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Jason Bateman to Star In, Direct FBI Wedding Comedy at Universal Pictures
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Jason Bateman has been named the star and director of an upcoming FBI wedding comedy from Universal Pictures, Time reports. This will be Bateman’s third time as a director. The studio has not yet released a movie title or release time for the movie. Universal purchased the rights for the movie from…
Attorney Finds Errors in Report by Director Freeh on Penn State Abuse Scandal
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An attorney charged with challenging a landmark report on the Penn State University investigation slammed the findings, saying they are inaccurate and misleading, the Pittsburgh Tribune Review reports. The attorney, Michael L. Bangs, criticized the author of the report, former FBI Director Louis Freeh. Bangs questions every page of the 267-page review…
New York Times Reporter, Author Faces Jail Time If He Refuses to Testify About Book Leak
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A New York Times reporter may face jail time if he refuses to testify about who leaked information to him for a book he wrote on the botched CIA operation in Iran. The New York Times reports that James Risen, author of “State of War,” has steadfastly refused to testify, but he has…
AP: Border Patrol Has Plenty of Agents During Crisis, But They Are in Wrong Places
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Border Patrol may have enough employees to handle the flood of immigration, but the Associated Press found that the agency places too many agents in the wrong places. The AP report indicates that many agents are stationed in areas where crossing activity is slow because of the “constantly shifting migration patterns.”…
FBI Handed British Prosecutors Mountain of Emails from Murdoch’s News Corp.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI gave British prosecutors access to about 80,000 emails from Robert Murdoch’s News Corp. as part of the ongoing phone-hacking scandal involving the media giant, the New York Daily News reports. The news came Thursday as Murdoch was in London dealing with the conviction of one of his former star editors,…
Weekend Series on Crime History: The Detroit Mob
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Movie review: ‘Whitey’ Documentary Gives Too Much Legitimacy to Claim That Bulger Wasn’t Informant
By Kevin Cullen Boston Globe I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Joe Berlinger made a pretty good documentary about Whitey Bulger, but it is seriously undermined by his treating far too seriously Bulger’s claim that he was never an informant for the FBI. Whitey insists he had no idea that when he…
Honduran First Lady Visits South Texas to Witness Crisis of Unaccompanied Children Immigrants
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The first lady of Honduras is visiting South Texas immigration shelters beginning today after news broke about a growing crisis involving tens of thousands of unaccompanied children who were confined to overcrowded, squalid conditions at the border, KXAN reports. Ana Garcia de Hernandez is just the latest in a growing number of…