By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Convicted right winger, New Jersey Internet shock jock Harold “Hal” Turner, who once worked as an FBI informant, claims his life is in danger now that he’s housed in federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., with notorious prisoners, the Jersey Journal reported. “I probably won’t even see it coming,” Turner wrote…
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 WASHINGTON — FBI agent Donald E. Oswald, the chief inspector in the office of Inspections, is heading to Minneapolis to head up the bureau’s office. Oswald, 52, who has a law degree, joined the FBI in 1992 and first served in the Los Angeles Division where he investigated bank robberies and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-New Jersey U.S. Attorney and current Governor Chris Christie tried Wednesday to put an end to speculation that he might make a bid for president as a Republican in 2012. Appearing on NBC’s Today show, Christie, 48, told Ann Curry: “There is no chance , zero chance, under any circumstances. Close…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News Federal authorities Thursday announced what they called the largest mob roundup in FBI history: the indictment of 127 people, including key Mafia figures from the New York, New Jersey and New England crime families, on charges ranging from murder and racketeering to gambling, extortion and loan-sharking. About 800 law…
By Ronald Kessler Newsmax WASHINGTON — We are used to liberals trying to take away the tools FBI agents need to uncover terrorist plots. But when conservatives — who generally support strong national security — do the same thing, it is particularly dismaying. Fox News commentator Andrew Napolitano and a few other conservatives have been…
Andrew Kreig is Executive Director of the Justice Integrity Project. Kreig has two decades experience as an attorney and non-profit executive in Washington, DC and is an author and longtime investigative reporter. By Andrew Kreig The Justice Department is dropping its disreputable star witness in the latest trial of the 46-defendant “Bid Rig III” corruption…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI Thursday morning arrested two people who worked for swindler Bernie Madoff. Joann Crupi was arrested at her home in Westfield, NJ and Annette Bongiorno was arrested at her home in Boca Raton, Fla., said Richard Kolko, spokesman for the FBI in New York. “Charges, in connection with the Madoff…
