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FBI Probes Border Patrol Shooting That Killed Mexican
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating the death of a Mexican resident who was allegedly shot over the Rio Grande River by a U.S. Border Patrol agent, the Associated Press reports. The 29-year-old man was killed Saturday by a single bullet over the border from Brownsville, Texas. A spokesman for the Border Patrol said…
FBI Promotes Public Corruption Expert to New Orleans Post
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has promoted an expert on public corruption as the new Special Agent in Charge of the New Orleans Division, feds announced Monday, reports Examiner.com. Michael J. Anderson worked public corruption cases in the Miami Division before being promoted to special agent in the Public Corruption Unit of the FBI’s Criminal…
FBI Joins Probe Into Explosives Found Under Orange County Bridge
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is helping investigating a cache of explosives found under a bridge in Orange County Monday, the LA Times reports. People working on a drain ditch found a backpack full of grenades, blasting caps and fuse igniters. If ignited, the explosive would have caused “major structural damage to the bridge,” Orange…
Column: Ex-DEA Official Questions Fast and Furious and IG’s Slow Response
Robert J. Nieves is a partner in the firm BERG Associates. He retired from DEA in 1995 as the chief of international operations. By Robert J. Nieves Washington Times Anyone who has spent time in Washington knows government runs on process. There is a procedure for everything, and this is especially true in federal law enforcement,…
Five Charged in Border Agent Brian Terry’s Death: $1 Million Award Offered for Info on Whereabouts of 4
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department announced on Monday the indictment of five people in connection with the 2010 death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, and a $1 million reward from the FBI for info leading to the arrest of four the defendants who remain at large. Authorities unsealed the indictment in…
FBI Probes Link Between Nightclub Operator and Son of Federal Judge
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a link between the son of a U.S. district judge and a Las Vegas nightclub operator who received a lenient sentence in a $7 million tip-concealment scheme, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. Agents want to know about Brian Dawson’s employment as a bartender at clubs associated with Steve…
FBI Spied on Civil Rights Commission Worker
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com New records show the FBI was secretly monitoring a U.S. Civil Rights Commission worker decades ago to keep a better eye on black activists in Memphis, Tenn., the Associated Press reports. The FBI collected photographs of Rosetta Miller-Perry, studied her political views and even investigated her love life, according to the Commercial…
FBI: Mexican Drug Cartel Profits Invested in U.S. Horse Racing
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Mexican drug cartel is accused of using Bank of America Corp. to invest money generated from selling cocaine into U.S. horse racing, Bloomberg reports. Jose Trevino-Morales, the brother of the cartel’s alleged leader, was indicted by a grand jury June 11. “The ultimate goal of this money laundering operation was to…