By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com New York law enforcement investigators on Sunday were looking at a surveillance tape that showed a white man in his 40s who appeared to be walking away from the area where a car bomb was placed Saturday evening in Times Square, looking over his shoulder and removing a layer of clothing,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI and New York police were trying to find out Sunday who left a Nissan Pathfinder with a crude bomb inside in Times Square Saturday night that prompted the evacuation of parts of the city on a busy Saturday night. FBI agent Richard Kolko, a spokesman for the FBI in…
Vo Duong Tran was an American success story who escaped Communist Vietnam as a kid and grew up to be an FBI agent. Problem was, he was crooked. Reporter Steve Warmbir of the Chicago Sun-Times tells the story of an FBI agent gone bad. Tran was recently sentenced to 30 years in prison for planning…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — We certainly haven’t heard the last of the explosion in West Virginia that killed 29 miners a few weeks ago. NPR News is reported that the FBI is investigating the possibility that Mine Safety and Health Administration workers, who inspect mines, took bribes and whether the owner of the…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An FBI official in Texas told state lawmakers Thursday that kidnappings in the border town of McAllen, Tex., have nearly quadrupled over the last fiscal year, and most were drug related, the Associated Press reported. John Johnson, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI McAllen office, said 42 people were…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News About three years ago, Los Angeles art dealer Tatiana Khan sold a 1902 pastel by Pablo Picasso for $2 million. She told the buyer it had come from the family of famed publisher Malcolm Forbes and was in fact worth far more. Only problem was the painting was a…
By Allan Lengel For AOL NEWS A former FBI agent was sentenced Monday in California to 30 years in prison for plotting a violent home invasion of a suspected drug stash house in Orange County in what turned out to be an FBI sting. Vo Duong Tran, 42, of New Orleans, was convicted in March…
