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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…
DEA Shakes Up Drug Trafficking in Central America
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA is shaking up the drug war in Central America following two lethal DEA-related shootings of suspected Honduras drug smugglers, The Global Post reports. The shooting deaths of trafficking suspects on June 23 and July 3 is part of a new DEA mission called “Operation Anvil” in which U.S. agents team up…
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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has withdrawn some agents from Phoenix just as local police prepare to enforce Arizona’s new immigration law, The Associated Press reports.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…
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….
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…
Three Men Accused of Stealing Weapons from FBI Agent’s Car in Mississippi
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Chances are when you break in to an FBI agent’s government issued car you’re not going to get away with it. Agents have a tendency to really want to find the missing equipment, particularly when it involves guns. The Associated Press reported that three men have been charged with stealing or…
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Column: Now More Than Ever I Believe Bo Schembechler Would Have Done Right Thing in Penn State Scandal
Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com Last November I wrote a column about how I thought legendary Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler would have handled the Penn State scandal. Since then Joe Paterno was fired…