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FBI Joins Probe of Woman Missing from Cruise Ship
Granted, an endless numbers of people go on cruises every year. But it just takes one of these incidents to make them sound so dangerous. By Sofia Santana South Florida Sun-Sentinel MIAMI – Cruise ship surveillance images show a woman falling overboard hours before her husband reported her missing from the Miami-based Norwegian Pearl last…
Ex-FBI Agent Robert Hart Named President of Manhattan-based Consulting Firm
Robert Hart was named president of Pathfinder Consultants International LLC, a Manhattan-based investigative, security and consulting firm, Newsday reported. Hart of Garden City resident was senior agent in charge of the Long Island office of the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
![Chinese Women Made It Into FBI Academy Before Getting Busted For a Sham Marriage to Get Citizenship](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/fbi-academy.jpg)
Chinese Women Made It Into FBI Academy Before Getting Busted For a Sham Marriage to Get Citizenship
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 26-year-old Chinese woman made it into the FBI academy to train as an agent before authorities busted her for entering into a sham marriage to obtain U.S. citizenship. Yue Cheng of Williamsburg, Va. pleaded guilty last week in Norfolk, Va., to naturalization fraud and false claims. She faces up to…
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FBI Kept Tabs on Politician Thomas Eagleton
It didn’t take much to tick off J. Edgar Hoover. The reams of FBI records on Thomas Eagleton was just another example of Hoover’s long reach. By Phillip O’Connor ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ST. LOUIS — Sitting in the coffee shop of the Las Vegas Desert Inn one morning in February 1958, Thomas Eagleton, one of…
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Tangled Tale of How Private Spy Firm Helped the Feds Bust An Afghan Heroin Trafficker and Got Screwed
Well, as the old addage goes, No Good Deed Goes Unpunished. In this case, the spy firm, Rosetta Research and Consulting, helped the feds make their case, then got screwed. By Richard Leiby Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — After a federal jury in New York swiftly convicted a major Afghan heroin trafficker and Taliban…
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Justice Dept. I.G. Glenn Fine Wins National Law Journal Award
If you want to be loved by everyone, don’t become an Inspector General. Folks on the outside constantly want you to crack things wide open. People on the inside avoid you like you’re Bernie Madoff’s best friend. By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Justice Department’s internal watchdog won the National Law Journal’s top honor…
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FBI Agent in Sen. Stevens Case Lodges Explosive Allegations Against Government
By Allan Lengel Ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – An FBI agent involved in the Sen. Ted Stevens public corruption case is accusing the government of “violations of policy, rules and procedures as well as possible criminal violations” that include disclosing names of grand jury witnesses during the investigation and altering a document that was later turned over…