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Ex-New Orleans FBI Chief Bernazzani Finds Pen Is Mightier Than the Gun in Youth Initiative
James Bernazzani, who once headed the New Orleans FBI, spent so much time over the years fighting the bad people. Now he’s trying to make sure some of youth in New Orleans don’t turn into those people he battled for so many years. Sheila Stroup New Orleans Times-Picayune NEW ORLEANS — You might wonder why…
Alaska U.S. Attorney Opens Juneau Office
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Alaska, the Frontier State, is spreading its wings. Come next month, it will open a new office in Juneau, the state capital, the Juneau Empire reports. Former Juneau Assistant District Attorney Jack Schmidt, 38, was recently hired to work in that office, which will be housed…
FBI Tracked Legendary Chicago Author Studs Terkel for Decades
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s no surprise that legendary author and Windy City legend Studs Terkel was on the radar of the FBI for decades. After all, he was a civil rights advocate and suspected of being a communist. The New York City News Service reported that it had obtained 147 pages of FBI documents…
11 NY FBI Employees Given Awards for Their Work
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Legendary ex-Los Angeles Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda and Gen. James T. Conway of the Marine Corps were among those who attended the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation awards Friday in New York at the Waldorf Astoria hotel where 11 FBI employees from the New York division received awards for their work. Investigator…
Illinois Gov. and Senator Push for Rural State Prison to House Gitmo Inmates
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In a tough economy, with the potential to create thousands of jobs, it’s still not an easy sell to get a community to house the Gitmo prisoners. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D) and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D) are on an aggressive campaign to counter opposition and create support for the…
Ex-Mississippi Judge Bobby DeLaughter Gets 18 Months for Lying to FBI Agent
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Hinds County, Miss. Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter who made history as a prosecutor in the 1990s, is headed off to jail for lying to an FBI agent during a judicial corruption probe, the Associated Press reported. U.S. District Judge Glen Davidson in Aberdeen, Miss. sentenced him to 18 months in prison,…
Head of FBI D.C. Office Joseph Persichini Jr. Retiring
FBI’s Joseph Persichin Jr./ticklethewire.com photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Joseph Persichini Jr., who has headed the FBI Washington field office for the past three years, is retiring at the end of the year. Persichini, 55, was special agent in charge of the administrative division at the Washington field office before he rose in…
Khalid Sheik Mohammad to be Tried in Fed Court in NY Insteaed of Military CourtAsked
Khalid Sheik Mohammad Some may not agree with this, but frankly it seems like the right thing to do. Americans generally want to have confidence that justice is being carried out fairly and it seems that a trial in the federal court will be more transparent. By Peter Finn and Carrie A. Johnson Washington Post…