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Las Vegas Man Livid; Says FBI Ignored 2008 Tip About Mobster Whitey Bulger
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The James “Whitey” Bulger story ain’t going away any time soon. The latest: A Las Vegas man is livid. The Boston Herald reports that the man claims the FBI ignored his tip in 2008 that he spotted Bulger on the Santa Monica Pier and alerted “America’s Most Wanted.” “The FBI should…
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FBI Returns Stolen Ancient Artifacts to Iraqis
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Terracotta plaques and other ancient artifacts stolen in Iraq by defense contractors in 2004 were returned Thursday by the FBI to the Iraqi government in a ceremony at the Iraqi Cultural Center in Washington. The FBI said it seized the invaluable items during a 2006 investigation. The items included two pottery…
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The FBI Supervisor Who Really Wanted Bulger; Didn’t Trust Bulger as Informant
By DEBORAH BECKER and LISA TOBIN WBUR Radio BOSTON — When Bob Fitzpatrick was brought in as second-in-command of the Boston FBI office back in the early 1980s, it didn’t take him long to figure out something wasn’t right. “It was almost immediate upon my arrival,” he said. It would be 20 more years before…
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Column: Ex-Fed Drug Prosecutor Says He’s Found a Book by Drug Policy Wonks Worth Reading
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com How many books have you read recently that actually changed your thinking on opinions you have held near and dear for decades? Not…
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Ex-U.S. Atty. Who Indicted Bulger in 1995 Shows Up for Not Guilty Plea
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An eclectic mix of folks showed up Wednesday in federal court in Boston to see James “Whitey” Bulger including former U.S. Attorney Donald K. Stern, who insisted on indicting the Boston mobster in 1995 even after the FBI warned him that Bulger was an informant, the Boston Globe reported. “I couldn’t…
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It’s Off to Prison for Smuggler of Lizards
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s not the crime of the century. Nonetheless, it’s prison time for Michael Plank, 42, of Lomita, Calif., who was sentenced Wednesday in Los Angeles federal court to 15 months behind bars for smuggling 15 lizards from Australia into the United States. Essentially, he got one month in prison for every…
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Terrorist Suspect Held Aboard U.S. Navy Ship for 2 Months and Interrogated
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Somali militant with ties to al Qaeda was interrogated aboard a U.S. Navy ship for two months by a High Value Interrogation team that included FBI agents, the LA Times reported. The Times noted that it was the first time the Obama administration detained a terrorism suspect outside of the…
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Computer Geeks Continue to Wreak Havoc
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Computer geeks are wreaking so much havoc we may soon have to have prison just for geeks. The latest: The FBI has busted Jason Cornish, 37, of Smyrna, Ga., with hacking into a New Jersey pharmaceutical company’s computer network and shutting down operations, resulting in losses of at least $300,000, according…