By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Retired DEA supervisor John Cipriano, who investigated organized crime, has died at age 66, the New York Daily News reported. The cause of death was attributed to complications following a kidney transplant. The Daily News reported that Cipriano retired in 1998 and joined the New York Civilian Complaint Review Board, where…
Karen Loeffler/jason kohler-ktuu-tv By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Karen Loeffler officially became Alaska’s first female U.S. Attorney on Friday. Loeffler was sworn in at a ceremony in the U.S. District Courthouse in Anchorage, KTUU-tv reported. Former U.S. Attorney Robert Bundy administered the oath to Loeffler and described her as a brilliant attorney and state shooter, the…
Former US Attorney General Michael Mukasey, FBI Assistant Director in Charge (ADIC) Joseph Demarest Devorah Halberstam and the Honorable Rudolph Giuliani, Former Mayor of New York. Photo credit: Matthew Coleman, FBI By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Devorah Halberstam, whose son was killed in a terrorist attack on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1994, was honored last week…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Daphne Hearn, special assistant to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, has been named special agent in charge of the bureau’s Intelligence Division in Los Angeles Hearn, a Kansas City, Mo. native, began her FBI career in 1991. She started out in Buffalo and got involved in an organized…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Eaton, a 30-year veteran of the FBI, who retired in 1972 as the unit supervisor in the fingerprinting division, died last month in Washington at age 103 from atherosclerosis, the Washington Post reported. The long time Washington resident was born in Cortland, N.Y. and moved to the Washington…
Kevin Favreau/fbi photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – There’s been a little game of musical chairs at the FBI as of late. Kevin Favreau is leaving the mothership in Washington to become special agent in charge of the FBI’s Las Vegas Division. He was mostly recently assistant director of the Directorate of Intelligence at…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Jeffrey C. Johnson has been named the FBI’s assistant director for the Office of Information Technology Systems Development. He will also assume the role of the agency’s chief technology officer, the FBI announced Thursday. Before joining the bureau in August, he worked in the private sector where “he managed…
Miller Helped Convict James Hoffa By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Herbert J. “Jack” Miller Jr. lead the Justice Department’s war on organized crime in the 1960s under Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, and helped convict legendary Teamster James Hoffa , according to the Washington Post. On the flip side, as a top notch D.C. defense…
