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FBI Agents Give Up Digging For Mob Victims on Long Island
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com After getting lucky last year and digging up the body of a mobster in East Farmingdale on Long Island, the FBI recently returned with excavation equipment to try its luck again. Apparently luck wasn’t on the agents’ side this time. After three days of digging this past week, the FBI mid-week…
Group Says FBI Using Outdated and Deliberately Limited Search Process in Freedom of Information Act
Anyone who has ever filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the FBI knows it can take forever to get the results. They also know they may not ever get the results they want. A private group, the National Security Archives, is now giving the agency grief about this — and deservedly so. By…
Retired FBI Agent Jerry Breidenfeld Dead At 83
By Joe Holley Washington Post Staff Writer Jerry H. Breidenfeld, 83, a retired agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, died March 6 at Reston Hospital Center of congestive heart failure. He moved to Ashburn in 2006 after living in Reston for many years. Dr. Breidenfeld joined the FBI in 1951 and served in Knoxville,…
Fed Judge Gives ex-Chicago Cop 12 Years in Mob Case
Here’s a police department that could use an upgrade when it comes to its reputation. Previously allegations of torture. Citizen beatings. And now a conviction like this. Not good. By STEVE WARMBIR Chicago Sun-Times CHICAGO –A man can be a good cop one day, a corrupt one the next, a federal judge noted as he…
FBI Arrests ex-D.C. Official in Bribery Sting
The D.C. government is just recovering from its Tax office scandal in which about $50 million was stolen. Now we have another scandal, though thankfully it doesn’t match up to the tax scandal. By Del Quentin Wilber and Nikita Stewart Washington Post Staff Writers WASHINGTON — A D.C. government official and a business executive were…
FBI Agent Says Recent Terrorism Attacks Could Encourage al Qaeda and Others
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI’s James McJunkin told a Congressional Committee Thursday that the “principal lesson from the Mumbai attacks remains that a small number of trained and determined attackers with relatively unsophisticated weapons can do a great deal of damage.” “Last week’s attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahaore,…
Dead Detroit FBI Agent’s Work Leads to Bust
Unfortunately FBI Agent Paul Sorce won’t be around to see this case through, but his work helped bring about the charges. The funeral for the father of four is set for Saturday. BY ZLATI MEYER Deroit Free Press DETROIT — Four Detroit men have been charged as part of a $1.4-million cocaine bust in western…