Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI agent with a gambling habit was sentenced to two years of probation Monday for a series of illegal cash deposits, the Fresno Bee reports. Raymond Wilson, 38, who worked at the FBI’s Long Beach office, committed a federal crime by regularly depositing $10,000 or less of casino winnings to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. Justice Department is investigating several financial institutions and their employees over the manipulation of interest rates, Reuters reports. Traders at Barclays Plc are among the institutions under investigation related to how banks set the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, Reuters reported, citing sources who spoke on condition of anonymity….
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com In the wake of the financial sector’s meltdown, many were on the hunt for the blood of bankers. But convictions for wrongdoing on Wall Street have been remarkably scarce in the aftermath of the industry’s collapse–no small part of why Occupy Wall Street protestors have gathered in lower Manhattan. A Wall…
This really does say it all. If the director of the FBI can almost fall for this, then you have to believe almost all of us can fall victim. By Elinor Mills CNET News SAN FRANCISCO–No one is immune from cyberthreats, not even the head of the FBI. FBI Director Robert Mueller was banned by…
