By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Speaking anonymously to the Washington Post, several attorneys said dozens of career antitrust lawyers at the Justice Department say they are likely to quit if the department goes ahead with plans to close four regional offices. Plans were announced earlier this month to close offices in the antitrust division in Atlanta,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former special agent with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Criminal Investigation Division in Dallas was indicted Wednesday in Louisiana for allegedly lying about having an affair with an FBI agent he was working with, the Justice Department announced. Keith Phillips, 61, of Kent, Tex. was charged with obstruction of justice and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com President George W. Bush and wife Laura continue to get the occasional unexpected visitor at their home in Dallas. The station WTSP reports that a mentally ill woman reached the front yard of the ex-president’s Dallas home on Friday afternoon and was taken into custody for questioning. Sources told the station…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s off to prison for ex-FBI agent Carlos Ortiz Jr. who threatened to harm his estranged wife — an FBI analyst — and the head of the Dallas FBI. Chief U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater in Dallas on Friday sentenced Carlos, 49, to two years in prison after he pleaded…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A motorist tooling around an upscale Dallas neighborhood Wednesday night got an unexpected greeting from U.S. Secret Service agents when his muscle car accidentally hopped the curb and ended up on the lawn of a certain prominent person. Ed Donovan, a Secret Service spokesman, said the man was driving sometime around…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — Thousands of federal law enforcement agents work their tails off to put crooks behind bars. But on occasion, some of the very same folks who carry a gun and a badge and slap the cuffs on the bad guys end up stepping over the line….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Dallas FBI agent was sentenced Wednesday to two years probation and ordered to pay a $18,000 fine for unlawfully employing illegal immigrants at a deli she owned in suburban Dallas, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Ann Cox, who was fired in the summer after the U.S. Attorney’s Office filed charges, …
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former FBI Dallas FBI agent pleaded guilty Wednesday in a case in which he was charged with plotting to kill his estranged wife and his boss, the head of the Dallas FBI, Robert Casey Jr., the Dallas Morning News reported. Carlos Ortiz Jr., 49, pleaded to retaliating against a federal…
