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Major Mexican Cartel Player Sentenced to 25 Years
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The former leader of the Tijuana Cartel/Arellano-Felix Organization was sentenced Monday in San Diego fed court to 25 years in prison, the DEA announced. Benjamin Arellano-Felix, nearly 60, was also ordered to forfeit $100 million in criminal proceeds. “The Tijuana Cartel was one of the world’s most brutal drug trafficking networks,…
More than 1/3 of DEA’s Divisions Have No Permanent Chiefs
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The DEA has a problem: It needs more permanently assigned leaders. The New York Post reports that more than one-third of the DEA’s 21 divisions don’t have permanently assigned special agents in charge. The Post points out that the New York division is finally getting a chief, James Kasson, more than…
Pres. Obama Filling Final U.S. Attorney Spots as 1st Term Draws to a Close
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With just seven months to go until election time, President Obama is filling the final U.S. Attorney vacancies around the country. In a White House press release issued late last week, the president announced the nominations of Patrick A. Miles, Jr. for the Western District of Michigan in Grand Rapids and…
U.S. Atty. to Discuss Distribution of $500 Million from Google
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com What’s $500 million for a corporate behemoth like Google? Maybe a drop in the bucket, but for the government it’s a nice piece of change. Rhode Island U.S. Attorney Peter Neronha plans to discuss at a press conference Monday afternoon how the money paid out to the Justice Department will be…
FBI Agent Barry Bush Remembered 5 Years Later; Was Killed by Friendly Fire
By Douglas B. Brill The Express-Time The Barry Lee Bush that Joseph Douress remembers isn’t the FBI agent who investigated gangs in Newark and the U.S. Embassy bombing in Kenya. Douress remembers a friend who would sit on a floor and stuff envelopes with invitations for a charity golf tournament, a neighbor who would plop…
Thoughts are already turning to the holidays at the Wheaton
We started with a Felt beach cruiser because it had the right look. We wanted a beefy bike that could fit all the components. The goal was to keep the center of gravity as low as possible. Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst: The freshman senator’s veterans roundtable was met with chants of “We want our voices…
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Nous sommes partis cet été 2007 avons atterri à miami resté 2 nuits pour le repos puis avons pris un vol intérieur pour new orleans (les vols intérieurs ne sont pas très cher) à new orleans resté 3 nuits visite du bayou de 2 plantations et du quartier français “et bourbon street” l’endroit branché. Notre…
A Mob Tape, an FBI Gaffe and Some Murders
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com On the big screen and on TV, sometimes we forget the twisted plots aren’t simply made up, but actually come from real situations in the wiseguy world. Here’s a real story worthy of the big screen involving a mob hit and a secret recording in which an FBI audio expert accidentally…