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Wahlberg: “Whitey” Bulger Wants to Meet With Me
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The imprisoned Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger is trying to get hold of Mark Wahlberg, the actor says. The meeting is only speculation at this point, reports The Inquisitr, but it seems plausible Bulger wants Wahlberg to portray his likeness in a possible biopic on the criminal. “I actually got a…
“Seven Second Bandit”, Out on Early Release, Wanted Again
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Out of federal prison only since July, the “Sevon-Second Bandit” Jack Mannino is again wanted in connection with a bank robbery, reports SILive.com. Mannino, a former Gambino Crime Family associate, got his name in the 1990’s, according to SI Live, when he was caught entering banks with a package and threatening…
FBI Recovers Over 6 Tons of Cocaine from Sunken Ship
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI has gone digging for sunken treasures, and the find was no small prize. FBI divers, with the US Coast Guard and a Canadian warship, found over six tons of drugs on a recovered drug cargo ship in the Caribbean, AFP reported early Tuesday morning. An FBI laboratory technical dive…
Gun Groups Appeal Judge’s ATF Ruling
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com In the back-and-forth, knock down drag out battle over gun rights, no victory goes unchallenged. It is perhaps no surprise, then, that the US gun industry, according to the Chicago Tribune, appealed on Monday US Judge Rosemary Collyer’s recent decision upholding a new requirement by the ATF that gun dealers in…
Boston Globe Obtains FBI Interview of Imposter Clark Rockefeller
By Maria Cramer Boston Globe Staff BOSTON — Clark Rockefeller slumped in a chair in the interview room of an FBI office in Baltimore, his left wrist chained to a metal bar, and stared glumly at his interrogators. Why, they asked, had he lied about places he never visited, jobs he never held, and names…
ACLU Celebrates MLK Day with FBI Jab
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com On this MLK day holiday, the blog of the ACLU has some recriminations for the FBI’s treatment of the civil rights movement hero. “Over the course of two decades, the FBI went to war against Dr. Martin Luther King,” their January 16 blog post begins. Under J. Edgar Hoover’s direction, the FBI…
British Man to be Extradited to US on Iranian Weapon Sales Charges
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A retired British businessman will be extradited to the US after losing a High Court battle, reports the Mail Online. Christopher Tappin, 64, faces charges of conspiring to sell parts for Iranian missiles in the US, which he denies. In fighting extradition, he claimed entrapment by the FBI, which a British…
Judge Upholds ATF Requirements on Gun Reporting in Southwest States
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com ATF hasn’t had it easy these day. But at least it can count on one small victory. On Friday, a US Judge in Washington upheld new, controversial federal rules requiring four border-states to report sales of multiple semi-automatic rifles, reports Reuters. The gun industry had challenged the new rules on privacy…