By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com FBI Agents spread out across West Virginia on Tuesday night to question employees of the state Treasurer John Perdue about $1,000 campaign contributions made to his unsuccessful Democratic gubernatorial primary campaign last spring, reports the Charleston Gazette. “A number of individuals are being interviewed this evening,” U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin…
“They haven’t done everything perfectly. They’ve made mistakes. By and large, he has moved the FBI in the right direction.” — Glenn A. Fine, former Justice Dept. Inspector General in Time article on Robert Mueller By Barton Gellman Time FBI Director Bob Mueller glanced at the black chronograph he wears Marine-style, the face inside his…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has fired off a letter to families of the miners who were killed last April at the Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine in Raleigh County, W. Va., saying that “you may be a victim of a federal crime,” the Charleston Gazette reported. The two-page, March 28 letter, signed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The chief of security at the Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia where 29 people died last April in an explosion, was arrested Monday for obstructing the investigation into the disaster by allegedly lying to the FBI and destroying documents. The Justice Department said Elbert Stover, 60, of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Before a massive crowd at the Simpson Baptist Church in Bridgeport, W. Va., Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. on Monday offered condolences at the funeral of slain Deputy U.S. Marshal Derek Hotsinpiller. “At just 24-years-old, Derek had become an important part of the Marshals Service team – and a proud member…
By Jerry Markon Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — The shooting deaths of two federal agents last week and three in two months highlight the heightened risk to federal investigators who are confronting increasingly violent fugitives, drug traffickers and other criminals, authorities said. The killing of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Mexico…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A deputy U.S. Marshal killed Wednesday while trying to serve a warrant in West Virginia has been identified as Derek Hotsinpiller, 24, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page. He had been a deputy Marshal for just over a year. Two other deputy Marshals were shot, but suffered non-life threatening wounds,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former Detroit City Council member Monica Conyers, the corrupt wife of Rep. John Conyers, who is serving time in a West Virginia federal prison, is appealing a ruling by the sentencing judge, who refused to let her withdraw her guilty plea before sentencing, the Detroit News reports. Her lawyer claims in…
