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FBI Paid $40,000 to Informant Who Helped Bring Down Members of a Neo-Nazi Group
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI paid $40,000 to an undercover informant who infiltrated a neo-Nazi group in Florida and secretly photographed white supremacists, some of whom were arrested last spring, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The informant, Jason Hall, helped determine that the members of American Front were receiving paramilitary training to prepare for an inevitable…
FBI Agents Finally Reach Libyan City Where Four Americans Were Killed in Attack on U.S. Consulate
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A team of FBI agents finally arrived in Benghazi, Libya, to investigate the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate and has narrowed the suspects to one or two people in an extremist group, the Associated Press reports. The AP said agents swooped in before dawn Thursday and left after about 12 hours…
Was Border Agent Victim of Friendly Fire?
STORIES OF OTHER INTEREST FBI Investigates Missing Funds at Marion, Ill Water Department Los Angeles Defiant in Transferring Some Immigrants FBI Searches for More Sexual Victims in Civil Air Patrol ACLU Loses Case to Obtain Records on FBI Secret Program Search for Wanted Terrorist Takes FBI to Facebook and Twitter
Betrayal Of A Mayor: Confidante Says She Gave Detroit Mayor $200,000-Plus In Kickbacks
“A true friend stabs you in the front.” Oscar Wilde By Allan Lengel For Deadline Detroit DETROIT –– Betrayal. There ex-mayor Kwame Kilpatrick sat in federal court Thursday morning, bow tie and suit, leaning at first to the left, looking dour, as if someone was about to punch him in the stomach. In front…
Controversy Heats Up Over Border Patrol’s Shooting of a Mother of Five
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One thing is for sure: A mother of five was killed in her car by a U.S. Border Patrol agent near San Diego. Why the agent opened fire last week on Valeria Tachiquin Alvarado, 32, remains the subject of an investigation and much debate in the heavily Latino suburb of Chula Vista,…
Investigators Still Puzzled Over Shooting that Killed Border Patrol Agent
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As investigators continue to investigate the fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent in the border town of Naco, Ariz., another agent who was shot during the incident was released from the hospital Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times reports. The wounded agent, who still has not been named, was shot in the…
FBI Offers Reward in Search of Massachusetts Man Accused of Training to Kill U.S. Soldiers
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward to help locate a Massachusetts man who was training how to kill Americans soldiers while visiting Pakistan and Yemen, the bureau announced Wednesday. The FBI believes Ahmad Abousamra may be living in Syria with his wife, at least a daughter and extended family. Abousamra allegedly…
FBI: Houston Business Busted for Exporting High-Tech Equipment to Russian Military
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a Houston business accused of illegally exporting high-tech equipment to Russian military and intelligence agencies, the Associated Press reports. Agents executed a search warrant Wednesday at Arc Electronics Inc. in what they said was a secret military procurement network. The AP said agents were searching for microelectronics, which…