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Retired FBI Agent Jailed After Feds Accuse Him of Contacting Potential Witness
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A retired FBI agent accused of trying to derail an investigation into military fraud was jailed Tuesday pending trial after a federal judge in Utah said he violated terms of his release, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. U.S. District Court judge ordered Robert G. Lustyik Jr., 50, to jail after prosecutors provided…
Experts Optimistic That $500M in Stolen Art Will Be Recovered Despite Passing of Nearly 25 Years
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Now that the FBI says it knows the identity of the suspects behind the heist of $500 million of art from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the question is: Will the feds recover rare works after nearly 25 years? Art experts told the Washington Post that the chances are surprisingly good. Christopher…
Ex-Fed Prosecutor a Favorite to Succeed Pat Fitzgerald
By Annie Sweeney and Christi Parsons Chicago Tribune reporters CHICAGO — A former federal prosecutor who helped convict former Gov. George Ryan appears to be the favorite to succeed Patrick Fitzgerald as the next U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, sources in Washington and Chicago told the Tribune. The sources said Zachary Fardon,…
Opinion: FBI’s ‘Deke’ DeLoach
Dan K. Thomasson The Reporter The last time I saw Cartha D. DeLoach was all the way back in the early 1970s, when the nation’s attention was focused on the Watergate scandal. While he wasn’t one of the figures in the constitutional crisis boiling around the Nixon administration, he certainly had been a key in…
Man Poses As FBI Agent Because He Was in Hurry to Pay Phone Bill
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Police are searching for a security guard who said he posed as an FBI agent and sped through San Francisco in a car with flashing lights and a blaring siren because he was rushing to pay his phone bill, the San Francisco Examiner reports. On Monday, a bench warrant was issued for…
FBI Says It Has Identified Thieves in Famous Gardner Museum Art Heist in 1990
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI announced Monday that it has identified the people involved in the theft of $500 million worth of masterworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990. “Today, we are pleased to announce that the FBI has made significant investigative progress in the search for the stolen art…
FBI: ICE Agent Justified in Fatal Shooting of Colleague Who Turned Gun on Boss
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has determined that an ICE agent did nothing wrong when he gunned down a fellow agent who had fired shots at a supervisor in February 2012, the L.A. Times reports. Ezequiel Garcia fired six shots at Kevin Kozak, the Los Angeles field office’s second in command, during a meeting about…
FBI Investigated Whether Wall Street Journal Reporters Bribed Chinese Officials for Information
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s investigation into News Corporation last year included an inquiry into claims that the Wall Street Journal’s China bureau bribed local officials for information, the New York Times reports. It’s unclear what – if anything – the FBI found during the investigation, which originally began over a phone-hacking scandal in 2011. The…