By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-FBI official Mike Mason, who heads up security at Verizon, is voicing concern about the strike by company workers on the east coast that has resulted in the sabotage at some facilities including a police department and hospital. “I consider that an unpatriotic act,” Mason, a former executive assistant director of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com When you’re President and you just happened to drop by a little lunch spot for a bite to eat, the Secret Service leaves little to chance. The website TMZ reports that the Secret Service on Wednesday swept through Ted’s Bulletin restaurant on 8th Street SE on Capitol Hill in D.C. with…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Being the first is always worth noting. And that’s what Charles L. Gittens was — the first black Secret Service agent. He became an agent in 1956 and retired in 1979, the Associated Press reported. AP reported reported that Gittens died on July 27 in Maryland. He was 82. According to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Family loyalty may be good in most instances, but apparently not in this one. Federal authorities last week charged three relatives with lying for Weldon Gordon, 33, a suburban D.C. man accused of killing an undercover DEA informant Andre Hayes in 2008, the D.C. Examiner reported. The relatives, who were arrested…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The modern day pirates continue to baffle the world in their ability to commandeer large ships and get away with it. Still, not all have gone free. On Thursday, Jama Idle Ibrahim, a/k/a Jaamac Ciidle, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Washington to 25 years in prison for his role…
D.C.’s former Mayor Marion Barry, currently a city council member, has had his share of brushes with federal law enforcement. As you recall in 1990 he was busted in an FBI sting smoking crack in a D.C. hotel room. In 2005, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges relating to failure to file and pay taxes….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Senior U.S. District Judge Jack Camp of Atlanta, one of three judges featured in a ticklethewire.com story on “Fed Judges Gone Wild”, pleaded guilty Friday in a case in which he is accused of buying drugs for a stripper he was having a relationship with, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Camp pleaded…
