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ATF Admits Mistakes Were Made During Botched Raid at Milwaukee Store
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The head of the ATF’s St, Paul Field Division acknowledged mistakes were made during a botched undercover sting operation of gun and drug dealers at a store in Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The Journal Sentinel recently exposed serious problems during a 10-month ATF sting. Among them: the theft of nearly…
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James Yacone, head of Denver FBI, Leaving to Head Up Elite Bureau Unit in Virginia
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After nearly two years as special agent in charge of the Denver FBI office, James F. Yacone is on his way out to head up an elite FBI unit called Critical Incident Response Group in Virginia, the Denver Post reports. James F. Yacone plans to exit March 15, and he’ll replace Robert…
Former U.S. Attorney: FBI ‘Stonewalled’ Him over ‘Whitey’ Bulger Case in 1990s
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When then-U.S. Attorney Wayne A. Budd was investigating mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, he said the FBI “stonewalled” him in the 1990s when he asked whether Bulger was an informant, MassLive.com reports. The assertion came during a confirmation hearing for Attorney Robert Ullmann, who is seeking appointment on a seat on the…
Nearly Three Dozen Proposals Come in for New FBI Headquarters
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI’s search for a new headquarters has drawn nearly three dozen offers from private and local groups, the Baltimore Sun reports. The FBI wants to abandon its 38-year-old headquarters because it has outgrown the crumbling building and wants to find a new one that can accommodate 2.1 million square feet of offices…
New ATF Head in Minneapolis Pledges to Target “Worst of the Worst” Violent Offenders
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The new head of the Upper Midwest office of the ATF said his priority will be getting violent offenders off the street, the Associated Press reports. Scott Sweetow, who was named special agent in charge of the ATF’s St. Paul Field Division in January, said…
CPB Issues Furlough Notices to Employees to Offset Cuts from the Sequester
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com CPB employees will be furloughed for up to 14 days each because of the spending cuts known as the sequester, the Washington Post reports. Employees will be issued official notices beginning Thursday, the Post wrote. Union leaders of warned a serious impact. “The smuggling organizations are keenly aware of what our…
Indictments Flow in FBI Probe of Prison “Culture” of Covering Up Inmate Beatings
By Van Smith Baltimore City Paper BALTIMORE — The correctional staffers met at a McDonald’s restaurant to get their stories straight. Having already lied to investigators probing the brutal March 2008 beatings of inmate Kenneth Davis at Roxbury Correctional Institution (RCI) in Hagerstown, saying they knew nothing about the incident, they needed to make sure…