Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is consolidating two offices in Mississippi into a larger one in Oxford as part of a budget-cutting move, according to the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. But the move – relocating Tupelo and Greenville into Oxford –won’t affect staffing, an FBI spokeswoman told the Daily Journal. “The consolidation will not affect the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI kept a file on the late outspoken writer Christopher Hitchens, the website Historiographic Anarchy reports. The website reported that the FBI released through the Freedom of Information Act, 19 pages on Hitchens, some which show he was the subject of an FBI Foreign Counterintelligence probe. He died in December…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mississippi FBI agent Hal Neilson is back on the job, gun, badge and all, just days before he’s set to retire, according to the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. Neilson’s attorney said he was resinstated on Monday, weeks after he was acquitted on two counts centering around allegations that he lied about…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal jury in Mississippi on Saturday found FBI agent Hal Neilson not guilty on two counts relating to charges that he failed to disclose his ownership in a building housing the FBI in Oxford, Miss., and then lied about it, News360.com reported. The jury deadlocked on three other counts and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The defense begins its case Monday in the trial of FBI agent Hal Neilson, who is accused of hiding his interest in a building in Oxford, Miss., that housed the FBI office he headed up, and then lying about it. The prosecution rested its case, using recordings and documents to show…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With trial set to begin next week, a federal judge has ruled that an FBI agent accused of lying about his ownership in a building the FBI leased in Oxford, Miss., cannot allege in court that the charges were the result of a vendetta by then-U.S. Attorney Jim Greenlee, the Associated…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is asking a federal judge in Mississippi to stop defense attorneys for an indicted FBI agent from alleging that the charges stem from a vendetta from the former U.S. Attorney, the Associated Press reported. The agent, Hal Neilson, was indicted in January for allegedly failing to disclose his…
