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Court Calls Dead Judge John M. Roll a “Warm, Compassionate Judge and Inspirational Leader”
By Allan Lengel tickelthewire.com The U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona issued a statement in honor of Chief Judge John M. Roll, 63, who was shot and killed on Saturday in Tucson in a mass shooting that killed six and wounded 12 including Democratic Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. The following is the statement:…
Fed Judge Killed and Congress Member Critically Wounded in Mass Shooting in Tucson; FBI Director Sent to Az
UPDATE: Sunday, 3 p.m. — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III said at a press conference that he doesn’t believe a second person wanted for questioning is directly involved in the shooting. “It was an attack not only against dedicated public servants but against citizens, one being a child,” Mueller said. “This was an attack…
Weekend Series on Crime History: Mobster John Gotti the “Teflon Don”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fh_HNt5l_8 WEEKEND STORIES OF INTEREST Baltimore Cop Among Two Dead in Night Club Shooting (AP) Detroit Feds Recommend Life Sentences in Biker Case (Detroit News) Fed Judge Allows Limited Release of Escort Black Book (Detroit News) Incendiary Mailings Spread from Maryland to D.C. (Washington Post) U.S. Demands Info on WikiLeaks Twitter Account (AP) Atty. Gen….
FBI’s Randall Thysse Named SAC for NY Counterintelligence
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Randall C. Thysse of the FBI’s global counterintelligence section at headquarters has been named special agent in charge of the New York Office’s Counterintelligence Division. Thysse joined the FBI in 1989 and was first stationed in the Omaha Division’s Des Moines Resident Agency. He later went to headquarters as…
Column: Some Criminal Politicians are Disgraceful til the End
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some criminal politicians are disgraceful right up to the end. Take former Massachusetts State Senator Dianne Wilkerson who was sentenced Thursday in Boston federal court to 3 1/2 years in prison for taking $23,000 in bribes to help secure a liquor license for a nightclub and for legislation to grease the…
FBI Probing Death of Mexican Teen Shot By Border Patrol Agent
By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com The FBI is investigating the death of a Mexican teen who died Wednesday in a shooting involving a U.S. border patrol agent in Nogales along the Arizona-Mexico border, Reuters reported. The Sonora, Mexican police said Ramses Barron, 17, was found dead outside a hospital in Nogales, Sonora on Wednesday with a…
Justice Dept. Indicts Ex-CIA Officer on Charges of Leaking Info to N.Y. Times Reporter
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — An ex-CIA officer involved in a classified clandestine operation involving Iran was arrested Thursday in St. Louis on charges of leaking classified information to a reporter, the Justice Department announced. Jeffrey A. Sterling, 43, of O’Fallon, Mo., was charged with six counts of unauthorized disclosure of national defense information,…
OUCH! Armed Pa. Man Under Investigation Bites 2 FBI Agents and Draws Blood
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Authorities say a Pennsylvania man carrying a loaded gun bit two FBI agents who tried to restrain him outside a fast food restaurant after he appeared to be reaching for his weapon, the Associated Press reported. The agents arrested Emerson Begolly, 21, in New Bethlehem, Pa., outside of Pittsburgh, on Tuesday,…