Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI informant accused of putting his thumb in a man’s eye was acquitted Monday. The acquittal is the second for Kimani Anderson, who was found not guilty of murder in September 2013 in the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old, Mass Live reports. Anderson was an FBI informant who helped bring down…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The older of the accused Boston Marathon bombers was courted by the FBI to be an informant and keep an eye on the Chechen and Muslim community, according to lawyers for the younger alleged bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The Boston Globe reports that the FBI pressured Tamerlan Tsarnaev to report on the communities,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former college professor who was working as an FBI informant investigating mortgage fraud was sentenced to four years and four months in prison Thursdsay for hatching his own mortgage fraud scheme, The Plain Dealer reports. Paul Tomko asked for leniency but got none from U.S. District Judge Christopher Boyko. Tomko pleaded…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Gilberto Abascal was a main informant in two-high profile cases in Florida in the past seven years, but now he’s living large in Cuba, the Miami Herald reports. Abascal was the key witness in the trial of militant Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles two years ago, the Herald wrote. In 2006, he…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A new book explores the secret world of FBI informants, questioning the extent of bureau protection for killers and other criminals, U.S. News & World Report said. “Deal With the Devil: The FBI’s Secret Thirty-Year Relationship with a Mafia Killer” is written by investigative reporter and former ABC correspondent Peter Lance, who…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Lawyers for reputed mobster James “Whitey” Bulger continued to make the case that their client wasn’t an FBI informant, the Associated Press reports. Bulger’s attorneys opened their case Tuesday in the murder and racketeering trial of the 83-year-old man accused of participating in 19 murders. The Associated Press reports that Bulger’s…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Reputed mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger lost his cool in court for the second time in his three-week-old trial for murder and racketeering, The New York Times reports. Bulger became agitated while one of the government witnesses, John Morris, a former FBI witness, was testifying about Bulger’s role as an FBI…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An aging mobster and star government witness testified Tuesday that his heart was broken after learning that mob boss and friend James “Whitey” Bulger was an FBI informant, CNN reports. “It broke my heart. It broke all loyalties,” said John Martorano, an alleged hit man who described the people he said…
