Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The head of internal affairs at Customs and Border Protection was removed from his position Monday following criticism that he wasn’t aggressive enough with agents accused of using inappropriate force, the Los Angeles Times reports. James F. Tomsheck, whose job is to root out corruption among the federal government’s largest law enforcement…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Separate corruption investigations led to the arrests of two public officials in North Carolina and California and to the raid of the office of a New York state senator, the Washington Post reports. Hundreds of federal agents descended on offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, arresting several people including state Democratic…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Special Agent Leon Martinez, who investigated 9/11 terrorists, government corruption and drug cartels in Florida, is headed to the private sector after 25 years with the bureau, the Herald-Tribune reports. Martinez is opening a private investigative firm in Sarasota called the Executive Assessment Group, which will conduct background investigations and surveillance…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson’s newest appointee has a checkered past, the Washington Times reports. According to court records, Johnson’s chief of staff, Christian Marrone, oversaw the private renovations of a mansion owned by state Sen. Vince Fumo. At the time, Marrone was one of Fumo’s legislative aides. According to the report…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Patricia M. Ferrick, the new head of the FBI in Connecticut, said Wednesday that a top priority is cracking down on public corruption, the Associated Press reports. “You have to look for corruption to find it,” Ferrick said Wednesday during an interview in her office with The Associated Press. “It doesn’t walk…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Special Agent Michael Doyle is becoming somewhat of a celebrity in New Jersey. The 17-year-veteran of tackling white collar crime and political corruption cases may best be known for bringing down the once-powerful Newark Mayor Sharpe James, who served 18 months in prison on corruption charges. The Trentonian is reporting…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Just days after Joseph “JoJo” Giorgianni took a plea deal and implicated the Trenton Mayor Tony Mack in a corruption scheme, professionally looking signs began popping up that displayed “JoJo” and a rat, NJ.com reports. The FBI is taking the signs seriously. “It’s more than crazy, it’s a serious crime,” Giorgianni’s attorney,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hoping to avoid further cutbacks, the FBI Agents Association is showing its support for a bipartisan spending plan that would avoid more than $700 million in additional sequestration reductions, NPR reports. The plan, while not ideal for the cash-strapped agency, was announced Tuesday by GOP Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Democratic…
