By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some of our politicians simply refuse to let us down when it comes to the negative stereotype. The FBI on Thursday announced indictments against N.Y. State Senator Carl Kruger and Assemblyman William F. Boyland Jr. on charges of accepting bribes in exchange for official acts as lawmakers. The two lawmakers were…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI on Wednesday announced the arrest of an ex-soldier with ties to White Supremacists in connection with a bomb that was placed along the parade route at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Unity March in Spokane, Wa., on Jan. 17. Kevin William Harpham, age 36, of Colville, Wa. was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A man accused of plotting to bomb the N.Y. subway considered himself a prisoner of war after he was arrested in New York last year, an FBI agent testified in court, according to Newsday. FBI agent Farbad Azad testified in federal court that he interviewed bombing suspect Adis Medunjanin at a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Under the category of very sad stories, a 21-year-old Chicago man was sentenced Tuesday to 24 months of probation after pleading guilty to being under the influence of alcohol when he hit an off-duty FBI agent’s car head-on last last September in the Chicago suburb of River Grove, the Chicago Tribune…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com He may not be Mel Gibson, but terrorist suspect Adis Medunjanin might have done something sort of Mel Gibson-like after he was arrested last year in connection with an alleged al-Qaeda-sanctioned plot to blow up New York’s subway system. The New York Daily News reports that FBI agent Aaron Spivack testified…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It’s tough figuring out the truth here. Bloomberg news reports that Iran’s Foreign Ministry claims it has “no trace” of ex-FBI agent Robert Levinson, who disappeared in 2007 from an Iranian island. The U.S. has said it believes he was abducted by Iranian agents. If the U.S. has “consistent…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News A California woman may have to answer to a higher authority — a federal judge, that is — after being charged with scamming a group of nuns out of $285,000 and using the money to pay for items such as lingerie and pet sitting. The FBI Monday arrested Linda…
