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Royce Curtain Who Led Fort Hood Investigation is New Head of FBI’s Norfolk Office
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Royce E. Curtin, who led the FBI’s Fort Hood shooting investigation in 2009, has been tapped to head up the agency’s Norfolk Field Office. Curtin last served as chief of staff and special assistant to a high-ranking executive who oversees all FBI criminal, cyber, crisis response, and international operations. Curtin joined…
FBI Probing Suspicious Trading of Heinz Options Just Before Purchase Announcement
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a series of suspiciously well-timed trades just before the $23 billion acquisition of H.J. Heinz Co., the New York Times reports. The probe comes as the Security and Exchange Commission froze a Swiss account tied to possible insider trading. The New York Times wrote that the well-timed options…
FBI Destroyed Files It Kept on ex-New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI kept files on former New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger but destroyed them about 10 months before his death, the New York Times reports. Sulzberger was heading the newspaper during the publication of the Pentagon Papers, which traced the U.S.’s doomed involvement in Vietnam. The discovery was made by…
FBI Agent, Fugitive Injured in Shootout in Las Vegas Over Arrest Warrant
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent and fugitive were both wounded in a frantic shootout in Las Vegas Tuesday afternoon, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. The agent, whose identity has not yet been released and who was wearing a protective vest, suffered injuries that are not life-threatening, the Las Vegas Review-Journal wrote. The suspect, whose…
Terrorism Suspect in Tampa Bay Was Under Watch by Sophisticated FBI Equipment
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hundreds of federal agents used sophisticated surveillance to investigate a 25-year-old terrorism suspect in Tampa Bay, ABC Action News reports. Sami Osmakac, who is accused of plotting to blow up several locations in Tampa Bay, was arrested in January 2012 and is awaiting trial. For more than a year before the arrest,…
FBI Investigates 6 Philadelphia Cops Accused of Planting Drugs, Stealing Money
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hundreds of people may be unjustly behind bars because of six Philadelphia cops accused of planting drugs and stealing money, NBC 6 Philadelphia reports. The FBI is investigating the former narcotics officers who were transferred to other duties pending the outcome of the investigation, NBC 6 reported, but the details are unclear….
Opinion: Automatic Budget Cuts Would Hamper Progress on Immigration Reform
Opinion The Bakersfield Californian The prospect for real bipartisan progress on immigration reform may take a serious hit if sequestration, the automatic cuts scheduled for March 1, take place. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano informed the Senate Appropriations Committee last week the cuts will result in a workforce-hours reduction equivalent to 5,000 Border Patrol agents,…
FBI Warns Parents About Growing Trend to Exploit Girls on Social Media
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It usually starts out as a friendly message to teen girls on Facebook or Twitter. But once the perpetrator gains the trust of the girl, he encourages her to send a nude picture, KCTV 5 News reports. If she doesn’t, he threatens to show their messages to the principal. Christopher Patrick Gunn,…