By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Now for the lighter side of life. FBI agent Christopher Johnson was one of five agents who partook in the Ironman competition at Lake Placid, N.Y. on July 25, the FBI in Detroit announced. Johnson completed the 140.6 mile race — 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride and 26.2 mile…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Native New Yorker Diego Rodriguez is leaving the mothership at FBI headquarters to return home as special agent in charge of the criminal division in New York, the agency announced Thursday. Rodriguez, the section chief of the Domain and Collection Management Section in the Directorate of Intelligence at FBI…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Respect comes in different forms. In the mob world, it often comes in the form of $$$. Brooklyn federal prosecutors on Wednesday said mobbed up Staten Island jeweler Louis Antonelli was murdered because he disrespected Genovese capo Anthony Antico, 74, by failing to pay him cash kickbacks for selling gems at…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI in New York plans to send agents to Uganda to help investigate the deadly bombing that reportedly was carried out by a group aligned with al Qaeda, news sources reported. “The New York Joint Terrorism Task Force is in the process of deploying a team of agents and forensic…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – In the end, it left me scratching my head. Russian spies. Huh. So 60s. So Sputnik-era like. Forgive me, but some how, with al Qaeda and every other hell-bent-to-destroy-America group out there, Russian spies don’t seem all that threatening. Nonetheless, the FBI arrested 10 last week. And on Thursday…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In the past week women have broken the gender barrier at the FBI’s New York office. First Janice Fedarcyk was named the first woman to head the office. And on Thursday, the FBI announced that Mary E. Galligan will become the first woman special agent in charge at the office. She…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Janice Fedarcyk, one of the names that had been circulating as a prospect to head the New York FBI, has been named to that post. She is the first female to head that office. Fedarcyk currently heads up the Philadelphia FBI. Agent Richard Kolko, a spokesman for the N.Y. office, confirmed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If there was any question whether Times Square car bomber Faisal Shahzad might catch a break during sentencing for fully cooperating with the FBI, his statements in court on Monday may have cleared that all up: It’s highly highly unlikely. Shahzad pleaded guilty Monday and then warned the court of more…
