By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Relations between U.S. and Mexico may suffer even more in wake of the latest disclosure of a DEA money laundering sting. The New York Times reported that DEA agents allowed and even facilitated the movement of drug money among criminals in the hopes that the paper trail would lead to top …
Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Shades of Operation Fast and Furious? DEA agents have laundered or smuggled–or, “let walk”–millions of dollars in drug proceeds in an effort to trace the money to the end recipients, reports the New York Times. The DEA sought to understand how cartels moved their money, where assets were kept and, ultimately, who…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is making moves to try and get a better handle on the activities of terrorists. Charlie Savage of the The New York Times reports that federal law enforcement and national security officials plan next year to seek new regulations from Congress that would allow agencies to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It was TV mobster Tony Soprano who once muttered: “‘I dunno about morals, but I do got rules.’ Certainly the same could be said for some of the politicians and lobbyists on the Capitol Hill, who never seem to let us down when it comes to perpetuating the unsavory…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com John McNally: Hero cop or mob associate? Perhaps both. Federal authorities have filed court papers in U.S. District Court in Manhattan alleging that the retired New York cop, now 76, worked with the late mobster John Gotti’s hired gun Joseph Watts on extortion and money laundering crimes for years, the New…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com All is not always fair or safe in love and war. The FBI arrested a Florida woman on Monday with trying to hire a hitman to kill her ex-husband, who helped put her behind bars in a major drug-money laundering case, the Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel reported. Mercedes Morales, 57, of…
