Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Nashville FBI agent who was sentenced last year to four years in prison for wire and bankruptcy fraud may get a new trial after allegations of racial discrimination surfaced, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday, the Tennessean reports. The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals said the case should be sent…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A retired president of the union representing U.S. Border Patrol Agents is accused of using hundreds of thousands of dollars in labor funds for personal use beginning in 2007, New American reports. Terrence J. “T.J.” Bonner, who is accused of 12 counts of conspiring to commit fraud, was indicted by a…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former research specialist for Immigration and Customs Enforcement was sentenced to probation for scheming with co-workers to use fake travel vouchers to steal more than $500,000 from the government, the Washington Examiner reports. William Korn, 53, was sentenced two years of probation and ordered to return tens of thousands of dollars…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents investigating bribery, fraud, extortion and money laundering at Trenton City Hall are probing the owner of a scrap auto and towing business, the New Jersey Times reports. Feds investigating Mayor Tony Mack’s administration are examining business dealings the city had with Nedal Abuhumoud, owner of Acres Auto in Hamilton and…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com In a real-life twist on Hitchcock’s “Psycho” character Norman Bates, it seems a New York man who impersonated his dead mother wanted to keep her credit line alive. Thomas Parkin, 51, of Brooklyn, was sentenced Monday to a minimum of 13 years and eight months in prison, for a real estate scam…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s showtime for former FBI agent John Robert Graves and his wife Sara Turberville Graves. Trial began Monday in fed court in Richmond for the two who are accused of defrauding 11 Virginians out of $1.3 million, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. Graves, 52, and his wife Sara, 44, are charged with…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two San Diego men were busted for impersonating FBI agents in a scheme to shake down a woman out of more than $200,000. NBC San Diego reports that the men posed as agents and told a woman that she was a victim of a fraud by her bank. They directed her…
