httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9dZ0GK2pfg WEEKEND STORIES OF INTEREST Tip Yields Arrest in East Coast Rapist Case (Washington Post) SEC IG Investigating SEC Response to Madoff Case (Washington Post) Feds Add Charges in Arizona Shooting; Death Penalty May be in Play (Politics Daily) Relatives of Missing ex-FBI Agent Robert Levinson Thrilled He’s Alive (NY Daily News) Mob Wars Return…
By Justin Blum Bloomberg Derek Williams was working as a trash-truck driver when his cousin told him about K2, a product made from plant materials and chemicals that provided a legal, marijuana-like high. Williams saw his ticket out of the residential rubbish business: Make a better blend. He studied compounds that mimic the effects of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A team of investigators has cleared an FBI agent of any wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of a veteran last May 19 at the MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla. In a press release, the FBI stated that the agent, whose name was not released “operated within the scope of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A slice of history in Washington that included FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III is gone. The Friendship Barbershop at Wisconsin Avenue NW and Newark Street, where Mueller got his haircuts — shut down Feb. 26 to make room for a redevelopment project, according to WTOP radio. Not to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A variety of federal agent voiced “anguished objections” over an ATF operation that allowed guns to be smuggled in Mexico so they could be traced to the top levels of the drug cartels, the Los Angeles Times reports. The paper reported that the operation known as “Operation Fast and Furious” lost…
