By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Just released FBI records show the bureau investigated more threats against Sen. Edward M. Kennedy than previously revealed, including one involving the son of the late mobster Al Capone and a plot by Cuban communists, the Boston Globe reported. The paper reported that none of the half-dozen or so newly revealed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – A former office manager for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy could be off to prison. A federal jury in Washington on Tuesday convicted Ngozi T. Pole, 40,of Waldorf, Md., of stealing more than $75,000 by paying himself unauthorized bonuses, the Justice Department said. Specifically, he was convicted of five…
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 ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — FBI files released Monday on the late Sen. Ted Kennedy show that Joseph P. Kennedy, the senator’s father, felt close enough to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to check on a rumor regarding his son. An FBI file dated May 11, 1954, said Kennedy called the bureau and spoke…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – In a rare move, the family of Edward M. Kennedy will be allowed to raise objections before thousand of pages of the late Senator’s FBI file are released, the Boston Globe reports. The paper reports that the the FBI is providing the “uncommon” opportunity so that the privacy rights…
Ulrich Boser, editor of the website The Open Case, could be in for some interesting reading if the FBI doesn’t redact too much. By Ulrich Boser The Open Case What does the FBI have on Ted Kennedy? A lot, apparently. I filed a FOIA to get any documents related to the lion of the Senate…
