Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is considering launching its own investigation into the death of a Staten Island man who died after he was placed in a chokehold by police, The New York Post reports. The bureau also is “monitoring” the investigation by the New York Police Department. George Venizelos, the chief of the FBI’s…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Football legend Joe Montana was a subject of an FBI investigation that snared state California state Sen. Leland Yee and previously convicted Chinatown mobster, “Shrimp Boy.” CNN reports that FBI agents came up with nothing incriminating against the Hall of Fame quarterback. “Nobody has said he did anything wrong,” said the source,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hollis Nunnery didn’t let the fact that he was a convicted felon get in the way of posting pictures of himself holding guns on Facebook, WoodTV.com reports. Nunnery also happened to be the focus of an FBI investigation into bank robberies. After spotting Nunnery holding a large handgun with a laster site,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI will continue to shed the number of agents assigned to fight the mafia as the demand for other threats increases, The New York Times reports. For the third time in five years, the bureau will decrease its agents assigned to organized crime to about three dozens. In the meantime, more…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus P. McCaffery is the target of an FBI investigation involving referral fees received by his wife, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. His wife and chief aide, Lise Rapaport, received 19 referral fees for connecting clients with personal-injury law firms, the Inquirer reported. One of those fees was for…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A California state senator and the Legislature’s Latino caucus appear to be the target of an FBI investigation, the Huffington Post reports. An FBI spokeswoman confirmed warrants were served Tuesday at 3 p.m. About six agents removed a half-dozen boxes and what appeared to be computer equipment, the Huffington Post wrote. Ron…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents raided the home of former Jets offensive tackle Jason Fabini last Thursday morning, the New York Daily News reports. Fabini, 38, denied any wrongdoing after agents were seen removing boxes from his home in Fort Wayne, Ind. “I am not the target of the investigation and I was not involved…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The ongoing investigation of Trenton Mayor Tony Mack includes an environmental cleanup that was awarded city work at rates much higher than quotes obtained from three competitors, reports the Times of Trenton, citing recently obtained records. Turns out, according to the records, the company Clean Green received the job without a…
