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FBI Joins Interpol in Int’l Gold Scam Investigation
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI has joined international law enforcement agencies in investigating a 100 million pound gold scam in West Africa, reports the Belfast Telegraph. The scam, which the FBI is looking into with Interpol, is thought to have originated in Lagos, Nigeria, according to the Telegraph. It allegedly was masterminded by a…
Dep. U.S. Marshal Charged With Assaulting Handcuffed Prisoners
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Deputy U.S. Marshal Stephen Linder stepped way over the line, federal authorities say. A Chicago fed grand jury last week indicted him for civil rights violations for allegedly assaulting handcuffed prisoners. The Justice Department alleged that Linder, 36, choked a handcuffed man on July 8, 2010, and head-butted a handcuffed man…
Man Who Applied for FBI Job Gets 80 Mos. in Prison
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Dominick Pelletier was not expecting prison time when he went looking for a job at the FBI. But he got it. The 34-year-old suburban Chicago resident applied with the bureau as an intelligence analyst in August of 2008, according to the Daily Herald, but after taking a routine polygraph test he…
Happy MLK Day from ticklethewire.com
“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.” Martin Luther King Jr. *********** “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience,…
DiCaprio Gets Passed Over for Golden Globe Award for Role in “J. Edgar”
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Leonardo DiCaprio, star of the controversial film “J. Edgar”, lost out Sunday night for a Golden Globe Award to George Clooney, who starred in the movie “The Descendants.” The category was “Best Performance by an actor in a motion picture-drama. ” Besides Clooney, DiCaprio was up against Michael Fassbender in “Shame”,…
Imam Gets Life in Plot to Blow Up JFK Airport
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Kareem Ibrahim, an Imam, will have to communicate to the person up above, behind bars, for the rest of his life. Brooklyn U.S. District Judge Dora L. Irizarry on Friday sentenced Ibrahim to life in prison for conspiring to commit a terrorist attack at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens…
John Edwards’ Serious Heart Condition Delays Criminal Trial
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-presidential hopeful John Edwards has found a way to delay his pending federal trial on alleged campaign violations. The Associated Press reports that a North Carolina fed judge on Friday delayed his January trial date until at least March 26 after his cardiologist sent two letters to the judge citing Edward’s…