By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI agents on Tuesday arrested the mayor of the border town of Nogales, Az., on public corruption charges including bribery, theft, fraud and money laundering, authorities said. Mayor Garcia Von Borstel, a Democrat, was arrested at his city hall office in the morning and search warrants were executed at his home,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — There’s longevity on the job, and then there’s John “Jack” C. Keeney. On Friday, the Justice Department held a retirement ceremony to mark the end of his 59-year career as the longest serving federal prosecutor in U.S. history. According to a Justice Department account of the event, as Keeney…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A probe into the nationwide FBI test cheating scandal cited in an Inspector General report released Monday began at the Washington field office, just blocks from the Capitol. The report, which cited widespread cheating on an open book exam nationwide, said the FBI Inspection Division in September 2009 received…
By The New York Times Editorial Page The day after Thanksgiving, 2002, was a slow day in the Pittsburgh office of the F.B.I., so a supervisor sent a special agent to a rally against the threatened war in Iraq to look for any terrorism suspects who might be there, just to ”see what they are…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– The FBI is making a new move to try and bring its troubled computer project called the “Sentinel” under control, according to the Washington Post’s Capital Business report. The program has been plagued by endless glitches. The paper reports that the FBI has decided to bring the project in…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCxhbVpyo6c WEEKEND STORIES OF INTEREST FBI Serves Terrorism Warrants in Minn. and Chicago (NY Times) U.S. Officials Defend State Secrets Claim in al-Aulaqi Suit (Washington Post)
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The convicted drug dealer whose wife shot and killed a Pittsburgh FBI agent in 2008 during a raid at their home was sentenced Friday in federal court to 25 years in prison, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. The paper reported that Robert Korbe, who pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, gun and insurance…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III told a Senate Committee Wednesday that he’s concerned about terrorist plots against the U.S. coming primarily from three sources: core al Qaeda, al Qaeda’s affiliates, and homegrown extremists. “In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, al Qaeda’s plots and plans primarily focused on using…
