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…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced to 28 years in prison for running a complex racketeering scheme out of city hall. The sentence is one of the stiffest ever leveled against a corrupt politician. U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds said she wanted to send a clear message that corruption would not…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After high-profile corruption cases against Detroit officials, including ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a joint task force that includes the FBI announced charges Thursday against seven building inspectors accused of accepting bribes for phony inspections, the Detroit News reports. The charges stem from an FBI probe dating as far back as 2007. According to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As jurors begin their fifth day of deliberations in the racketeering and murder trial reputed mobster James “Whitey” Bulger today, relatives of victims are hoping for some closure and justice, the USA Today reports. Theresa Barrett Bond, however, may never get that closure because she has lost trust in the law…
