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Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Officials Accused of Hindering FBI Investigation
Steve Neavling tickethewire.com A federal grand jury is investigating whether Los Angeles County jail officials moved an FBI informant to hinder a federal probe into alleged jail abuses, the LA Times reports. Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials moved the inmate several time under a series of aliases and kept him under constant watch, the LA…
Woman Whose Angry Emails Led to CIA Director Petraeus’ Resignation Won’t Be Charged
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Paula Broadwell, whose affair with then-CIA Director David Petraeus led to his resignation, won’t be charged with cyberstalking, NBC News reports. “The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida has decided not to pursue a federal case regarding the alleged acts of ‘cyber-stalking’ involving Paula Broadwell,” a spokesman for…
Florida Man Claims to Be FBI Informant, Exposes Himself to Nurses
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Florida man forced his way onto a plane, claiming he was an FBI informant who was having medical complications and needed to fly to Boston, the Florida Sun-Sentinel reports. When the 28-year-old Fort Myers man was taken to a hospital after faking a seizure, he exposed himself to nurses, asking if…
You Won’t Believe How These People Were Smuggled Across the Border
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Fox 5 San Diego listed some unusual ways people have tried to smuggle drugs and humans across the U.S.-Mexico border. Also included are photos, including one of a man found sewn into the upholstery of a van seat. Other photos depict people hidden in compartments in the floor of a car or hidden…
Former FBI Agent Sentenced to Six Months in Jail for Embezzling Money Intended for Confidential Informants
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI agent who embezzled money from a fund to pay confidential informants was sentenced Monday to six months in federal prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas announced. Timothy Klotz, of Oklahoma, also was sentenced to six months of house arrest after pleading guilty to embezzlement….
NJ Residents Reach Settlement with ICE over Warrantless Home Raids
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Eight New Jersey residents will share $295,000 as part of a settlement in a lawsuit that alleges their homes were raided without warrants, the Associated Press reports U.S. citizen Ana Galindo said officers pointed a gun at her 9-year-old son during the pre-dawn raids. The residents filed a lawsuit in 2008 against…
Gun Lobby Keeps ATF Under-Resourced, Beleaguered As Industry Grows
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Following the mass shooting in a Connecticut elementary school, attention has shifted to the ATF, the federal agency responsible for regulating the gun industry. A Washington Post investigation found that ATF is inadequately resourced and so beleaguered that it hasn’t had a director in years. Sources said the gun industry, particularly the NRA,…
Pentagon: A Top Candidate for Next CIA Director, Michael Vickers, Disclosed Classified Information
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Michael Vickers, among the possible candidates for the next CIA director, leaked classified information about the hunt for Osama bin Laden to filmmakers of an acclaimed movie, Pentagon investigators have concluded, McClatchy Newspapers reports. The Justice Department, however, has declined to pursue criminal prosecution since receiving the…