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Despite Popular Belief, Mobster Didn’t Help Solve 1964 Killings of 3 Civil Rights Workers
By Jerry Mitchell The Clarion-Ledger No matter where I speak about the Ku Klux Klan’s 1964 killings of three civil rights workers, I inevitably get asked this question: Did the Mafia really help the FBI solve the case? The people who ask that question have usually heard some version of this story: Desperate to solve…
Secret Service Helps Nab Peruvian Who Printed $4.5M in Counterfeit Money
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Peruvian man is accused of printing millions of dollars in counterfeit U.S. currency, Bloomberg reports. Authorities arrested Pedro Sosa Inca Casana, 42, as he emerged from a taxi with $1.9 million in counterfeit bills, the Secret Service said. Authorities said the suspect was operating a counterfeiting operation out of a downtown…
Border Patrol Cancels Flights for Central American Migrants Squeezed into Texas Facility
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Flights that were scheduled to begin flying Central American immigrants from Texas to California today to ease up on overcrowded conditions have been canceled, NBC News reports. What’s unclear is why the flights were stopped, said Ralph DeSio, a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection. “This whole thing is in a very…
ATF Arrests Dr. Death in Sacramento for Allegedly Making Assault Rifles in Metal Shop
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Sacramento man known as “Dr. Death” was faces gun-making charges after he was arrested Friday by the ATF, the Sacramento Bee reports. The arrest follows a grand jury indictment of Daniel Crowninshield, 45, of Sacramento, who has been charged with unlawfully making firearms and possessing machine guns. According to authorities, Crowninshield,…
Parker: Strongest Medical Evidence Yet of the Harm from Marijuana Legalization
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 The evidence continues to mount of the dangerous health risks of today’s potent forms of marijuana, especially to segments of the…
Weekend Series on Crime: The Mob
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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…