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15 Arrested in Large Drug Smuggling Investigation Including Albuquerque Fireman
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A DEA bust has led to the arrest of a local firefighter in Albuquerque, reports KQRE. Acquaintances of firefighter Steve Chavez said he was the last guy they’d expect to be involved in a drug ring. Chavez had been with the department for seven years, according to KQRE. The drug ring…
Bizarre Sex Initiations Required for Credit Card Scheme, Secret Service Investigation Reveals
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Here’s a record-breaker for the kinkiest financial fraud: Allegations in a fed probe in Georgia suggest the leader of a credit card cloning ring demanded his co-conspirators, in order to prove themselves, had to engage in sexual acts with him, other men and women while being videotaped, reports the Athens Banner-Herald…
Rep. Issa Goes After DEA; Voices Doubt About Oversight
By GINGER THOMPSON New York Times WASHINGTON — The powerful chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform increased his pressure on the Justice Department on Friday, raising new questions about how the Drug Enforcement Administration conducts its undercover money-laundering investigations and whether those operations cross the line between fighting and facilitating crime….
Obama Admin. Announces New Regs for Gun Operations in Wake of Fast and Furious
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com New changes in federal law enforcement have emerged from the highly contentious Fast & Furious operation, reports Reuters. On Friday, the Obama administration announced reforms intended to improve undercover gun trafficking investigations in the wake of a failed operation which let hundreds of guns into the hands of violent criminals along…
Drug Bust in Upstate New York Charges Nine in Crack Network
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Nine people were in indicted on Friday in a suspected narcotics ring near Rochester, N.Y., ABC reports. Between 2008 and 2012, authorities from local police precincts and the ATF say, the indicted used rental properties to distribute 280 grams of crack and five kilograms of cocaine. They also face weapons charges,…
Justice Dept. Unit to Probe Mortgage-Backed Securities
By Kevin Johnson USA Today WASHINGTON – The U.S. government dispatched 55 prosecutors, FBI agents and analysts Friday to a new financial crimes enforcement unit focusing on home mortgage abuses that fueled the 2008 economic collapse. For the first time since the crisis, federal investigators will be joined by state law enforcement officials as part…
School Lunch Director Convicted in Bribery Probe
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Lunch just won’t be the same. The director of a public school lunch program in the American Samoa was convicted on Thursday in Washington of obstructing a federal grand jury and law enforcement investigations into a bribery plot, reports the Pacific News Center. Paul Solofa was convicted after a four-day trial,…
Weekend Series on Crime: The Rise and Fall of Detroit’s Hip Hop Mayor Who is Under Fed Indictment
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