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FBI Investigates Hacking Attempt Targeting Jacksonville International Airport
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating what appears to be a hacking attempt from a “foreign party” targeting Jacksonville International Airport, First Coast News reports. Investigators said the hacking attempt was unsuccessful. “There was an incident that occurred around Thanksgiving and the FBI is investigating,” JAA spokesperson Michael Stewart said in a statement….
Richard Frankel Becomes Agent in Charge of Newark Division in New Jersey
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Richard Frankel, who began his FBI career as a special agent in the New York Field Office in 1995, is the new agent in charge of the bureau’s Newark Division, MyCentralJersey.com reports. Comey named Frankel to the position after serving in several different positions in New York. He fought organized crime…
ACLU Sues Border Patrol for Records on Questionable ‘Roving Patrols’
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The ACLU sued Border Patrol to get more insight into the use of “roving patrols,” Reuters reports. The suit comes after the CBP ignored a July 2014 request under the Freedom of Information Act to release information on the patrols, which lead to people being stopped more than 100 miles from…
ATF Investigates Alleged Affair Between Agent, Prosecutor During Storefront Investigations
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An ATF agent and a prosecutor had a secret affair while working together on controversial storefront operations in Georgia and are under investigation following allegations they illegally helped in informant, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The storefront investigations were the subject of intense scrutiny following alarming reports by the Journal Sentinel…
FBI Investigating Voter Fraud, Financial Mismanagement in The Bronx
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating voter fraud and financial mismanagement of politicians in The Bronx, the New Work Post reports. The probe comes at a time when Albany’s power shifted to Bronx politicians after Sheldon Silver stepped down as speaker of the New York Assembly following his arrest by the FBI. Replacing…
Puerto Rico Man Charged with Threatening U.S. Attorney from Prison
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Puerto Rico man has been arrested and charged with threatening a U.S. Attorney while in jail, the FBI said Monday. Jose Villafane-Cotto was charged last week with mailing threatening communication and threatening a federal official. He is accused of threatening U.S. Attorney Rose Emilia Rodriguez Velez of the District of…
Second-in-Command Ousted at Secret Service Days Before House Testimony
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Just months after Secret Service Director Julia Pierson was forced out of her job, the second-ranking official was stepping down, the Secret Service said Monday. The Washington Post reports that Deputy Director Alvin “A.T.” Smith was ousted just three days before he was to testify during a House oversight committee about…
Records: FBI Spied on Numerous African American Authors, Scholars for Decades
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and its notoriously paranoid director J. Edgar Hoover spied on prominent African American writers for decades, monitoring their activities and critiquing their work. The Guardian reports that newly declassified documents from the FBI show extensive surveillance of black writers and scholars, including Langston Hughes, James Baldwin and Claude McKay….