By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Feds have been busy in Detroit, where a major drug bust ended with 15 people indicted for peddling a “massive amount” of cocaine and marijuana across the metro Detroit area, reports the Detroit Free Press. All were charged with running the operation from 2008 to 2011, while three were also…
Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Got a smoke? The ATF closed a three-year joint investigation by the US Attorney’s office for the Western District of Virginia and District of South Carolina, the ATF, the IRS, ICE and the Shenandoah County Sheriff’s Department with multiple arrests in a scheme to move and tobacco illegally between Virginia and South…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Four senior citizens, suspected of being members of a fringe militia group in Northern Georgia, may have been better off venting their frustrations with the federal government by occupying a metropolitan park. The four gents–Frederick Thomas, 73; Dan Roberts, 67; Ray Adams, 65; and Samuel Crump, 68–were arrested Tuesday by federal…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Let’s face it, we seldom expect an IRS employee to cheat on their taxes. And then get caught? Well….meet Albert Bront. Bront, an IRS revenue agent, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Los Angeles federal court to filing false tax returns for himself and innocent relatives, who were duped, authorities said. He claimed,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former IRS revenue officer pleaded guilty Wednesday in Greenbelt, Md., to taking payoffs from a tax preparer to access inside information about clients, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. Mark E. Hunt, 45, of Baltimore admitted unlawfully accessing 12 taxpayer accounts at the IRS, authorities said. According to Hunt’s guilty plea,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The irony is never lost when a former IRS agent gets busted for cheating on taxes. Ex-agent John Venuti,62, of Harwood, Md., pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to failing to file federal income tax returns from 2001 to 2006. He owed $789,629 in back taxes. Authorities said…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The old white powder in the envelope trick continues to scare people and disrupt work places even though none have ever proved dangerous since the 2001 attacks that killed five people and sickened 17. The latest: White powder envelopes, that were later found to be harmless, were discovered Monday in eight…
The popularity of online gambling has certainly caught the eyes of the feds considering it’s illegal in the U.S. Investigative reporter Van Smith takes a look at what the feds are doing about it. By Van Smith Baltimore City Paper BALTIMORE — On Dec. 21, 2006, someone in Maryland opened an account with bodog.com, an…
