By Jason Grant The Star Ledger NEWARK — The head of the Newark Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation will retire from government service on Dec. 31, the agency announced today. Michael Ward had not indicated in recent weeks or months that he would be leaving the post and retiring from government service. A…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The New York Police Department’s spying on Muslims in New Jersey is not only ticking off Muslims. The FBI is none too happy. The Newark Star-Ledger reports that the NYPD activity, which as been written about in the media, is rubbing Michael Ward, head of the New Jersey FBI, the wrong…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Computer geeks are wreaking so much havoc we may soon have to have prison just for geeks. The latest: The FBI has busted Jason Cornish, 37, of Smyrna, Ga., with hacking into a New Jersey pharmaceutical company’s computer network and shutting down operations, resulting in losses of at least $300,000, according…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two New Jersey men were arrested late Saturday at JFK Airport as they prepared to head to Somalia to join up with the radical Islamic group Al Shabaab and kill American troops overseas, the FBI announced Sunday. Mahmood Alessa, 20, of North Bergen, N.J. and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 24, of Elmwood…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Michael Ward, the new head of the FBI’s Newarks office, is getting his feet wet, getting to know his agents, quickly learning what clearly will be a big priority, the Newark Star-Legder reports. “After my first couple of briefings, I think I can safely say that corruption is an issue in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Michael B. Ward has been plucked from the FBI mothership to head the agency’s Newark Division, starting in March. Ward, currently the assistant director of Counterrorism Division’s Operations Branch II at headquarters, started his FBI career in 1988 and spent the first nine years in the Dallas office dealing…
