By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Many are wondering whether or not the feds are helping crack down on the Occupy Wall Street movements spreading throughout the country, reports the Huffington Post. Federal agencies deny any involvement, but that doesn’t seem to satisfy all. The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund and the National Lawyers Guild Mass Defense Committee,…
By GINGER THOMPSON New York Times WASHINGTON — American law enforcement agencies have significantly built up networks of Mexican informants that have allowed them to secretly infiltrate some of that country’s most powerful and dangerous criminal organizations, according to security officials on both sides of the border. As the United States has opened new law…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com In June of last year the feds shut down the website NinjaVideo.net, which let millions of viewers see copyright-protected movies and television programs in high-quality formats for free or for a nominal fee. On Thursday, one of the site’s founders, Hana A. Beshara of Las Vegas, pleaded guilty in Alexandria, Va. to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The feds on Friday said 94 people were charged in schemes to collect more than $251 million in Medicare claims, calling it the largest health care fraud takedown since the Medicare Fraud Strike Force was created in 2007. Federal authorities alleged that the suspected cheats took part in schemes…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The drama and embarrassment in the Motown continues Tuesday when ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick — once dubbed the “Hip Hop Mayor” — steps into a downtown federal courtroom to face arraignment on 19 felony fraud and income tax counts, the Detroit News reports. Kilpatrick is already in prison. He served 99…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Well, social networking isn’t just for socializing anymore. An internal Justice Department document obtained under the Freedom of Information Act shows federal agents are going undercover on such social networks as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter to investigate cases, according to the Associated Press. The AP reports that agents…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In what came as little of a surprise, federal prosecutors in Chicago charged suspected terrorist David Coleman Headley with helping plot the deadly India attack in Mumbia that killed more than 165 people in 2008. The Associated Press reported that prosecutors charged Headley with helping scope out targets for the Mumbai…
It’s often hard to tell just how threatening some of the home grown groups are. And at what point do they clearly become a threat and a terrorist? Is there such a thing as waiting too long to find out? By Jeff Stein Spy Talk WASHINGTON — The feds have been hyping their domestic terrorism…
