Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI agent who filed a $2.2 million federal lawsuit against the FBI claiming retaliation and racial discrimination lost her case, WFMJ-NBC reports. U.S. District Judge Benita Pearson dismissed the case, saying the former agent, Sheila Lawson, never made herself available for depositions. Lawson, who worked for the FBI between 2002…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former college professor who was working as an FBI informant investigating mortgage fraud was sentenced to four years and four months in prison Thursdsay for hatching his own mortgage fraud scheme, The Plain Dealer reports. Paul Tomko asked for leniency but got none from U.S. District Judge Christopher Boyko. Tomko pleaded…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Embezzling $1,800 from the DEA will cost a former employee one year of probation and 50 hours of community service, the Tribune-Review reports. U.S. District Judge Donetta Ambrose delivered the sentenced Monday to Holly Cook, 43, of Monongahela, Pa. Cook pleaded guilty in May to taking $1,800 from a locked cash box…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Former FBI Director Louis Freeh was appointed by federal judges to investigate a court-supervised administrator of BP’s multibillion-dollar settlement, the Associated Press reports. Freeh, a private consultant, was named a “special master” by U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier. Freeh is to investigate whether an attorney on the staff of claims administrator, Patrick…
