By Allan Lengel tickletheiwire.com A Boston federal jury on Monday convicted a former high ranking Homeland Security official in New England of encouraging her illegal immigrant housekeeper to stay in the country, the Boston Globe reported. Lorraine Henderson, 52, Boston’s port director for Customs and Border Protection, who testified last week that she had done…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Advances in DNA testing aren’t just being used to solve murders and rapes. The FBI is hoping to take advantage of the new advances by submitting evidence from the great art heist 20 years ago at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston which included three Rembrandts and a Vermeer, the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Boston FBI will be getting a little help in a suburban police corruption probe, thanks to a former cop from that department who has agreed to cooperate. Ex-Detective Arlindo Romeiro of the Stoughton Police Department pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Boston to lying to FBI agents about…
The FBI in Boston has sounded a warning that makes sense. Let’s see if the police respond. By Jonathan Saltzman and Maria Cramer The Boston Globe BOSTON — Boston is making itself vulnerable to a terrorist attack like the rampage in Mumbai last year by not adequately arming its police with the semiautomatic assault rifles…
The ugliest chapter in the history of the Boston FBI continued to unravel in federal court in Boston where families are suing the government for allegedly failing to stop mobster/FBI informants from killing. In Tuesday’s testimony, a disbarred attorney said he started to suspect that the FBI and Boston police were crooked. By Shelley Murphy…
The embarrassing fallout from the FBI’s shady relationship with mobster/informants like Whitey Bulger and “Rifleman” Flemmi continues to haunt the agency. Here’s the latest blow. By Shelley Murphy Boston Globe Staff BOSTON — After years of legal maneuverings by Justice Department lawyers and a three-day nonjury trial, a federal judge ordered the government to pay…
Maybe we’re just noticing this problem more since the Justice Department moved to void the conviction of ex-U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens. But it seems to be popping up a lot all around the country as of late. In this case, the federal judge said he saw a pattern of this in the Boston U.S. Attorney’s…
Slowly but surely the mobsters of the old days are passing away around the country. Sometimes their children have stepped in, but often times the kids like John Gotti Jr. haven’t been nearly as smart and have lived off the reputation of their street- smart dads. By Shelley Murphy Boston Globe BOSTON — Former New…
