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Former Bush Official Pleads to Criminal Contempt of Congress
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The ex-head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, who was appointed by President Bush, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Washington to criminal contempt of Congress “for willfully and unlawfully withholding pertinent information from a House committee investigating his decision to have several government computers wiped” of emails, the U.S….
70-Year-Old Art Dealer Admits Selling Fake Picasso For $2 Million and Lying to FBI
By Allan Lengel For AOL News About three years ago, Los Angeles art dealer Tatiana Khan sold a 1902 pastel by Pablo Picasso for $2 million. She told the buyer it had come from the family of famed publisher Malcolm Forbes and was in fact worth far more. Only problem was the painting was a…
A Philly Cop on FBI Drug Task Force Gets 2 Years for Tipping Off Kingpin About Raid
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Philly police detective working an FBI drug task force was sentenced Monday to two years in prison for tipping off a drug kingpin about a raid in 2005, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Savage in Philadelphia sentenced ex-officer Rickie Durham, 44, to the two years, rejecting…
Ex-FBI Agent Gets 30 Years For Home-Invasion Plot
By Allan Lengel For AOL NEWS A former FBI agent was sentenced Monday in California to 30 years in prison for plotting a violent home invasion of a suspected drug stash house in Orange County in what turned out to be an FBI sting. Vo Duong Tran, 42, of New Orleans, was convicted in March…
NY Port Authority Failed to Find Explosives in Terrorist’s Car After Being Warned by FBI
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Here’s a goof that could have been costly. The Wall Street Journal reports that the FBI warned Port Authority police to search suspected terrorist Najibullah Zazi’s car last September when he drove up to the George Washington Bridge that spans the Hudson River. But noooo. Instead, the police waved Zazi, the…
Dept. Justice to Add 15 Fed Prosecutor Positions and 20 FBI Agents to Battle Intellectual Crimes
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — As part of its ongoing battle against intellectual property crimes domestically and internationally, the Justice Department on Monday announced the appointment of 15 new assistant U.S. Attorneys and 20 FBI agents to address the problem that includes theft of trademarks, copyrights and industrial secrets. The Justice Department said the…
New High Tech Devices Like Smartphones Pose Challenges to FBI and Other Agencies
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Traditionally computers and emails have provided an endless treasure of info for agencies like the FBI, but new devices like smartphones and game consoles are posing challenges for the agencies. That’s what people attending the 2010 Computer Forensics Show last week in New York were told, according to the website Network…