By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Michael B. Steinbach is taking over the FBI’s Jacksonville Division. Steinbach, the special assistant to associate deputy director Thomas Harrington at FBI Headquarters, began his career in April 1995 and was first assigned to the Chicago divison, working fugitives and violent crimes. In 2003, he went to headquarters as a supervisor…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com A 2010 sting nailed a would-be bomber for attempting to plant an explosive device in the bustling Wrigleyville neighborhood of Chicago. Now, he’s likely to be out of commission for a long time. The FBI announced Monday that Sami Samir Hassoun, a 24-year-old green card holder from Lebanon, pleaded guilty to one…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Jay Bauer, an intelligence analyst for the FBI in Chicago, may have been short on the pushups, but he’s no pushover. The Northwestern University doctoral graduate has filed a gender-discrimation lawsuit against the FBI, claiming he was short one pushup at the training academy and was rejected as an agent,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Twitter has gotten high grades for helping promote revolutions and for helping communicate the news. Here’s one of the uses that doesn’t get high grades. The FBI is hunting for a Chicago native who pimps underage girls and brags about it on Twitter, The Smoking Gun website reports. Authorities have issued…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A Chicago Physician was handed a steep sentence on Tuesday for his role in the deaths of four individuals, the FBI said. Paul H. Volkman was sentenced to four consecutive terms of life imprisonment, the FBI said. He was convicted of “illegally prescribing and dispensing pain pills outside the scope of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two Chicago cops find themselves on the wrong side of the law. The feds in Chicago on Monday announced that they had charged Sgt. Ronald Watts and officer Kallatt Mohammed with stealing $5,200 from someone they thought was transporting money for drug dealers, but who was actually an informant working for…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A Chicago cab driver pled guilty on Monday to giving money to a long-time acquaintance after learning that acquaintance was working for al Qaeda, the FBI said in a statement. Raja Lahrasib Khan, Pakistani-born but naturalized as a US citizen in 1988, was arrested in March of 2010. On Monday he pled…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A fire at a suburban Chicago home may have been used to hide the murder of four people in the house, ATF agents have told the Associated Press. A woman and three young relatives were found dead by gunshot in the home, presumably shot before the blaze began, according to the…
