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Ex-FBI Agent Paul Lindsay Returns to the Motown for Book Tour
By Susan Whitall The Detroit News DETROIT — As a thriller author, Paul Lindsay doesn’t have to burn hours of time interviewing FBI agents or homicide detectives to get it right. As Lindsay puts it, “I’ve got all my research down.” That’s because the author of “The Bricklayer” and his latest thriller, “Agent X” (both…
NY Feds Free Admitted Terrorist After His Cooperation
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The feds have released an admitted terrorist after serving 4 1/2 years because of his cooperation, the New York NBC local affiliate reported. The station reports that U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara confirmed that Mohammed Junaid Babar is free, but declined to say more. A federal judge officially released him in December….
New FBI Show on CBS Needs Fresher Feel, NY Critic Says
By David Hinckley New York Daily News This spinoff from “Criminal Minds” illustrates the danger of a television network getting too good at something. CBS has done so well with “police procedurals” – shows that set up a crime and walk the viewer through to its solution – that the network seems to think we…
The Ugly Side of Politics; Ex-Congressional Candidate Gets 1 Year in Prison
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Tan Nguyen represents the ugliest of ugly in politics. The 35-year-old Vietnamese immigrant and former Republican California congressional candidate was sentenced Monday to one year and one day in prison for lying to investigators about a letter sent to Latino voters during his 2006 campaign against a Latino, Democratic incumbent. The…
Column: Justice Dept. May Not Have Served Up Justice Following Mob Hit
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com I have mixed feelings about a ruling last week by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston. The court rescinded an $8.5 million judgment handed down two years ago against the government in the 1982 murders of two people by James “Whitey” Bulger, a notorious Boston mobster who was an FBI…
DEA Sting Nets 7 Charged With Supporting Taliban
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A DEA sting resulted in authorities charging a group of people with plotting to move large shipments of drugs and weapons for the Taliban, authorities announced Monday. In court documents unsealed in New York, authorities charged seven people with conspiring to provide “various forms of support to DEA confidential sources whom…
More Charges Come Raining Down on Ex-D.C. Suburban County Exec Jack Johnson
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Jack Johnson, who in his final weeks as a county executive in suburban Washington got busted on a wiretap advising his wife to hide evidence as FBI agents knocked on the door, was indicted Monday on charges of conspiracy, extortion, tampering with a witness and evidence and taking more…
Opera Pokes Fun at Ex-Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Washington can be a way too serious place. Then occasionally someone comes along and figures out how to turn all the manure into entertainment. Over the past two weekends people have flocked to the Baltimore Theater Project to see “The Gonzales Cantata”, an opera by composer Melissa Dunphy who…