By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The engaged daughter of an ex-FBI agent who vanished in 2007 while visiting an island off Iran, issued an open letter to the U.S. and Iran pleading for help. “As you know, my father, Robert “Bob” Levinson, has been missing in Iran since March 9th, 2007, when he disappeared from Kish…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal judge in Phoenix sharply criticized the FBI tactics Thursday as he sentenced an Arizona man to 18 months in prison for lying to agents investigating the Muslim charity the Holy Land Foundation, which raised money for the Palestinian group Hamas, which the U.S. has labeled a terrorist group, the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The trial in Brooklyn federal court involving right wing racist Internet radio host Hal Turner illustrates the tough balancing act the FBI has to deal with when handling an informant who is less than an ideal citizen. Turner is accused of posting messages last summer on his blog advocating the death…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If you’re going to make up a story and possibly go to prison for it, it might as well be a grand one. Enter Sylvia Mardini. The 24-year-old Los Angeles woman who pretended she had been kidnapped across state lines last summer, pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Los Angeles …
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has interviewed New York Mets shortstop Jose Reyes about a Canadian doctor accused of selling an unapproved drug known as Actovegin, an extract from calf’s blood used to speed healing, the Associated Press reported. Reyes said he was interviewed last week about Dr. Anthony Galea at the Mets spring…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some murder cases during the civil rights era aren’t likely to end up in court. The Washington Post’s Carrie Johnson reports that “three years after the FBI pledged to investigate more than 100 unsolved civil rights killings, the agency is ready to close all but a handful.” The Post reports that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In what appears to be a big break in a long drawn out investigation, a former lieutenant for the New Orleans police department pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court to covering up a police shooting involving multiple victims in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Justice Department said. Ex-Lt. Michael…
