By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Now it’s the feds turn to teach Cecilia Chang, former vice president and dean of a New York university, a big lesson. Federal authorities in New York on Wednesday indicted the former St. John’s University official for allegedly threatening to revoke scholarships if students failed to carry out certain tasks like…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Michigan Attorney General said the FBI violated no state laws when it fatally shot a Detroit mosque leader Luqman Ameen Abdullah during a raid of a suburban warehouse last October, the Detroit News reported. “My office’s review found undisputed evidence that Mr. Abdullah resisted arrest and fired a gun first…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI teamed up with the police department to help solve 27 murders in the past three months, the Los Angeles Times reports. The paper reports that under the joint effort, which began July 1, the FBI provided six agents, equipment, crime lab help and money to pay for LAPD detectives’…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Andy Stern, the contentious man who headed the 2.2 million member Service Employees International Union, is under investigation by the FBI and the U.S. Labor Department, the Associated Press reports. AP reports that two organized labor officials were interviewed this summer by federal agents about a six-figure book contract…
By Spencer Hsu The Washington Post WASHINGTON — An FBI whistleblower trial has cast a spotlight on the bureau’s difficult transition from a crime-fighting agency into a counterterrorism and intelligence force, as seen through the career of its highest-ranking Arab American agent. Over a two-week trial in Washington, a federal jury heard for the first…
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…
