Hunting for The Joker

By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com In the Spring of 1989, a drama fraught with irony began playing out in Austria. A Jewish American family, a mother and her two grown sons, were fighting extradition to the US. About 50 years before, Jewish families were desperately trying to leave Austria for safe havens like the U.S. The…

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Stejskal: Unmasking The Joker

Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com In the Spring of 1989, a drama fraught with irony began playing out in Austria. A Jewish American family, a mother and her two grown sons, were fighting extradition…

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Robin Hood in Reverse — A $1.1 Million Scam

By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com In 2005 Female Jones (not her real name), an indigent woman living in public housing in Ann Arbor, Mich., discovered she wasn’t eligible for federal housing assistance. The reason she wasn’t eligible was because it appeared she was already receiving “Section 8” voucher payments. Jones wasn’t aware of receiving any assistance….

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Stejskal: How the Late University of Michigan Coach Bo Schembechler Inspired FBI’s First Probe Into Steroids in Sports

Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. His column first appeared in the Ann Arbor Observer. It’s being republished with his permission. By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com The late Bo Schembechler (left) and Greg Stejskal. In reading recent accounts of state-sponsored…

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