Did Justice Dept. Railroad Ex-FBI & CIA Agent Nada Prouty?
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Calif. FBI Agent Thomas Padden Who Arrested Patty Hearst Dies at Age 84
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,…
NY-NJ FBI Launch New Website for Bank Robbers
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…
FBI Agents Find Secret Recordings in Chicago Mobster’s Suburban Home
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…
FBI & Capitol Police Probe Threats Against at Least 10 Dem Lawmakers Tied to Health Care Vote
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…
James Trainor to Head the FBI’s Intelligence Division in N.Y.
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…
Tea Party Activists Gone Wild? FBI is Investigating Va. Case
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Could this be a case of the Tea Party gone wild? Politico reports that the FBI is looking into a propane gas line that was cut at the home of a Congressman’s brother’s home in Charlottesville, Va. The Congressman, Tom Perriello (D-Va.) voted in favor of the health care…
Column: What Happens to NY’s Top FBI Agent Joseph Demarest?
Len Levitt wrote the police column “One Police Plaza” for Newsday for 10 years and has worked for several other publications including Time magazine. His website is nypdconfidential.com By Len Levitt nypdconfidential.com Does the Federal Bureau of Investigation frown on romance? Or does love cause some New York agents to lose their way? Joe Demarest,…