April Brooks Named Head of Criminal Division in NY

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com April Brooks, whose career  included investigations into  children-related crimes  and the mysterious death of a Baltimore federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna in 2003, has been named special agent in charge of the Criminal Division in the FBI’s very busy New York Division. Brooks, special assistant to the executive assistant director of the…

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Feds Reduce Size of Immigration Unit in Arizona

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has withdrawn some agents from Phoenix just as local police prepare to enforce Arizona’s new immigration law, The Associated Press reports. The federal agents were responsible for identifying and deporting illegal immigrants. To round up immigrants in other states, ICE began reassigning members of the Phoenix…

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Justice Department Building Case Against Financial Institutions

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. Justice Department is investigating several financial institutions and their employees over the manipulation of interest rates, Reuters reports. Traders at Barclays Plc are among the institutions under investigation related to how banks set the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, Reuters reported, citing sources who spoke on condition of anonymity….

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Former ICE Official Gets 20 Months in Prison

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  A former federal immigration intelligence director was sentenced to 20 months in prison Friday after getting four subordinates to fraudulently claim more than $500,000 in false expense and pay claims, Reuters reports. James M. Woosley, 48, the former acting director of the intelligence office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, pleaded guilty…

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