By DEVLIN BARRETT and KIRSTEN GRIND Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON—In extracting multibillion-dollar fines from Citigroup Inc. and other big banks, prosecutors say they are trying to deter future corporate wrongdoing by making shareholders angry enough to demand changes. It is a significant shift in tone for the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation, which…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Howard S. Marshall, who began working with the FBI in 1997, has been named special agent in charge of the Louisville Division. The Associated Press reports that Marshall will succeed Perrye K. Turner, who is becoming the new leader of the agency’s Houston office. Marshall served as inspector in the Inspector Division…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Director James Comey warned Monday of the dangers of Americans traveling to Syria to fight in a “misguided jihad,” the Miami Herald reports. During his first visit with the Miami bureau, Comey said he’s concerned with Americans traveling to Syria, receiving terrorism training and returning to the U.S. Comey estimates more…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Although counterterrorism remains the FBI’s top priority, public corruption isn’t far behind, FBI Director James Comey said during a visit with local law enforcement in Baltimore. WBALTV.com reports that Comey addressed concerns among officials that public corruption remains a problem. “Public corruption has long been one of the FBI’s top priorities, one…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Director James Comey deals with a lot of bad people – terrorists, mobsters, rapists, murderers. To stay centered, Comey told a group of new recruits recently that he and his wife are emergency foster parents, NPR reports. “You’re gonna get to see a lot of bad things in this work, a lot…
Editorial By Herald Review James Comey became FBI director last year, at a time when Osama bin Laden was dead, terrorism at home was on the decline and the United States was shrinking its inflammatory presence in the Muslim world. So naturally, he says the danger is way worse than you think.Referring to al-Qaida groups…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When James B. Comey became the FBI’s new director last year, many observers believed he’d usher in a new era at the bureau by shifting some of the focus away from terrorism. But the New York Times reports that Comey, a former Justice Department prosecutor who focused on gun cases, appears to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — Just in case you were wondering, the answer is Yes. FBI Director James B. Comey, who was in Detroit Tuesday to visit with the local agents and law enforcement folks, told reporters that he keeps in touch with the man he replaced, Robert S. Mueller III. “He’s been a…
