By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – A 29-year-old special agent with the D.C. Inspector General’s Office collapsed and died Wednesday in suburban Virginia while taking a FBI physical stress test to become an agent, according to sources familiar with the incident. Lloyd Hodge, who had been an investigator with the D.C. Inspector General’s Office for…
This project could be tied up for quite some time as the government deals with land acquisitions from private property owners. With all the hurdles, it won’t be easy to complete. By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press Writer BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Nearly six months after the U.S.-Mexico border fence ordered by the Bush administration was supposed…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Let’s face it, Harold Goldstein of Newport Beach, Calif., really really loved being an attorney. Really. One big problem: He didn’t have a law degree. In May, he was sprung from prison after serving time for posing as an attorney. Last Sunday, the FBI arrested the 64-year-old man at his home…
This is a rather large field of candidates. All around the country, people are jockeying for U.S. Attorney posts, politicking and making phone calls to try and get the edge. By Robbyn Mitchell St. Petersburg Times TAMPA — A politician, a professor, a former police officer and former federal prosecutors have all applied to replace…
A widow whose husband, a Boston nightclub owner, was killed by mobsters wants the government to pay for her husband’s death. She says in a lawsuit that the FBI failed to take action against the mobsters, who were working as FBI informants. A federal judge has already ruled in her favor. Now another federal judge…
