By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON –The Justice Department today announced the “broadest mortgage fraud sweep” in U.S. history, with criminal charges filed against 1,215 people. Almost 500 have already been arrested in a 3 1/2-month crackdown dubbed “Operation Stolen Dreams.” Authorities said the operation uncovered $2.3 billion in mortgage fraud losses and recovered…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Call it the sign of the times. The FBI won’t let 26-year-old Muslim American Yahya Wehelie fly home to Virginia from the Middle East, the New York Times reports. Wehelie spent 18 months in Yemen. In May, he was heading home to Virginia and was changing planes in Cairo when the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has apologized to a New York man whose Long Island home was raided in connection to the Times Square car bomb incident, the man said, according to the Associated Press. AP reported that Mohammad Iqbal said agents returned his Pakistani passport and other items seized during a raid at…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The old white powder in the envelope trick continues to scare people and disrupt work places even though none have ever proved dangerous since the 2001 attacks that killed five people and sickened 17. The latest: White powder envelopes, that were later found to be harmless, were discovered Monday in eight…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 40-year-old multi-millionaire who had once been married to the U.S. Ambassador to Spain, reportedly had “considerable information” about sex parties at a New York Hotel involving the Kennedys and some famous entertainers, according to a 1965 FBI file released Monday. The July 1965 FBI file, part of a ream of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI files released Monday on the late Sen. Ted Kennedy show that Joseph P. Kennedy, the senator’s father, felt close enough to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to check on a rumor regarding his son. An FBI file dated May 11, 1954, said Kennedy called the bureau and spoke…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI had been tracking two suspected New Jersey jihadists since 2006 after getting a tip on its website, the Newark Star-Ledger reported. “Every time they access the internet, all they look for is all those terrorist videos about the Islam holly war and where they kill U.S. soldiers and other…
Chris Battle is a former official at Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and DEA. He is currently managing partner of the Adfero Group Homeland Security Practice, a Washington public relations firm. By Chris Battle Security DeBrief WASHINGTON — Will John Pistole, the FBI deputy director nominated to lead the TSA, go the way of…
