Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Sometimes being a ‘friend of Israel’ means sharing criminals. Three Israeli mobsters were extradited to the U.S. in January 2011 in the first extradition of its kind under Israel’s racketeering law, which parallels RICO, the U.S. law targeting organized crime. Two of the three pled guilty to a host of drug and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A California Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was shot to death in Los Angeles County Wednesday and his 14-year-old was arrested on suspicion of murder, the LA Times reported. The Times reported that the agent was killed by a single bullet that was fired into their Carson, Calif., home from the…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Robert F. Kennedy was shot dead in an L.A. hotel in 1968, just moments after winning California’s Democratic primary election. The facts beyond that may be in the air if “new” evidence of a second shooter is allowed in court for the first time, 44 years later. The convicted lone gunman Sirhan…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Shawn Henry, the FBI’s top cyber cop up until his recent retirement, is putting his FBI skill to use in the private sector. The Wall Street Journal’s Devlin Barrett reports that ex-FBI official Shawn Henry is joining an Irvine, Calif. upstart computer security firm called CrowdStrike Inc. The Journal reports that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com He ain’t exactly Osama bin Laden. Still, the FBI on Tuesday announced a replacement for bin Laden for its Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List: Eric Justin Toth, 30, a former private-school teacher and camp counselor. Toth is accused of possessing and producing child pornography. In a press release, the FBi said…
By Paul Harris The Guardian IRVINE, Calif. — Craig Monteilh says he did not balk when his FBI handlers gave him the OK to have sex with the Muslim women his undercover operation was targeting. Nor, at the time, did he shy away from recording their pillow talk. “They said, if it would enhance the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI probe into Scientology and human trafficking is dead, the Village Voice reports, but the details are fascinating nonetheless. The newspaper reports that by around June, 2010, the FBI had planned to raid Scientology’s California international headquarters “using high resolution footage shot from drone aircraft, and had also recorded the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ICE agent Ezequiel Garcia, who shot his supervisor last week in Long Beach, Calif., struggled for his gun with another ICE agent who shot him, the Associated Press reported. “There was a very, very intense struggle,” ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice said, according to AP. “They were physically struggling over the gun.”…
