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FBI Probes Threatening White Powder Letter Sent to Talk Show Host Craig Ferguson
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More often than not politicians have been the beneficiary of mysterious letters with white powder. This time it was the flip late night talk show host Craig Ferguson who got one of those letters. The Associated Press reports that the FBI is working with police to determine who sent a threatening…
2 Retired Mass. State Cops Said FBI Should Never Have Used Mobster As Informant in Wake of Whitey Bulger Case
Mobster sought FBI protection from state investigators: MyFoxBOSTON.com
FBI Focusing on Security Over Ordinary Crime
By CHARLIE SAVAGE New York Times WASHINGTON — Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been more likely to be hunting for potential threats to national security than for ordinary criminals in recent years, but much of the time found neither, according to newly disclosed internal information. Data from a recent two-year period showed…
FBI Helps Local Police Crack 7-Year Cold Case
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com FBI agents moved into a local police station in Mountain View, Calif. in January of last year and reopened a 6-year-old cold case, reports Mountain View Patch. This week, three arrests were made in the case, a fatal drive-by shooting of a 17-year-old. “The FBI resources and technology were very valuable…
Judge Grants $700,000 in Legal Fees in FBI Mob Frame Up in 1965
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Saying the feds acted in “bad faith” during discovery, a federal judge in Boston has ordered the U.S. government to pay about $700,000 in legal fees in a lawsuit that resulted from four men being deliberately framed by the FBI in a 1965 mob slaying. The legal fees are on top…
After 36 Years FBI Gets Its Man — Thanks to Dying Mom’s Request
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A dying mother’s request helped the FBI nab her her son, who had been on the lam for 36 years. He had escaped from prison while serving life for a deadly San Francisco robbery. The Sacramento FBI Safe Streets Violent Crime Task Force on Friday arrested William Walter Asher III, 66,…
2 Somali Pirates Get Life in Death of 4 U.S. Citizens
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The pirate biz may have provided a good life for two Somalian men. Now it’s simply providing life — in prison that is. Ali Abdi Mohamed, 30, and Burhan Abdirahman Yusuf, 31, were both sentenced Monday in federal court in Norfolk, Va. to life in prison for their roles in the…