By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Massachusetts native Richard DesLauriers, who has served as deputy assistant director of Counterintelligence at FBI headquarters, has been tapped to head the agency’s Boston office. He replaces Warren T. Bamford, who recently retired from the agency. DesLauriers entered the FBI in 1987 and was first assigned to the Birmingham, Ala. office…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In the past week women have broken the gender barrier at the FBI’s New York office. First Janice Fedarcyk was named the first woman to head the office. And on Thursday, the FBI announced that Mary E. Galligan will become the first woman special agent in charge at the office. She…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI in Denver has a new home and it’s built to fend off unwanted guests. The Associated Press reports that the new field office is a four-story, glass tower with a lobby that has bomb proof glass, fencing that can stop a moving truck and pillars that can withstand a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI agents on Tuesday arrested a Chicago cop police officer as part of an ongoing probe into officers taking kickbacks from tow truck drivers, the Chicago Tribune reported. A federal complaint filed against cop James Wodnicki alleged that he received cash bribes from tow truck operators in exchange for preferential treatment…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There are lies. And then there are big fat lies that can land you behind bars. Daniel Gerald Peterson, 26, told one of those big fat lies, and on Monday he pleaded guilty in Minneapolis federal court to providing the FBI with false information about a bomb threat he made up,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Who says the Cold War is over? The FBI said Monday that it had arrested 10 people for allegedly spying for Russia in the U.S., the Associated Press reported. The new service said the goal was to penetrate U.S. government policy making circles. The Associated Press reported that court papers show…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Members of the Justice Department, FBI and DEA in Afghanistan are getting a first hand look at corruption and how certain citizens are being protected from prosecution and arrest, the Washington Post reports. The Post reports that the Afghanistan government has repeatedly derailed criminal investigations of connected citizens. The U.S. investigators…
