By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Agents with the FBI have arrested a group of individuals operating a fraud ring out of a luxury high-rise Brooklyn condo, reports the New York Post. The alleged ringleader, Kwan Miller, used a European instant-messaging service to obtain stolen credit card numbers while chatting with contacts in Russia, according to the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com One moment you’re driving down a New York state Thruway and the next you’re in prison facing drug charges in connection with violent Mexican drug cartel. Texas residents Ruby Irene Maxwell, Mary Ann Selgado and Matthew Octavious Sandoval were arrested after their vehicle was searched on a state thruway and police…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A New York city councilman is recanting comments he made over the weekend critical of the FBI, reports the New York Post City Councilman Peter Koo (D-Queens) likened an FBI investigation looking into the campaign finances of his friend Comptroller John Liu to “political entrapment” on a radio show over the…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Four members of the Bonanno organized crime family were arrested early Friday in New York by DEA and FBI agents on charges of racketeering, gambling and drug sales, reports NBC. Also charged in the case was Anthony Graziano, the father of Mob Wives” reality show star Renee Graziano . Vincent Badalamenti,…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Nine people were in indicted on Friday in a suspected narcotics ring near Rochester, N.Y., ABC reports. Between 2008 and 2012, authorities from local police precincts and the ATF say, the indicted used rental properties to distribute 280 grams of crack and five kilograms of cocaine. They also face weapons charges,…
By Kevin Johnson USA Today WASHINGTON – The U.S. government dispatched 55 prosecutors, FBI agents and analysts Friday to a new financial crimes enforcement unit focusing on home mortgage abuses that fueled the 2008 economic collapse. For the first time since the crisis, federal investigators will be joined by state law enforcement officials as part…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com You never know where the next big shipment of cocaine may end up. DEA agents and New York City police are investigating a shipment of a reported $2 million worth of cocaine intercepted last week at the United Nations headquarters, in New York, reports FOX. Around 35 pounds of cocaine, stuffed…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Consider the streets of Suffolk County, N.Y. that much safer: Five members of the violent street gang MS-13 were named in a indictment unsealed on Monday, the FBI announced later that day. The charges include murder in aid of racketeering, assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering, armed robberies, firearms…
