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So Far, FBI Probe Unearths No Evidence of Sen. Menendez Using Young Prostitutes
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI investigation into whether Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., was given prostitutes while staying at a friend’s resort in the Dominican Republic has so far found nothing substantive, the Washington Post reports, citing two people familiar with the investigation. Menendez is accused of accepting the prostitutes and free vacations from an eye…
Column: Obama Administration Gets Free Pass on Use of Drones
John E. Sununu Washington Post Columnist A year ago, Attorney General Eric Holder first spoke in public about the Obama administration’s program to target and kill US citizens overseas. At the time, it seemed an extraordinary assertion of power, and certainly one that no president had previously dared to make. Holder’s speech was intended to…
FBI Closes Kingston Office, Moves Operations to Albany
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI shuttered its Kingston office in New York and moved staff and resources to the Albany offices, the Mid-Hudson News reports. The move will make operations run more smoothly, said FBI spokesman Paul Holstein. “The Albany division did not have any resources diverted away as part of the closing of this…
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WDIV: ‘Almost A Certainty’ FBI Will Dig Up Land In Search For Jimmy Hoffa
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — WDIV’s Kevin Dietz reports that it’s “almost a certainty” that the FBI will dig up land in Oakland Township, north of Detroit, where an ex-mobster claims Jimmy Hoffa’s body is buried. “Half the office wants to go today, the other half wants to wait a few weeks for…
Eric Birnbaum Heads West to Become an SAC in FBI’s Los Angeles Division
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Eric S. Birnbaum, who served as chief inspector of the Inspection Division at headquarters, has been named special agent in charge of the Administrative Division in the Los Angeles office of the FBI. Birnbaum joined the FBI 1988 and was first posted in the Washington Field Office, where he focused on…
The FBI, Some Gay Murders and a Fingerprint Examiner Named Thurman Williams
By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com I was seated, facing Michael Lee Sprague as I interviewed him. We were on the same side of the table. As an FBI agent on the fugitive squad in the Detroit Division, I never liked having anything between me and the person I was interviewing. It was easier to observe body…
Column: The FBI, Some Gay Murders and a Fingerprint Examiner Named Thurman Williams
Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com I was seated, facing Michael Lee Sprague as I interviewed him. We were on the same side of the table. As an FBI agent on the fugitive squad…