By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex- New York FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio, who beat a murder wrap in 2007 after being accused of advising a mob informant to kill four turncoats, is going after the local Brooklyn prosecutors who unsuccessfully went after him, according to the New York Daily News. In his new book “We’re Going…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal prosecutors aren’t scoring any points with a federal judge in a bingo vote-buying case in Montgomery, Ala. The Birmingham News reports that U.S. Magistrate Judge Wallace Capel Jr. on Tuesday threatened to sanction fed prosecutors for failing to turn over documents relating to FBI wiretaps. He ordered the government to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A government watchdog group — Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) — wants to figure out why ex-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was never prosecuted federally. CREW filed a lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court in D.C. against the Justice Department for failing to release records of the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com You’d think the art of manually cracking codes written in traditional forms of communication like letters would have faded along ago with J. Edgar Hoover. Not so. The FBI has posted a feature on its website which shows that its Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Record Unit (CRRU) — part of the bureau’s…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 31-year-old Illinois man claims the FBI said it could remove him from the no-fly list if he agreed to go undercover at mosques, the Associated Press reported. He refused the offer. AP reported that Abe Mashal, a dog trainer from St. Charles, Ill., says the bureau said he landed on…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com We all get annoying emails – but these were apparently way over the top. Authorities earlier this week arrested a New Orleans man for sending threatening emails to an FBI agent that referenced the agent’s son, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune. The paper reported that David Christenson Jr. , 53,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Lisa Monaco, a former top adviser to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, and currently Principal Deputy Attorney General, has been nominated by the White House to fill the job of Assistant Attorney General for National Security, the website Main Justice reported. She would replace interim Tod Hinnen, who stepped in…
