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Secret Service Ousts 3 More Agents, Bringing Total to 6
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The fallout from the Secret Service-prostitute scandal continued Friday. The Washington Post reported that three more agents linked to the prostitution scandal have been forced out, bringing the total to six. The Post also reported that the Secret Service announced that another person in the Secret Service has been…
FBI and NYPD Reopen 1979 Etan Patz Disappearance
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com The disappearance of 6-year- old New York boy Etan Patz 33 years ago has never been resolved nor forgotten. The New York Times reports 40 police and FBI investigators swarmed a SoHo art storage space on Thursday morning, ready to disassemble the 13 by 62 foot space brick by brick in search…
Judge Orders Ex-Congressman William Jefferson to Prison
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Prison is calling for ex-Congressman William Jefferson, the New Orleans politician who gained national fame after the FBI found $90,000 stuffed in his freezer in 2005. Bruce Alpert, the star reporter for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, reports that the fed judge in the case on Friday ordered Jefferson, 65, to report…
FBI Busts 15 in $8.7 Mil Midwest Unemployment Insurance Scam
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com In general, the entrepreneurial spirit should be lauded. Unfortunately, in this case, it was purely criminal. According to an FBI press release, 15 defendants allegedly registered 80 fake business names in Illinois, Indiana and Minnesota, then used these to file for unemployment insurance benefits to the tune of $8.7 Million. Defendants reportedly…
FBI Impersonator Busted in Georgia
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com It’s unclear what would make a Georgia man strut around a convenience store pretending to be an undercover agent, but his days of make-believe appear to be over — at least for now. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Charles Roger Gamble was indicted by a grand jury in Clarke County, Georgia this…
Lawmakers Urge FBI to Track Hate Crimes Against Sikh-Americans
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sikh-Americans, with their unique attire, have sometimes been mistaken in America as being part of some extremist groups and have been subject to hate crimes, according to the Indo-Asian News Service. Consequently, as many as 92 US lawmakers have urged the FBI to collect data on hate crimes against Sikh-Americans, the…
Sarah Palin on Ousted Secret Service Agent: Joke is On You
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Secret Service scandal has not been without its politics including from ex-vp candidate Sarah Palin. The Washington Post reported that David Chaney, one of two supervisors ousted this week in the Secret Service prostitution scandal in Colombia, posted a Facebook photo of Palin in Janaury 2009 that said; “I was…