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…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A 600-page, never-released Justice Department report concludes that the American intelligence officials created a “safe haven” in the U.S. for Nazis and their collaborators after World War II, the New York Times reports. “It describes the government’s posthumous pursuit of Dr. Josef Mengele, the so-called Angel of Death at…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Former Los Angeles U.S. Atty. Thomas P. O’Brien says he wrote a check this week reimbursing the government in instances where he stayed in hotel rooms that cost more than the government-approved rate, the Los Angeles Times reported. O’Brien was one of five U.S. Attorneys cited in a Justice…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As a U.S. Attorney in New Jersey who crusaded against corruption, Chris Christie — now the New Jersey governor — routinely stayed in expensive hotels at taxpayer expense, far exceeding the government allowance, according to a Justice Department Inspector General report released Monday. The report, which looked at the travel of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two undercover ATF agents agents infiltrated the violent Pagans Outlaw Motorcycle Gang and derailed a plot to kill rival Hells Angels members with homemade grenades, the New York Daily News reported. That interesting tidbit came out as federal agents rounded up 19 members and associates of the Pagans Outlaw Motorcycle Gang,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The acting capo of the Genovese organized crime family pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in New York to taking part in a conspiracy to commit murder of a hitman for the Russian mob, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Authorities say that Anthony Palumbo, a soldier and Acting Capo in the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The fun is over for Brenna Marie Reilly. The Washington Examiner reports she was sentenced Friday in federal court in Alexandra, Va., to 30 days in prison and four months of house arrest for impersonating an FBI agent and hiring an assistant to work for her as a fake…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It happens from time to time. Nonetheless, it’s never good. CBS News reports that an off-duty FBI agent had his M-4 rifle and bulletproof vest were stolen from his car in New Jersey Saturday night. The television station reported that the New Jersey FBI was on the hunt to recover the…
