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Head of FBI D.C. Office Joseph Persichini Jr. Retiring
FBI’s Joseph Persichin Jr./ticklethewire.com photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Joseph Persichini Jr., who has headed the FBI Washington field office for the past three years, is retiring at the end of the year. Persichini, 55, was special agent in charge of the administrative division at the Washington field office before he rose in…
Ex-FBI Agent and Former TV Anchor Thomas Wassell Dead at Age 84
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Thomas Wassell, a former FBI agent who went on to become well-known Atlanta TV news anchor, has died at age 84 in Atlanta, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Wassell worked as an agent from 1951 to 1960 in Chicago and Miami and later went on to become an anchorman at WSB-tv in…
Baltimore FBI Building to Be Named After Slain Agent Sam Hicks
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI’s Baltimore field office will be named after agent Sam Hicks, who was killed last Nov. 19 in a shooting in the Pittsburgh area while serving an arrest warrant in a drug case, the Associated Press reported. The AP reported that Hicks’ wife Brooke and their son Noah…
Son of CIA Case Officer Takes Charge of FBI Salt Lake City Office
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — James McTighe, the son of a CIA case officer, will take charge of the FBI’s Salt Lake City Division, replacing Timothy J. Fuhrman, who was recently named special agent in charge of the Mobile, Ala. office. McTighe had last served as special assistant for deputy director John Pistole at…
FBI’s Rich Kolko and Brian Hale Leaving FBI Mothership
Rich Kolko (left) and FBI’s Jeff McCrehan at going away party/ticklethewire.com photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Two key people in the FBI’s National Press Office have just left the mothership to take on duties elsewhere. FBI special agent Rich Kolko, chief of the FBI’s National Press Office, is moving up to the FBI’s…
Iowa’s U.S. Atty. Matthew Whitaker to Step Down
U.S. Atty. Whitaker/doj photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Des Moines U.S. Attorney Matthew G. Whitaker, a former All-American football player for the University of Iowa, has announced his resignation, effective when his successor is officially appointed. “Being United States Attorney is the greatest professional experience and honor of my life, ” Whitaker said in a…
Senate Judiciary Gives the Nod to Mass. and Ga. U.S. Attys
Edward Tarver/campaign photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate Judiciary committee on Thursday gave the nod for U.S. Attorneys in Massachusetts and Georgia. The U.S. Senate will now vote on the nominations. The committee’s nod went to Carmen Milagros Ortiz of Massachusetts and Ed Tarver of the southern District of Georgia.