By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former state Assemblyman Joe Errigo, who faces bribery charges, started wearing an FBI wire after he was approached by the FBI, NBC News 10 reports. NBC Chief Investigative Reporter Berkeley Brean confirmed the information with two unnamed sources. Errigo is charged with taking money in exchange for sponsoring a piece of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Christopher M. Piehota, special agent in charge of the FBI office in Buffalo, will leave soon to become director of the Terrorists Screening Center in Washington D.C. , the Buffalo News reports. “To be honest, it’s one of the first lines of defense in our national security,” he said of the screening…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a mysterious drone spotted Monday by a commercial pilot near the John F. Kennedy International Airport, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The Federal Aviation Administration said the pilot “saw a small, unmanned or remote-controlled aircraft while on final approach to Runway 31 Right at John F. Kennedy International…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Clad in blue jeans and a tan jacket, ex-N.Y. Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik left his New Jersey home Monday to report to a federal minimum-security prison in Cumberland, Md., ABC News reported. Kerik, 54, who became a hero after the 9/11 attacks, began serving his four-year term on eight felony counts…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The talk among law enforcement on Wednesday was that the New York police were trying to distance themselves and blame the FBI for losing the surveillance of car bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad. The media was also pointing to it as a flaw in what still remains a remarkable case…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn continues to chip away at the Colombo crime family. On Tuesday, the office announced the indictment of eight people tied to the notorious crime family on charges including fraud and extortion linked to the World Trade Center. The indictment alleges that the Colombo-controlled trucking company…
Former US Attorney General Michael Mukasey, FBI Assistant Director in Charge (ADIC) Joseph Demarest Devorah Halberstam and the Honorable Rudolph Giuliani, Former Mayor of New York. Photo credit: Matthew Coleman, FBI By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Devorah Halberstam, whose son was killed in a terrorist attack on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1994, was honored last week…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Can you spell M-I-S-T-R-I-A-L? Well, it may be too early to assume one will be declared in the racketeering trial of mobster John Gotti Jr., but it can’t be ruled out at this point. A federal judge in New York ordered jurors on Thursday to keep deliberating even after they declared…
