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Columnist: Justice Department Must Start Jailing Criminal Bankers
By Laurence Kotlikoff Forbes Contributor People of little means in our country are routinely being incarcerated for minor crimes. Meanwhile, big-time criminals engaging in major financial crimes that effectively involve the theft of billions of dollars from the public aren’t being prosecuted. Today we learned of yet another huge settlement by five of the largest banks…
Feds Nab Dozens of Crips in New Jersey; 1 Charged with Plotting to Kill FBI Agent
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Members of a violent criminal street gang in New Jersey were arrested after federal authorities said at least one of them was plotting to murder an FBI plot, WABC reports. A state, local and federal investigation culminated in the arrests of 71 people allegedly connected to the Grape Street Crips gang….
DEA Agents Busted Lying About Secret Ownership of Strip Club
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two DEA workers are accused of secretly running a strip club in New Jersey and then lying about their ownership interests during national security background checks. The New York Times reports that the officials were David Polos, who most recently served as an assistant special agent in charge, and Glen Lover, a…
FBI: Women Looking for Love Online Targeted Most Often by Internet Scams
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com. People looking for love online are targeted for Internet fraud more than anyone else, the FBI revealed in its annual online fraud report. The Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3, said romance confidence scams cost victims an average of $14,214. Although men are slightly more likely to be victimized by Internet…
Secret Service Kept Busy Monitoring President Obama’s New Twitter Account
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama’s decision to join Twitter unleashed a torrent of hateful, even threatening tweets that have already caught the attention of the Secret Service. Not only that, the White House is archiving every response to @POTUS, the Washington Post reports. So the newspaper kindly reminds readers to be wise when tweeting…
Liberal Think Tank: ATF Should Merge with FBI to Reduce Firearms Crime
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The ATF is not equipped to handle gun violence and should be merged with the FBI to reduce firearms crime, according to a liberal think tank with strong ties to President Obama, the Washington Post reports. The Center of American Progress provided a 182-page report that argued the ATF is hamstrung…
Prosecutor: Border Patrol Agent Justified in Fatal Shooting
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol agent was justified when he fatally shot a 20-year-old Canadian who crossed the border illegally in March and sprayed the agent with bear spray, the Associated Press reports. Whatcom County Prosecutor Dave McEachran said the agent did everything he could to avoid a fatal encounter with Jamison Edward…
DEA Arrests 2 in Largest-Ever Seizure of Heroin in NYC History
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The bust was so big that federal authorities are already calling it the largest seizure of heroin in New York City history. The DEA helped nab a pair of suspected Bronx drug traffickers in what turned out to be the largest seizure of heroin in the city’s history, NBC New York…