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Public Corruption Expert Selected to Head FBI’s Connecticut Office
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Patricia Ferrick, who served as the FBI’s public corruption chief, was selected Monday to run the bureau’s Connecticut office, the Connecticut Post reports. Ferrick, who began her career with the New York Police Department, is now in charge of about 100 agents in three offices. Outgoing FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III…
FBI Turns Focus on Cyber Attacks in US
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is combating a surge in cyberattacks on corporate America, trying to stop a growing number of people from hacking websites and disturbing commerce, the Los Angeles Times reports. In just the past month, a group called the Syrian Electronic Army crippled the New York Times website for several hours. Hackers…
Ex-FBI Bomb Technician Pleads Guilty to Disclosing National Defense Info to Associated Press
By Sari Horwitz Washington Post WASHINGTON –– A former FBI bomb technician who later worked as a contractor for the Bureau has agreed to plead guilty to disclosing national defense information about a disrupted terrorist plot to the Associated Press, according to the Justice Department. Donald John Sachtleben, 55, of Carmel, Ind., who previously had…
Bernie Kerik’s Sentence Officially Ends Oct. 15
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Disgraced NY Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik was released from prison in late May, and has been serving out the remainder of his sentence under house arrest at his home in Franklin Lakes, N.J. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons inmate locator says Kerik, 58, will officially finish his sentence Oct. 15. He…
FBI: Were Americans Involved in Terror Attack at Kenyan Mall?
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is trying to determine whether as many as five Americans were part of a team of terrorists who took over a Kenyan mall over the weekend, unleashing an attack that led to the death of at least 68 people, NBC News reports. The probe comes after a group purporting to…
New FBI Director Comey Is Battling More Than Crime in First Weeks in Office
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Just two weeks into his job at the helm of the FBI, James B. Comey is combating more than global terrorism, government corruption and organized crime. The budget sequester is forcing the bureau to reduce its $8.1 billion budget by $800 million, adding to the list of pressures on the FBI, the…
FBI Busts Georgia Sheriff’s Deputy for Selling Pot Out of Squad Car
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Georgia sheriff’s deputy is accused of peddling pot from his squad car. The FBI said Darrell Mathis, 40, sold a pound of marijuana to an undercover agent and then coordinated a drug-selling scheme with another agent, the New York Daily News reports. That scheme involved Mathis transporting pot to another state,…
ATF, Already Struggling to Show Relevancy, Snubbed in Navy Yard Shooting Investigation
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Although the ATF is tasked with tracing guns used in crimes, the agency was virtually left out of the Navy Yard shooting investigation, CBS News reports. That task was given to the FBI, which located the store where the gun was purchased within a few hours of the shooting. It was unusual…