By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade in Detroit announced Thursday that she’s launched an internal inquiry into “recent disclosures of information to the press regarding federal public corruption investigations.’ McQuade asked investigating agencies to conduct similar internal inquiries, according to a press release issued by her office. The U.S. Attorney’s Office and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Actor Leonardo DiCaprio could end up playing FBI Dir. J. Edgar Hoover in a film to be directed by Clinton Eastwood. Mike Fleming of the website Deadline New York is reporting that “talks with Leo are just getting underway, but I’m told that DiCaprio will play the lead role…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Andrew Arena, the head of the Detroit FBI, said Tuesday that other mainstream militias have distanced themselves from the nine members of the Christian militia in the Midwest who were indicted for plotting to kill law enforcement members. “I honestly think they don’t believe the same things this group does,” Arena…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The old saying goes: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” The FBI, pointing to a lesson in history when power corrupted, has been taking about 1,000 special agents each year from the FBI Training Academy to the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington as part of a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI has issued a bulletin to local police saying there’s sympathetic chatter on the Internet regarding the arrests of the Christian militia members, but no indication of copycats, the Associated Press reported. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit on Monday unsealed an indictment charging nine members of a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Janet L. Kamerman, the FBI’s associate executive assistant director of the Human Resources Branch, has some added duties. On top of her current job, she will also become assistant director of the FBI’s Training Division. The FBI said in “her new role, she will assume additional responsibilities for all…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI, the Inspector General for Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection are locked in a turf battle that seems to be delaying investigations into corruption among U.S. Border and immigration employees, according to the Center for Investigative Reporting. The journalism organization, which wrote the story for the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A veteran California FBI agent who investigated white collar crimes has agreed to plead guilty to illegally accessing FBI files to help an acquaintance collect a debt, according to court records. A plea agreement filed by the U.S. Attorneys Office in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, Calif. said that agent…
