By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A veteran California FBI agent who investigated white collar crimes has agreed to plead guilty to illegally accessing FBI files to help an acquaintance collect a debt, according to court records. A plea agreement filed by the U.S. Attorneys Office in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, Calif. said that agent…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Over the years, many people have impersonated FBI agents, but few have gone as far as Brenna Marie Reilly. She even hired an assistant who worked out of her apartment. Reilly, 29, of Arlington, Va., now faces a federal indictment in Virginia. She is free but in her mother’s…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Thomas J. Padden, the FBI agent who arrested fugitive Patricia Hearst in 1975, has died at age 84 in San Rafael, Calif. after a prolonged illness, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Padden specialized in bank robbery and fraud and was known as the agent, along with San Francisco cop Tim Casey,…
Press conference announcing site: (Left to right) FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) Michael Harpster, Newark Division; ASAC Belle Chen, New York Division; ETS Chief Operating Officer Steve Childress; and ETS North Central Regional Managing Director Rick Battelle Photo Credit: Matthew Coleman, FBI By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Law enforcement continues to take advantage of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI apparently wasn’t the only one recording mob conversations. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that FBI agents this week raided the suburban home of imprisoned legendary Chicago mob hitman Frank Calabrese Sr. and found 10 to 15 secret recordings he had made between himself and other gangsters. The paper reported that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI and U.S. Capitol Police have had their hands full since the passage of the controversial health care bill. The Detroit News Washington bureau reports that the agencies are looking into threats against at least 10 Democratic lawmakers. Included among the targets is Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mi), the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — James C. Trainor, Jr., an assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston office, is hopping over to the New York office to become the special agent in charge of the Intelligence Division. Trainor joined the FBI in 1996 and was first assigned to the Chicago office where…
