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FBI Move to $150M New Chelsea, Mass. HQ in Limbo
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Are sour grapes delaying construction of the FBI’s new $150 million regional headquarters in Chelsea, Massachusetts? Slated to begin construction late last year (never happened) bid-winning developer Emerald Corporate Center LLC, a division of ACS Development Corp. is facing a lawsuit from losing-bidder Boston Harbor Development Partners, an arm of Pappas Enterprises…
5 Gambino Gangsters Plead Guilty to Laundry List of Dirty Deeds
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Racketeering, narcotics trafficking, assault, extortion, murder? Just another day-in-the-life of a Gambino mobster. Five Gambino wise guys pled guilty this week to a range of nefarious charges, announced Preet Bharara, NY U.S Attorney in Manhattan. Working as “soldiers” and “associates” of the Gambino crime family, Vincenzo Frogiero, Todd Labarca, John Brancaccio, Christopher…
Feds Urge Locals to Stay Alert
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Could the Secret Service Scandal be Bigger?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Just when it looked as if the Secret Service might be able to wrap up its prostitution mess sooner than later. CBS is reporting that authorities were looking into the possibility that Secret Service agents may have paid for hookers and strippers in El Salvador while being part of an advance team…
DEA Busts T.S.A. Screeners at LAX for Letting Drugs Through Security
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com This time it was drugs slipping through security for a few thousand in bribes. Next time? Who knows? One federal prosecutor noted that next time it could be dangerous materials. The L.A. Times reports that the DEA has busted four former and current TSA agents at LAX. They allegedly accepted cash to…
New ATF Special Agent In Charge of LA Field Division
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Steven J. Bogdalek is the new head of ATF in Los Angeles, which includes Southern California, the agency announced. Bogdalek began his career with ATF in Detroit in 1987, according to the PR Newswire. From 2002 until this latest appointment, he served as Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the St. Paul…
Postmodern Mashup: CouponBuzz Capitalizes on Secret Service Scandal
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Was the Secret Service scandal really about finding love in all the wrong places? Or agents simply failing to take advantage of online dating services? Well, Online marketing site CouponBuzz pokes fun at the recent Secret Service-Colombian prostitution debacle by holding it up as an example of today’s singles struggling to connect….
President Carter Comments on Secret Service Scandal
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