By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — FBI agents are supposed to unearth scams, not become victims of them. This time is different. Some 300 retired and current federal agents — representing the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement — collectively invested tens of millions of dollars of retirement money…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ted Dan Gardiner, the undercover witness who helped the feds build a case against more than two dozen people charged with looting American Indian artifacts in the Southwest U.S. , has committed suicide, the Associated Press reported. AP reported that the 52-year-old apparently shot himself Monday in a Salt Lake City…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — When Kentucky Census Bureau worker William E. Sparkman was found dead in September — with the word “FED” scrawled on his chest — everyone assumed the obvious: He was murdered. Not so, state and federal investigators said Tuesday. The Washington Post reported that authorities believe Sparkman committed suicide. He…
Nearly six years ago Baltimore federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna was found face down in a creek with multiple stab wounds in Lancaster Co., Pa. Some think it was a suicide. Others say it was murder. Some say the investigation is active. Others say it’s not. Reporter Jeffrey Anderson looks into the matter.
This sad story, which happened on Thursday, seems reminiscent of the Great Depression: Job losses and suicides. By Del Quentin Wilber and Paul Duggan Washington Post Staff Writers WASHINGTON — A 59-year-old lawyer with an Atlanta-based firm who was about to lose his job because of the economy was found dead in his Washington office…
For a prosecutor who pressures someone to testify, for a reporter who exposes someone’s wrongdoing, the end results can sometimes be deadly. By STEVE VISSER The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ATLANTA — A federal prosecutor drove a woman to suicide by threatening to indict her to get her to incriminate her husband in a massive investigation of…
Don Douglas was just one of the scores of people nationwide facing child pornography charges. The Internet has opened opportunties never seen before. By Jerry Markon Washington Post Staff Writer ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A 40-year-old Springfield man killed himself just hours before he was scheduled to plead guilty in federal court on child pornography charges,…
A tragedy ends with another tragedy. By Clarence Williams and Martin Weil Washington Post Staff Writers WASHINGTON –A 64-year-old Northwest Washington man who was charged with causing the largest wildfire in Minnesota in 90 years apparently shot and killed himself yesterday in his back yard. Stephen G. Posniak, an outdoorsman, retired federal employee and former…
