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Bad Move: Chicago Drug Dealers Try Robbing ATF Agent
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Under the category of “bad luck for criminals” comes this story from Chicago. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that a bandit put a gun to the head of an undercover ATF agent last Thursday and tried to rob him while the agent was trying to make a heroin purchase. The paper reports…
Appeals Court Upholds Multi-Million $$ Judgments Against Feds in Whitey Bulger Murders
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Payday may be getting closer for families who had relatives who fell victim to Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger. The Associated Press reports that a federal appeals court has upheld multi-million dollar judgments against the government in the deaths of three people supposedly murdered by Bulger, who sits behind bars now…
Fed Prosecutor to Go Mum in Fast and Furious and Take the 5th
By JOSH GERSTEIN Politico WASHINGTON — A senior federal prosecutor in Arizona intends to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights rather than testify before a House committee next week looking into the Justice Department’s handling of the Fast and Furious gunrunning investigation, the prosecutor’s attorney told Congress in a letter on Thursday. On Wednesday, House Government…
Column: The Truth About the FBI’s Clyde Tolson, Hoover’s Confidante
By Larry Wack Retired FBI Agent In a Jan. 5, 2012 Los Angeles Times article, reporter Amy Dawes asked Armie Hammer a series of questions regarding his role as the FBI’s Clyde Tolson in the movie “J. Edgar.” In commenting on Tolson, Hammer is quoted by Ms. Dawes saying, in part: “But he was…
Dozen-Plus Arrested in Spokane Crime Ring Bust
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com There were some big happenings in snowy Spokane, Wash., on Thursday, where FBI agents executed multiple searches and made more than a dozen arrests in the culmination of the year-long investigation called Operation “Old School,” reports KXLY. Multi-agency SWAT teams made raids that stretched across Northern Oregon, Walla Walla, Tri-Cities and…
Police Chief Lured By Xbox 360; Pleads Guilty to Stealing Evidence
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com “It is a sad day when law enforcement must pursue one of their own,” said US Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois Stephen R. Wigginton. Particularly when it involves stealing evidence, or more specifically, gaming consoles Xbox 360s. Wigginton was announcing on Thursday the guilty plea of Michael Baxton, the…
FBI: Cop Tipped Off Drug Dealers
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI is alleging that a Georgia cop tipped off drug dealers about an upcoming raid by the bureau, charges that the cop says are untrue, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Gabriel Hoskins III, the police officer, plead not guilty to the charges on Thursday, but was placed on supervised release…