By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A former FBI agent has watched his life go from the American dream to the American nightmare, reports the Los Angeles Times. Darin McAllister was a preacher in southern LA before working for the LAPD. From there he moved onto the FBI, working undercover in LA and then Tennessee, the Times…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Creativity is one thing that never seems to be lacking when it comes to housing fraud, a pervasive problem. The latest: Five men have been charged in an FBI probe into bid rigging on foreclosed homes at public auction in northern California, a local ABC affiliate reported on Tuesday. A federal…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit has indicted ex-NBA player Jay Vincent who played with Magic Johnson at Michigan State University in an alleged $2 million Internet employment scam, the Associated Press reported. Authorities alleged that Vincent, 51, and Athony Portee, 53, both of Lansing, Mi., bilked jobseekers out of 20,000…
