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Former Chicago Worker Sues City, Says She Was Fired by Alderman for Cooperating with FBI
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former 12th Ward employee is suing the city and her former boss, Alderman George Cardenas, after she said she was fired for answering questions from the FBI about “illegal hiring practices and other illegal operations,” The Chicago Sun-Times reports. The whistleblower lawsuit claims she was illegally terminated after cooperating with federal…
FBI Agents in Chicago Give Seriously Ill Boy a Memory He’ll Never Forget
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Special Agent Michael Rees was so saddened by a newspaper article in April about a seriously ill boy that he sprang to action. The Chicago Tribune reports that the boy, Sammy Nahorny, was undergoing a unique high-dose radiation therapy for neuroblastoma, a deadly pediatric cancer that required the Nebraska child to…
Baltimore Prosecutor: FBI Agents Won’t Be Charged in Fatal Owing Mills Shooting
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents won’t be charged after opening fire on a suspected gang member in Baltimore, according to a report on the fatal shooting, the Baltimore Sun reports. The decision was made by the Baltimore County state’s attorney’s office, which decided that the agents were acting in self-defense. Agents fired 19 rounds, striking…
Texas Dispatches State Agents to Mexico Border to Help Growing Crisis Over Immigrant Children
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com To address the growing humanitarian crisis along the Texas-Mexico border, Texas officials are dispatching more state law enforcement officials to the southern border as immigrant children are forced to stay in cramped, squalid conditions, the USA Today reports. Gov. Rick Perry said the plan is to deploy more Department of Public Safety…
U.S. Senate Mulls House Measure That Would Crack Down on DEA Raids of Medical Marijuana
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Senate is considering a measure already approved by the House that would ban the DEA from using its budget to target marijuana users in states where cannabis is legal for medical purposes, the Huffington Post reports. The amendment to the Justice Department’s budget was introduced by Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY, who…
Doomsday Man Surrenders After Spending 2 Days in Woods in Florida, Gets Cheeseburgers, Fries
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After spending two days hiding from authorities in the woods, a Florida man accused of building explosive devices to prepare for the end of the world surrendered Wednesday without incident, the Tampa Bay Times reports. Martin Winters waited outside the FBI field office in Tampa while his attorneys arranged for his surrender….
U.S. Captures Suspected Mastermind of Benghazi Attacks Without Firing a Single Bullet
Steve Neavling ticklethwire.com The alleged mastermind of the deadly Benghazi attack in 2012 has finally been captured – and not a single bullet was used, CNN reports. U.S. commandos and law enforcement spent days monitoring Ahmed Abu Khatallah before his capture Tuesday. Khatallah’s arrest is the first connected to the 2012 attack on the U.S….
Judge: Even Convicted Terrorists Have Right to Call Friends, Relatives from Prison
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Even a convicted terrorist has a right to communicate with friends and relatives. So ruled U.S. District Judge Marcia Krieger in the case of Khalfan Khamis Mohammed, who sued the FBI because he was barred from communicating with a list of 32 friends and relatives, the Associated Press reports. Mohammed, who is…