By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The cost for attending the September retirement party of Janice Fedarcyk, who just stepped down as head of the New York FBI, isn’t so cheap: $150. Some think that’s excessive for a party for the assistant director in charge (ADIC) of the New York office. “Everybody said ‘wholly crap,’” one agent…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s prison time for former FBI agent Adrian Busby. The New York Post reports that Busby was sentenced Monday in fed court in Manhattan to one year and one day in prison for leaking secret documents to help an informant who was also his lover. “Your life is now pretty much…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A Manhattan doctor has been supplying street gangs with the powerful painkiller Oxycodone for street sale, authorities say. Dr. Felix Rodriguez was arrested when DEA agents and deputy U.S. Marshals raided his offices Wednesday morning , reports NBC New York. The internal medicine doctor wrote hundreds of prescriptions for gang members…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Boyd M. Johnson III, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s number 2 person, whose name had surfaced in 2009 as a contender to fill DEA’s top spot, is leaving government to join a private law firm, Globe Newswire reported. Johnson plans to join the firm of WilmerHale in New York as a…
By Allan Lengelticklethewire.com A Manhattan federal judge who sentenced swindler Bernie Madoff has told the New York Times that he weighed different factors before handing out a 150 year sentence. Madoff’s lawyer Ira Lee Sorkin had tried to convince U.S. District Judge Denny Chin,57, to give a far lesser sentence. He cited, according…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Toss in an FBI agent, an informant and allegations of sex and you’ve got scandal. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan announced Tuesday the unsealing of an indictment charging FBI agent Adrian Busby, 37, with making false statements to protect a married confidential source he was allegedly having an affair with….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mobster Anthony “Tony D” Palumbo of the Genovese crime family was sentenced Thursday in Manhattan federal court to 10 years in prison for “murder conspiracy” that included a plot to bump off a hitman for the Russian mob. Palumbo, a soldier and an “acting capo” in the Genovese family, pleaded guilty…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Judith Socolov, a former Justice Department political analyst in the 1940s, who fell in love with a Soviet agent and was convicted of espionage, died over the weekend in Manhattan, the New York Times reported. She was 88. Judith Coplon, who later became Judith Socolov, was arrested by the FBI in…
