Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A California man’s decision to hack the phone of the reigning Miss Teen USA turned out to be a bad one. ABC News reports that police arrested 19-year-old Jared James Abrahams of Temecula on charges that he hacked her phone to obtained nude photos, which he threatened to reveal unless she sent…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a so-called “sextortion case” that targeted newly crowned Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf and other women, The Los Angeles Times reports. The culprit hacked into the computers of Wolf and others, turning on the webcam and also searching for nude photos and videos, The Times wrote. Once the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A federal jury will resume deliberations today in the racketeering and murder trial of accused mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger after submitting five questions for the judge, CNN reports. The eight men and four women wanted to know whether they needed to vote unanimously on 33 “predicate” acts in one of the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Officials have not yet determined the cause of death of an alleged extortion victim of James “Whitey” Bulger who was found dead a day after learning he wouldn’t be testifying in the racketeering and murder trial of the suspected mob boss, The Boston Herald reports. An autopsy of Stephen M. “Stippo”…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Was reputed mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger a rat? During tense testimony Tuesday in Bulger’s murder and racketeering trial, his defense attorneys tore into government witnesses who acknowledged Bulger’s files were falsified or inaccurate, the New York Daily News reports. FBI files suggest Bulger ratted out friends and associates, but defense…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Opening statements begin today in the long-anticipated trial of James “Whitey” Bulger, who is accused of murder, racketeering, extortion, money laundering, gun stockpiling and drug dealing. Before his arrest, Bulger was so notorious that he shared the top spot on the FBI’s most-wanted list with terrorist Osama bin Laden, The New York…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Thirteen female guards are accused in a federal indictment of working with an inmate gang to smuggle drugs and other banned items into a Baltimore jail, the USA Today reports. Four of those women were impregnated by the leader of the gang, the . Inmates and the guards were charged with racketeering,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is trying to determine whether a former Rutgers basketball employee tried to extort the university by threatening to release damaging videos showing ex-coach Mike Rice shoving players and calling them gay slurs, the Associated Press reports. The former employee, Eric Murdock, quit his job last year at the basketball program’s…
