Jerry Capeci is a mob expert who formerly covered the Mafia for the New York Daily News. His website, Gang Land News, is a paid subscription site. This article was re-printed with permission. By Jerry Capeci Gang Land News Longtime mob buster Gerard Conrad, who helped put scores of wiseguys behind bars working as…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A New York man is accused of trying to buy guns for the terror group ISIS and has been charged with terrorism-related counts following an FBI investigation, NBC reports. The FBI alleges Mufid Elfgeeh wanted to kill American soldiers and Shiite Muslims in the U.S. He also wanted to recruit potential…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Harold H. Shaw has been named special agent in charge of the Intelligence Division at the New York Field Office. Since April 2013, he has served as a section chief and deputy director for law enforcement at the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center (CTC) as a liaison between the FBI and the CIA,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents were justified in fatally opening fire on a shooting suspect in Herkimer, New York, the Herkimer County district attorney has ruled, according to the Associated Press. Agents gunned down Kurt Myers, 64, in March 2013 after he was accused of fatally shooting four people. Myers was barricaded inside an abandoned…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Embattled U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, who is under federal indictment, retained his alter ego – Mikey Suits – from when he was working undercover for the FBI. While prosecutors were seeking a court order to track the Staten Island Republican’s cell phone, they discovered that Grimm kept a cell phone registered to…
By Benamin Wiser New York Times. NEW YORK — The fiery British cleric who prosecutors said had “devoted his life to violent jihad” and had dispatched young men around the world to train and fight was convicted of 11 terrorism-related charges on Monday in Manhattan. Prosecutors had charged that the cleric, Mostafa Kamel Mostafa, a…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Calling it one of the most bizarre cases he’s ever handled, U.S. District Judge Frank Geraci Jr. sentenced the New York man to a year in jail for lying to the FBI. The Elmira Star-Gazette reports that Brandon Todd lied and claimed he was a trafficker who had compelled women to join…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, a former FBI agent, was indicted Monday on 20 counts of fraud and other charges in connection to a Manhattan restaurant he owned, Fox News reports. The Republican from New York evading the IRS and hiding more than $1 million in profits to avoid paying taxes. Grimm, who…
