Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com The Supremes spent a very busy June and completed opinions on six difficult criminal cases, as well as three important civil cases and…
Few people in the FBI have the experience cracking down on public corruption quite like Michael Anderson.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI team handling the civil rights investigation into the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man killed by a white NYPD officer, has plenty of experience with long-term probes and public corruption cases. CNN reports that the New York-based agents are taking a “free look” into the July death…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Charles McGinty, a retired FBI agent with an impressive resume, died Thursday of unknown causes, NOLA.com reports. He was 67. McGinty was supervisor of a public corruption squad in the FBI’s New Orleans office when he retired in 2004. After retiring, McGinty became a security director for Fidelity Homstead Savings Bank,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Although counterterrorism remains the FBI’s top priority, public corruption isn’t far behind, FBI Director James Comey said during a visit with local law enforcement in Baltimore. WBALTV.com reports that Comey addressed concerns among officials that public corruption remains a problem. “Public corruption has long been one of the FBI’s top priorities, one…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Agent Charles W. Stuber Jr. knows a thing or two about public corruption, from going after U.S. Sen. John Edwards to helping secure convictions against a range of state political figures. Now the 54-year-old, who has worked for the FBI since 1985, is retiring this month and will take his investigative…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com What turned into the largest mass arrests of L.A. County sheriff’s officials in decades began with a single letter from a jail inmate, the Los Angeles Times reports. FBI Agent Leah Marx testified that the probe began in June 2010 when a county jail inmate detailed a pattern of violence by deputies….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI Director James Comey sought to assure agents and local law enforcement that the bureau plans to increase staff, training and resources in what will be a much less frugal 2014. The Times-Picayune reports that Comey, during his visit to the bureau’s New Orleans Field Office on Thursday, said the beefed-up budget…
