By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Criminal proceedings are moving forward in the case against Mississippi agent Philip Halbert Neilson, who is accused of failing to disclose his financial interest in a leased FBI building in Oxford, Miss. Neilson pleaded not guilty Monday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Allan Alexander in Oxford, the Associated Press reported. A March…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal agents shot a Muslim imam 21 times and then handcuffed him during an October FBI raid in Dearborn, a Detroit suburb, a yet to be released autopsy report concluded, according to the Detroit Free Press. Free Press reporter Ben Schmitt, who attributed the information to a “person familiar with the…
By Allan Lengel For Aol News Six bank robberies and five months later, the FBI in San Diego is still hunting for a mystery man in his 60s or 70s who’s been famously dubbed the “Geezer Bandit.” His latest stickup came on Wednesday at the San Diego National Bank around 5:50 p.m. According to the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The badly burned underwear bomber told authorities as he was led away on Christmas Day that there was a second bomb aboard the Northwest plane that have arrived from Amsterdam, when in fact there was not, the Associated Press reported. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab made incriminating statements to Customs officials…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There are those who are trying to figure out how to help the folks in Haiti. And then there are those who are trying to figure out how scam the charity-minded people. On Friday, the FBI arrested a suburban Detroit man who impersonated an FBI agent collecting money for Haiti, WDIV…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Alice J. Manning, 82, who was featured in a Washington Post article in 1946 along with her seven brothers and sisters, and who worked as a secretary for the FBI and an administrative assistant for the Justice Department, died in Baltimore last month, the Washington Post reported Friday. She…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A yet to be released Justice Department report is expected to conclude that the FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 during the Bush administration, the Washington Post reported. The paper reported that the FBI illegally collected the records by “by invoking terrorism…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kerry plans to introduce legislation requiring the FBI to release more records relating to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Boston Globe is reporting. The bill would require that all the files be “located, reviewed, and released by a review board at the National Archives similar to…
