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Counterterrorism Expert Named as Head of FBI’s Chicago Office
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Robert Holley, one of the FBI’s premier counterterrorism experts, was tapped to head the bureau’s Chicago office, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The 55-year-old will join the Chicago office as the new Special Agent in Charge in October, the Sun-Times wrote. Holley worked in Chicago in the past as the office’s lead counterterrorism…
Former FBI Informant Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison for Same Crime He Was Helping Investigate
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former college professor who was working as an FBI informant investigating mortgage fraud was sentenced to four years and four months in prison Thursdsay for hatching his own mortgage fraud scheme, The Plain Dealer reports. Paul Tomko asked for leniency but got none from U.S. District Judge Christopher Boyko. Tomko pleaded…
FBI’s Public Face in Navy Yard Investigation Grew Up in Rural New York
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com For anyone following the investigation into the Washington Navy Yard shooting, the face of Valerie Parlave may be familiar. Parlave, assistant director in charge of the FBI Washington Field Office, is responsible for informing the public about what happened when a gunman entered Navy Yard and opened fire, the Democrat and Chronicle…
New Head of FBI Office in Boston Pledges to Continue Probing Boston Marathon Bombing
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Newly appointed chief of Boston’s FBI office, Vincent Lisi, said his office is nowhere close to being finished investigating the Boston marathon bombing shootings, The Boston Globe reports. “We owe that to the victims of the bombing,” Vincent B. Lisi, special agent in charge of the Boston FBI, told the Globe. “Our…
Obama Nominates Leslie Caldwell to Top Post in Justice Department Division
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A defense lawyer whose expertise is white-collar crime was nominated Tuesday to be assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s criminal division, the New York Times reports. President Obama nominated Leslie R. Caldwell, a former federal prosecutor who worked in the Northern District of California and the Eastern District of New York….
OIG Report: Border Patrol Lacks Proper Training, Reporting on Use of Force
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A new report suggests reforms at Border Patrol are needed to prevent excessive use of force, NBC Latino reports. Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General generated the report at the request of Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, and 15 members of Congress following media reports of an undocumented immigrant who died in…
Border Patrol Agents Came Under Rock Attack While Stopping Illegal Crossing
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. Border Patrol agents who were trying to prevent a group of undocumented immigrants from entering the U.S. over the weekend came under attack, the El Paso Times reports. The agents spotted eight people illegally crossing the border in El Paso on Sunday, sparking a rock attack. Luckily none of the agents…
FBI Investigating Why Practicing Buddhist Opened Fire at Navy Yard in D.C.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A practicing Buddhist known as a “peaceful soul” by friends was the gunman behind the Washington Navy Yard shooting rampage Monday that claimed a dozen lives, including his own, the Washington Times reports. Now the FBI is trying to determine why Aaron Alexis would open fire at the historic Washington Navy Yard…