By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Another ex-big city mayor is headed to federal prison. On Wednesday, C. Ray Nagin, the ex-mayor New Orleans was sentenced to 10 years in prison on corruption charges. He was convicted in February. Nagin was found guilty in February on 20 counts that included kickbacks from contractors seeking city work,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has declined to open a criminal investigation into the FBI-involved shooting that left a New Orleans man dead during an undercover drug sting last summer, the Times-Picayune reports. It’s the second time an agency has opted against pursuing charges against the agent, who shot 37-year-old Allen Desdunes on July…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Director James Comey sought to assure agents and local law enforcement that the bureau plans to increase staff, training and resources in what will be a much less frugal 2014. The Times-Picayune reports that Comey, during his visit to the bureau’s New Orleans Field Office on Thursday, said the beefed-up budget…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent who fatally shot a suspect during a sting operation won’t face state charges from the locals, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro said this weekend that local prosecutors don’t have jurisdiction over the agent. “When a federal agent is acting in the course and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com New Orleans police and federal authorities are on the hunt for a man they believe opened fire at a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans that injured 19, the Associated Press reports. The suspect was identified as Akein Scott, 19, who was seen in blurry surveillance camera images of the mass shooting….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI suspects that the New Orleans Parade shooting was the result of “street violence,” not terrorism, the Huffington Post reports. Gunmen opened fire at the Mother’s Day parade, injuring at least 19 people. Videos from the shooting shows victims scattered on the ground, bleeding. FBI agents said the shooting appears to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Joseph P. McMahon, who joined the FBI in 1967 and worked his way up as a section chief specializing in foreign counterintelligence, died at his Alexandria home earlier this month. The Washington Post reports that McMahon died after a battle with cancer. He was 72. McMahon started a supervisor of the political…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Jimmy Fox III, head of the DEA in New Orleans, is the subject of an internal investigation, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. The paper reports he may have violated some ethics laws when he put in a bid to oversee sweeping reforms in the police department that had been ordered under…
