By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent who has been integral in dozens of insider-trading convictions and oversaw the Bernie Madoff trial is now working for Goldman Sachs Group, Bloomberg reports. Patrick Carroll, 50, who spent nearly 25 years with the bureau, has become the vice president of Goldman Sach’s compliance, surveillance and strategy group….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A special agent for the FBI has been fired and is under investigation for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars while working on a drug task force in Riverside, Calif., ABC7 reports. Scott Bowman, who joined the bureau in 2005, was escorted out of FBI headquarters in early February and fired. He…
By Paul Giblin The Republic A federal judge suspects that seven attorneys representing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives committed fraud in the case of a retired federal agent who infiltrated the Hells Angels motorcycle gang in Arizona. Court of Federal Claims Judge Francis Allegra banned the attorneys from filing documents in his…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One of President Obama’s closest friends is not cooperating in a federal investigation, prompting the Justice Department to seek Dr. Eric E. Whitaker as a “hostile witness,” the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Prosecutors filed the motion Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Springfield, where a Chicago businessman, Leon Dingle Jr., is on…
The Justice Department isn’t exactly having trouble finding fraud in the military.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A retired FBI agent pleaded guilty to 11 federal charges of fraud, conspiracy and obstruction of justice after prosecutors say he tried to derail an investigation into a $54 million military contract, the Associated Press reports. Robert Lustyik Jr. was expected to start trail Monday in federal court but decided to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Special Agent Chris Combs has been busy since taking over the FBI’s San Antonio office in April. Combs, who opened the San Antonio office for a media tour on Monday, covers a large area of South Texas and also works out of offices in Austin, Waco and along the border, KSAT 12…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating two scams that target some of the families of the tens of thousands of Central American children who have been captured recently trying to sneak into the U.S., Al Jazeera America reports. The telephone scams involve asking families for money for phony travel costs. “One fraud scheme involved…
