By Allan Lengel For AOL News At first blush, Rod Blagojevich appeared almost Houdini-like, slipping out from under a weight of charges that seemed almost certain to bury the former Illinois governor. A federal jury in downtown Chicago convicted him Tuesday on only one of 24 corruption counts — one that involved lying to FBI…
By Matt Castello ticklethewire.com A new threat could be crawling across the nation, clad in diapers: Terror babies. Seriously? Well, yes seriously if you ask some Texas Republican members of Congress who cite former FBI agents, according to Wednesday’s Anderson Cooper 360 show on CNN. Nonsense, if you ask a former high ranking FBI official,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Looks like the prolific “Grandad Bandit”, suspected of at least 25 bank robberies in 13 states in less than two years, is retiring involuntarily — and not to Florida to enjoy the early bird specials. The FBI said agents arrested the bandit, aka Michael Francis Mara, 52, of Baton Rouge, La.,…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — To cheat or not to cheat on an open-book exam. That is no longer an issue among FBI agents around the country now that the test is long over. Now the question is, should those who did cheat on the FBI exam last year — and they…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI has a backlog of 3,211 forensic DNA cases, which would take two years to eliminate if there was no new staff or new cases, according to a report by the Justice Department’s Inspector General. “The forensic DNA case backlog at the FBI Laboratory can have significant effects,”…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The fun is over for Brenna Marie Reilly. The Washington Examiner reports she was sentenced Friday in federal court in Alexandra, Va., to 30 days in prison and four months of house arrest for impersonating an FBI agent and hiring an assistant to work for her as a fake…
By Matt Castello ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — In April, Dennis Craig Bell was a Sergeant with the U.S. Capitol Police. Today, the 27-year police veteran is a convict and another statistic in the ugly world of child pornography. The Woodbridge, Va. resident pled guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria to distributing child pornography. He…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Homegrown terrorists just keep popping up. The FBI on Tuesday night arrested a 26-year-old Chicago man, Shaker Masri, an American citizen, who allegedly had plans to travel to Somalia to fight with a terrorist group linked to al Qaeda and become a suicide bomber, authorities said. Masri, who lived in the…
