Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI agent, along with a defense contractor, was indicted Thursday for participating in what authorities say was a multimillion-dollar scheme to win military contracts in Afghanistan, the Associated Press reports. An FBI special agent assigned to counterintelligence work until September 2011, Robert G. Lustyik, 50, is accused of using his…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Bangladeshi man is accused of assembling what he thought was a 1,000 pound bomb and trying to detonate it to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Reuters reports. The FBI said Wednesday that Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis drove the devise to the bank and walked back to his…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com New York has had its share of big drug busts. But when it comes to methamphetamine, the state has never seen a bigger one than the 50 pounds seized from a boardinghouse in Westchester County, CBS New York reports. The DEA called it the biggest meth bust in New York State history….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An ex-FBI agent pleaded guilty Friday to obtaining information about an undercover law enforcement operation in Newark and giving it to a close friend, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Newark announced. In June 2011, Ivan Stantchev was asked by a friend to obtain confidential information in connection with four telephone numbers…
Steve Neavling Ticklethewire.com April Brooks, the new head of the FBI’s criminal division in New York, seems to have done it all. The first woman to run New York’s criminal division, the 45-year-old helped track down sex offenders and murders, crack down on dangerous gangs and go after corrupt officials, Reuters reports. “This is just…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The cost for attending the September retirement party of Janice Fedarcyk, who just stepped down as head of the New York FBI, isn’t so cheap: $150. Some think that’s excessive for a party for the assistant director in charge (ADIC) of the New York office. “Everybody said ‘wholly crap,’” one agent…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Janice Fedarcyk, the fist woman to head the N.Y. FBI office, who oversaw some major terrorists, mob and Wall Street probes, is retiring to enter the private sector, the Wall Street Journal reports. Janice Fedarcyk, assistant director in charge of the New York bureau, plans to start a consulting firm in Washington…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com New York’s restrictive gun laws have triggered a rash of gun sales from other states, a federal report shows, Newsday reports. Because the state prohibits machine guns and possessing handguns without a license, weapons are brought into New York from elsewhere, according to a report by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms….
