A Look at One of the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives: A Russian Mobster
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Texas FBI Agent Convicted of Illegal Gun Sales and Lying to ATF
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal jury in El Paso deliberated for less than three hours Wednesday before convicting FBI agent John Thomas Shipley of dealing weapons without a permit and lying to ATF agents about the sales, the El Paso Times reported. ATF agents arrested Shipley, 40, last year after tracing back to him…
Ex-FBI Contract Linguist Loses NY Law License
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A contract linguist with the FBI in Maryland who pleaded guilty in December to disclosing classified information to a blogger, has had his law license suspended in New York, according to the New York Law Journal. The Law Journal reported that the Appellate Division, 3rd Department declined to set aside the…
Column: The History of April 19th: American Revolution, Waco, Oklahoma Bombing
Greg Stejskal, a columnist for ticklethewire.com. , was an FBI agent for 31 years before retiring as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor, Mi. office. He was one of the FBI SWAT team leaders who searched the Michigan farm of James Nichols, brother of convicted Oklahoma bomber Terry Nichols, in 1995 after the…
Philly Drug Kingpin Convicted of Hiring Hitman to Kill FBI Informant
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal jury in Philly convicted drug kingpin Maurice Phillips on Tuesday of hiring a hitman to kill a woman who was cooperating with the FBI in a case against him, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Phillips, 38, who ran a multimillion-dollar cocaine-distribution network stretching from Texas to New York, could get…
FBI Dir. Robert Mueller Visits the Heartland
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It never hurts for the officialdom of Washington to go beyond the Beltway and see the the rest of the country. FBI Director Robert Mueller on Monday did just that, and headed to the heartland to visit the FBI’s Springfield, Ill. office to thank employees and reiterate his agenda, the Associated…
Mi. Atty. Gen. Appoints Special Lawyer to Review FBI Shooting of Detroit Imam
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A highly respected and tenacious former Wayne County prosecutor, who prosecuted many high-profile cases, has been picked by the Michigan Attorney General to investigate the FBI’s fatal shooting last October of a Detroit Imam during a raid, the Detroit Free Press reported Monday. Attorney General Mike Cox picked former Wayne County…
Relatives Get Rare Opportunity to Raise Objections to Release of Certain FBI Files of Ted Kennedy
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – In a rare move, the family of Edward M. Kennedy will be allowed to raise objections before thousand of pages of the late Senator’s FBI file are released, the Boston Globe reports. The paper reports that the the FBI is providing the “uncommon” opportunity so that the privacy rights…