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Report Says Americans, Not Mexicans, Arrested Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A controversial report has surfaced in wake of the July 11 prison escape of drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. The website, Intercept reports that Presco, an investigative Mexican magazine, is saying that initial reports about the February 2014 arrest of Guzmanin weren’t true. The media reported back then that the…
FBI Losing Cyber Crime Agents to Lucrative Jobs in Private Sector
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI is losing some agents with experience in investigating Internet crimes. Matthew Goldstein of the New York Times reports that in the last three months, at least a half-dozen FBI agents on the online security squad of the New York office have quit to take more lucrative jobs in the…
China Aggressively Stealing Corporate Secrets, FBI Says
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com China is on the loose. The Daily Beast writes that American companies are getting their secrets stolen like never before, according to the FBI, and China is to blame for almost all of it. The website reports that the FBI reports a surge in cases of economic espionage in the past year….
NY State Lawmaker Thomas Libous Convicted of Lying to the FBI
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com New York State Senator Thomas W. Libous, the second highest ranking state senator, was found guilty Wednesday of false statements to the FBI. The conviction came after a seven-day federal trial in White Plains. “Public corruption is a scourge. Every New Yorker wants us to work as hard as possible to…
Mobster Accuses of FBI of Misconduct in Attempt to Make Him Talk
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Hartford mobster is accusing the FBI of “outrageous government misconduct” as part an effort to make him cooperate, the Hartford Courant reports. The paper reports that the FBI believes that mobster Robert “Bobby the Cook” Gentile, 79, has information that could help recover half a billion dollars in art stolen…
Video of Sandra Bland’s Traffic Stop Appears to Be Tampered With
A 52-minute video that shows the traffic stop and arrest of Sandra Bland before she died in a jail cell three days later appears to be edited, raising questions about the whether police cam evidence was tampered with.
FBI Raids Home of Widow, 6 Children During Chattanooga Shooting Probe
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s investigation of Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez has taken agents to an apartment complex for a raid at the home of a widowed woman and her six children, The Times Free Press reports. Agents said they were acting on a lead about an associate of Abdulazeez’s. The widow, Alexis Tubbs, said…