By Allan Lengel For Sphere.com (A New AOL news site) WASHINGTON — It didn’t take long. Less than 48 hours after the Haiti earthquake, the FBI is probing suspected charitable scams. Paul E. Bresson, an FBI spokesman, said investigators have begun looking into a “small number at this point, predominantly unsolicited e-mails” masquerading as legitimate…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Could life in the cave, life on the run, be aging America’s most wanted fugitive Osama bin Laden? The FBI and State Department released digitally aged photos of bin Laden with and without a headdress. “These new images are powerful examples of how advances in technology and science can…
EXPERIENCED ATTORNEY (GS-905-15) DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ATTACHE – ROME, ITALY OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (OIA) CRIMINAL DIVISION U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WASHINGTON, DC VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT NUMBER: 10-CRM-DET-004 Closing Date: February 4, 2010 About the Position: The United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Office of International Affairs (OIA) is seeking an experienced attorney to be…
Gilbert Arenas By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. Attorney’s Office on Thursday charged troubled Washington Wizard star Gilbert Arenas with a felony for carrying a pistol without a license. The charge, which came in the form of a “criminal information” in D.C. Superior Court, the city’s criminal court, normally is an indication that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com A Mississippi FBI agent was indicted Thursday on charges of making false statements and failing to disclose a conflict of interest in an FBI building he had a financial interest in. The indictment alleges that FBI agent Philip Halbert Neilson, 49, of Oxford, Miss., beginning in 2001 took an active role…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Andy Warhol might have been jealous of this pop art — but not the criminal charges that have accompanied it. Colorado artist Jason Kay has been charged in federal court in Denver with tampering with the Gatorade sports drink after he allegedly “replaced the labels on 100 Gatorade bottles with a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The feds in Los Angeles have busted three men in a suspected scheme to smuggle industrial components into Iran that could have been used to develop nuclear weapons, authorities announced Wednesday. Iran’s development of nuclear weapons has been an ongoing concern of the U.S., Israel and many European nations….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Is suspended Washington Wizards hoop star Gilbert Arenas ready to roll over and cop a gun-related plea? The Washington Post reports that that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C. and Arenas’ attorneys, who include former U.S. Attorney Kenneth Wainstein, have been in plea talks, and that Arenas could be…
