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Feds Will Be Out in Full Force for Sunday’s Super Bowl
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The feds will be out in full force Sunday for Super Bowl game in Arizona. TMZ reports that the agencies involved in security, which is always very intense, include: — Department of Homeland Security — Immigration and Customs Enforcement — FBI — United States Secret Service — Phoenix PD — Glendale…
Minneapolis FBI Refused to Use Somali Outreach Program to Spy on Groups
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI office deserves kudos for doing the right thing. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that the FBI directed agents in Minneapolis and five other U.S. cities in 2009 to use community outreach with Somali groups as cover to gather intelligence on terrorist recruiting efforts and on individuals who would likely…
Parker: Legendary Tony Bertoni, Retired U.S. Marshal and Former Detroit Cop, Dies at 95
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Anthony (Tony) Bertoni, a legendary law man both at the Detroit Police Department and as United States Marshal, died this past Sunday…
Politico: Eric Holder Plugs His Legacy on Leak Cases
By JOSH GERSTEIN Politico WASHINGTON — A federal jury’s decision Monday to convict a former CIA officer for leaking top-secret information to a New York Times reporter was a big win for prosecutors — and for Attorney General Eric Holder’s new approach to handling sensitive cases involving journalists. Holder decided to spare the reporter in…
Senate Confirmation Hearings Begin Today for Loretta Lynch for Attorney General
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch faces questions Wednesday as Senate confirmation hearings begin for her nomination for Attorney General. It will be the first Republican-lead confirmation session of the Obama administration, the NBC affiliate in New York points out. Lynch, who is considered a very able U.S. Attorney, has gotten praise…
Former Mississippi U.S. Attorney George Phillips Dies at 65 After Battle With Cancer
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com George Phillips, who served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi from 1980 to 1994 and oversaw corruption cases, including the FBI’s Operation Pretense, which led to the prosecutions of 57 Mississippi supervisors on corruption charges, has died the Clarion-Ledger reports.. He was 65. The Clarion-Ledger reports that he…
Killer of Ex-ATF Agent Gets Life
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A man who shot and killed former ATF agent Gregory Holley, 55, while he was walking his dog in northern Virginia a year ago, will spend the rest of his life in prison, WUSA9 reports. Aric Smith, 26, of Woodbridge, Va., a suburb of D.C., was sentenced to two life terms…
DOJ’s Top Public Corruption Investigator, Jack Smith, Takes New Job
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section has overcome some embarrassing blunders, from caving in to politicians to failing to convict former Sen. Ted Stevens and Sen. John Edwards. In 2010, Jack Smith became the head of the beleaguered section, shouldered with the daunting responsibility of improving the prosecutors’ images as…