents in Nigeria said they…
The CIA Wants Cuts in Ex-FBI Agent’s Book That’s Critical of Spy Agency
By SCOTT SHANE New York Times WASHINGTON — In what amounts to a fight over who gets to write the history of the Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath, the Central Intelligence Agency is demanding extensive cuts from the memoir of a former F.B.I. agent who spent years near the center of the battle against…
Inmate With FBI Wire Helps Bust Cellmate Who Wanted Prosecutor Killed
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With the help of a prisoner, who agreed to wear a wire, the FBI on Monday busted a 73-year-old man who wanted to have a Massachusetts prosecutor killed. An affidavit by FBI agent Michael E. Dwyer said the FBI first received a letter from an inmate at the Worcester County House…
FBI Says Ex-NBA Player Arrested at Calif. Airport on Murder Charge
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Authorities Monday night arrested ex-NBA player Javaris Crittenton at John Wayne Airport in Orange Co., Calif., on a murder charge out of Atlanta, the FBI said, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Crittenton was arrested at the airport while checking in for a red eye flight from LA…
NY Times Editorial: Didn’t FBI Learn Anything from Whitey Bulger Case?
By The New York Times Editorial Page Cutting deals with criminal informants may, at times, be a necessary if unsavory part of law enforcement. But the benefits must outweigh the costs, and it is not clear the F.B.I.’s Boston office has mastered that balance. A police wiretap referred to in documents filed in a Boston…