By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A FBI employee in San Francisco is in big trouble as a result of financial statement she made, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The paper reported that Rachelle Thomas-Zuill, 39, who conducted background investigations on FBI agents for security clearances in San Francisco, was charged in court documents in San Jose…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Herbert Brown, section chief of the FBI’s gang and drug section at headquarters, will take over the Sacramento FBI office in January, the Sacramento Bee reported. Brown, 53, a former fullback with the UC Davis football team in the 1970s, replaces Drew Parenti, who retired in October. He’ll supervise 160 agents,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An FBI agent from Milwaukee is credited with taking down the “king of spam”, the Associated Press is reporting. Authorities say he allegedly generated 10 billion unwanted emails a day. The suspected spam king, Oleg Nikolaenko, 23, of Russia, was arrested last month during a visit to Las Vegas, AP reported….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal and local officials broke ground Wednesday for a new $60 million, four-story FBI field office in Portland, Ore., The Oregonian newspaper reported. It is third FBI field in the nation under construction. The new office is part of an effort by the FBI to update offices and make them more…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Mary F. Rook, the chief in the FBI’s Training Division’s Law Enforcement Programs Section, will head the Anchorage Division, the agency announced Wednesday. Rook began her FBI career in the laboratory as a serology technician in 1984. She became a special agent two years later and was assigned to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mohammed Zazi, the father of the New York subway bomb plotter Najibullah Zazi, is facing additional charges including allegations of lying and witness tampering, Newsday reported. In a superseding indictment, authorities charged that he tried to destroy evidence after learning in 2009 that his son was under FBI investigation. His son…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The federal defender for the Oregon teen accused of trying to detonate a fake bomb in an FBI sting, is claiming his client was entrapped by the government, the Los Angeles Times reports. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a Somali-American, pleaded not guilty Monday in U.S. District Court in Portland to charges he…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Over the years, his Inspector General reports have stung such agencies as the FBI and ATF and DEA, pointing out flaws, offering suggestions that have not always been welcomed with open arms. Now, Glenn Fine, the Justice Department’s Inspector General, is hanging it up, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr….
