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…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 40-year-old multi-millionaire who had once been married to the U.S. Ambassador to Spain, reportedly had “considerable information” about sex parties at a New York Hotel involving the Kennedys and some famous entertainers, according to a 1965 FBI file released Monday. The July 1965 FBI file, part of a ream of…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News Convicted swindler Bernie Madoff was no terrorist in the traditional sense, but he did terrorize many clients by robbing them of their finances and psychological security. Hoping to spot financial scandals before they get too far — or too Madoff-like — the FBI in New York is increasingly employing…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The legal fate of Faisal Shahzad, the confessed Times Square car bomb plotter, remained unclear this week. U.S. Magistrate Judge Theodore H. Katz in Manhattan postponed a preliminary hearing that had been set for earlier this week on Tuesday, the deadline for the government to file an indictment or possibly go…
Stories like this may provide some insight into the latest attempted terrorist attack involving Faisal Shahzad, a man came from a well-to-do family in Pakistan,who was making a life as an American, but became increasingly angry at the U.S. and its policies. By Andrea Elliott, Sabrina Tavernise and Anne Barnard New York Times Just after…
