By Adam Cohen Time magazine We may all be getting a new Facebook friend soon: the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI wants to shift its wiretapping from old-school telephone lines to person-to-person platforms like email and instant messaging and even social media like Facebook. To help it make the switch, the FBI is asking…
By Allan Lengel For Deadline Detroit DETROIT — On Christmas day in 2009, Andrew Arena, head of the Detroit FBI, made a beeline to the airport to deal with a young Nigerian man — aka The Underwear Bomber — who tried to blow up an airliner. “He slipped up and gave us some stuff,” Arena…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Reasons to ‘Recall Roque’, the Mayor of West New York, N.J., seem to be apparent without visiting the website by that name. For starters, Felix Roque and his 22 year old son Joseph were arrested by the FBI Thursday for allegedly hacking GoDaddy.com, where the anti-Roque website’s domain was registered, reports…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Keith Franklin Simmons, 47, of North Carolina, was sentenced Wednesday to 50 years in prison for an elaborate Ponzi scheme that devastated hundreds of investors, mostly elderly and vulnerable, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. A disgusted U.S. District Judge Robert Conrad Jr. and agents involved in his case described Simmons as a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Dave Welker knew there was plenty cajun food and beer in New Orleans and plenty corruption. Now after dealing with that corruption the pastfour years as head of the FBI in New Orleans, he’s retiring. “I found (New Orleans) by far has been my best assignment, by far,” said Welker, according…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com One of the first missing kids featured on a milk carton may see justice after all, though 33 years after his disappearance and long after he was assumed dead, it may be small comfort to his family. Pedro Hernandez was picked up by local cops in Camden, N.J., yesterday, and “made statements…
By Allan Lengel For Deadline Detroit DETROIT — On any ordinary day, Richard Wershe Jr. sleeps in and skips breakfast in his prison in northern Michigan. But on Tuesday — the 25th anniversary of his arrest in Detroit – he couldn’t sleep, so he grabbed some oatmeal with skim milk. “I probably slept two hours,”…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Any teens might be wowed by a former FBI agent, but the Mountain Lakes High and Briarcliff Middle School students who heard ex agent Sue Thomas speak in NJ this week weren’t ‘any’ students… they are hearing impaired just like her, reports New Jersey’s Daily Record. That common challenge made Thomas’ story…
