Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI used a government informant to see if Trenton Mayor Tony Mack and his sidekicks would accept a bribe over a fake land-development deal, the Associated Press reports. Turns out, it worked, the FBI announced after arresting Mack, his brother Ralphiel and others early Monday morning. Mack, his brother and mayoral…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An ATF supervisor in the Seattle office has stepped down after a paid informant sexually abused and imprisoned a woman while working for the agency, The Seattle Times reports. Special Agent Jim Contreras came under fire after The Seattle Times revealed that he hired informant Joshua Allan Jackson, who had a lengthy…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com U.S. officials report a break-through in tackling drug trafficking from South America, according to the Associated Press. A former Venezuelan Supreme Court justice Eladio Aponte may be seeking permanent refuge in the U.S. for himself and his family in exchange for evidence linking Venezuelan officials to drug trafficking and corruption, and linking Venezuela…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Blogger Micah Morrison seeks justice in a decades old cop-killer case, and wants the FBI to reveal any hidden cards. Last weekend marked 40 years since Police Officer Phillip Cardillo was shot and killed in Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam Mosque No. 7 in Harlem, reports Micah Morrison for the NY Daily…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com After earning more than $9 million over the course of 15 years as one of the government’s highest paid informants in history, Carlos Sagastume unveiled his identity at the New York trial of international arms dealer Viktor Bout, reports the Associated Press. Bout’s month-long trial ended in a Manhattan federal court…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Nine months from retirement, a Tennessee ATF agent was notified in August that the agency intended to fire him. But the ATF agent Steve Parris, an African American, says the recommendation to fire him is rooted in nothing more than an informant’s racism, backed by the informant’s law enforcement buddy, Vonore,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mark Rossetti, a reputed capo in the New England Mafia, has been working all along as an FBI informant or “rat” as they say in the mob world. The Boston Globe reports the revelation came out in court documents filed this week in Suffolk Superior Court. Rossetti was indicted last year…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Family loyalty may be good in most instances, but apparently not in this one. Federal authorities last week charged three relatives with lying for Weldon Gordon, 33, a suburban D.C. man accused of killing an undercover DEA informant Andre Hayes in 2008, the D.C. Examiner reported. The relatives, who were arrested…
