Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Head of the FBI’s Milwaukee office, Teresa Carlson, is temporarily working at the Facilities and Logistics Services Division at headquarters in Washington D.C. while authorities investigate claims that she pressured a subordinate to commit perjury, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Still, Carlson remains the special agent in charge of the Milwaukee office,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The demolition of the Hoover Building would create $28 million in additional tax revenue for Washington D.C. and provide much needed aesthetic relief for people who have to see the hulking building every day, the Washington Post wrote in an editorial today. The move to another building also makes sense regionally, the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Washington D.C. has a lot to lose – and gain – if the FBI moves its longtime headquarters to the suburbs. If the bureau moves from Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 4,800 jobs would go with it, the Washington Post reports. But redevelopment of the site could generate an additional $28 million, the Post reported,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Michael Steinbach was supposed to be the temporary head of the FBI in Miami while the bureau searched for a permanent special agent in charge. But the 46-year-old who has fought violent crime and terrorism impressed Washington D.C. so much that he received the permanent job, the Miami Herald reports. “I never…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray plans to propose that federal authorities relocate the FBI headquarters from its outdated building to another part of the capitol, the Washington Post reports. Sources told the Post that Gray wants feds to move headquarters from Pennsylvania Avenue NW to Poplar Point, between Interstate 295 and the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and U.S. Capitol Police are investigating rape and death against U.S. Rep. Todd Akins, his staff and his family, Reuters reports. A spokesman for the Missouri Republican confirmed the investigation. “There have been threats of rape of staff, (of) the congressman’s family and the congressman himself, and suggestions that people…
By Del Quentin WIlber and Keith L. Alexander Washington Post When federal authorities began to investigate allegations of corruption involving prominent D.C. politicians and their campaigns last year, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. took a keen interest in the probes. Machen, the District’s top prosecutor, prodded his staff to work through weekends, demanded regular…
