By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol tactical team shot and killed one of two murderers who escaped from a maximum-security prison in upstate New York following a massive three-week manhunt, CNN reports. Richard Matt was killed Friday in Malone, N.Y. On Sunday, a New York State trooper shot and wounded the second fugitive, David…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A high-ranking DEA agent, who retired last month, and a telecommunications specialist for the agency were arrested on charges they flouted their duties by running a lucrative strip club in New Jersey where prostitution was captured on security video, the Associated Press reported. AP reports that court papers in New York…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The bust was so big that federal authorities are already calling it the largest seizure of heroin in New York City history. The DEA helped nab a pair of suspected Bronx drug traffickers in what turned out to be the largest seizure of heroin in the city’s history, NBC New York…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal prosecutors said FBI agents did not violate the law by tracking a New York assemblyman using cell phone tower data, The Times-Union reports. Assemblyman William Scarborough had no reasonable expectation of privacy because he was using a cell tower, which prosecutors argued is essentially a business record. The Queens Democrat…
Correction: The original headline read that Robert Kobus was a former FBI agent. He is currently employed by the FBI. By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When Robert Kobus blew the whistle on an FBI supervisor for allowing favorite employees to take off work during their birthday a decade ago, he found himself alone in an…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Richard Frankel, who began his FBI career as a special agent in the New York Field Office in 1995, is the new agent in charge of the bureau’s Newark Division, MyCentralJersey.com reports. Comey named Frankel to the position after serving in several different positions in New York. He fought organized crime…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating voter fraud and financial mismanagement of politicians in The Bronx, the New Work Post reports. The probe comes at a time when Albany’s power shifted to Bronx politicians after Sheldon Silver stepped down as speaker of the New York Assembly following his arrest by the FBI. Replacing…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One of New York government’s most influential and well-known politicians faces serious charges that he used his extraordinary power in return for millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks, The Associated Press reports. The FBI arrested Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who posted $200,000 bail after being charged with federal counts of…
