By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Louis Freeh, who served as FBI director from 1993 to June 2001, was seriously injured Monday afternoon in a single-vehicle car crash in Vermont, CNN reported. CNN, citing a U.S. law enforcement official, said Freeh was undergoing surgery for unspecified injuries. CNN reported that the Vermont State Police said that Freeh…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An attorney charged with challenging a landmark report on the Penn State University investigation slammed the findings, saying they are inaccurate and misleading, the Pittsburgh Tribune Review reports. The attorney, Michael L. Bangs, criticized the author of the report, former FBI Director Louis Freeh. Bangs questions every page of the 267-page review…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former FBI director Louis Freeh is being sued for libel and defamation over his detailed report about the child sex abuse scandal at Penn State University, the Associated Press reports. The university’s former president, Graham Spanier, initiated the suit because of how he was characterized in the report. The filing came…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former FBI Director Louis Freeh was appointed by federal judges to investigate a court-supervised administrator of BP’s multibillion-dollar settlement, the Associated Press reports. Freeh, a private consultant, was named a “special master” by U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier. Freeh is to investigate whether an attorney on the staff of claims administrator, Patrick…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In the end, President Obama opted for a white guy — and a lawyer at that — to head the FBI. It appears America is not quite ready for a woman, or a black person for that matter, to head what the White House and some others clearly see as the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former FBI Director Louis Freeh urged graduating students Saturday to give back to their community during a commencement speech at St. Anselm College, the New Hampshire Union Leader reports. “We should all strive to help create a more perfect union,” said Freeh, who was selected because of his commitment to law enforcement,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The family of Joe Paterno commissioned a report that suggests the Penn State University coach did nothing wrong and was the victim of a rushed investigation, CBS News and the Associated Press report. The report argues that the probe into the handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, which was…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former FBI Director Louis Freeh, who last year led an investigation into the sexual abuse of Penn State University’s assistant football coach will take over the law firm Pepper Hamilton L.L.P. later this month, the Philadelphia Enquirer reports. Freeh, who is replacing Nina Gussak, merged his Wilmington-based law firm with Pepper…
