
Brazen Thief Steals Copper from FBI Construction Site in New Orleans
A brazen New Orleans man was arrested after stealing copper from a construction project at the FBI New Orleans Field Office.
A brazen New Orleans man was arrested after stealing copper from a construction project at the FBI New Orleans Field Office.
Eric J. Rommal, a 20-year veteran of the FBI, will begin serving as special agent in charge of the bureau’s New Orleans Division.
An FBI agent who was suspended after he alerted a judge to alleged prosecutorial misconduct by the New Orleans U.S. attorney’s office has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the bureau and several superiors.
Orleans Parish Jail.
By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The Justice Department has asked a federal judge to remove New Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman’s authority to operate the jail after failing to comply with a 2013 consent decree.
The revelations are part of a lawsuit by the Desdunes family that claims he “did nothing to provoke” the deadly shooting.
The new special agent in charge of the New Orleans division has plenty of experience investigating public corruption and civil rights abuses.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Charles McGinty, a retired FBI agent with an impressive resume, died Thursday of unknown causes, NOLA.com reports. He was 67. McGinty was supervisor of a public corruption squad in the FBI’s New Orleans office when he retired in 2004. After retiring, McGinty became a security director for Fidelity Homstead Savings Bank,…