Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A new FBI headquarters in Maryland would inject an estimated $2 billion and 11,000 jobs into the economy, the Associated Press reports. Top officials are scheduled to promote moving the FBI office to Prince George’s County. Scheduled to attend are Gov. Martin O’Malley, Rep. Steny Hoyer and Sens. Barbara Mikulski and Ben…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The battle to land the new headquarters of the FBI has turned ugly, NBC 4 Washington reports. In one case, a Fairfax County official took a swipe at Prince George’s County, saying it’s the place where the FBI would be busy because of criminals. “I made that comment in the context of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com Ex-FBI agent Adrian Johnson was sentenced Friday in suburban D.C. to 18 months in prison for the 2011 drunk driving crash that killed one person and seriously injured another, the Washington Post reported. Johnson, 39, who had been assigned to Attorney Gen. Eric Holder’s security detail, was convicted of motor vehicle…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The battle to attract the new FBI headquarters is blossoming. The Examiner reports that Fairfax County Board of Supervisors in Virginia endorsed a site adjacent to the Franconia/Springfield Metro station as a potential new location. The current FBI building in D.C. on Pennsylvania Avenue NW, several blocks from the Capitol, is…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Considering he was once the top prosecutor for a prominent suburban county just outside D.C., Jack B. Johnson was not such a smart crook and shakedown artist. Johnson was arrested by the FBI late last year while in his final weeks in office as county executive of Prince George’s County on…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Here’s a story that has no good ending. An FBI agent as been has been indicted by a D.C. suburban county grand jury in connection with a fatal drunk driving crash that killed an 18-year-old on Feb. 7 in Brandywine, Md., the Washington Examiner reported. Washington Examiner reporter Emily Babay reported that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Here’s a story that has no good ending. An FBI agent as been has been indicted by a D.C. suburban county grand jury in connection with a fatal drunk driving crash that killed an 18-year-old on Feb. 7 in Brandywine, Md., the Washington Examiner reported. Washington Examiner reporter Emily Babay reported…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Jack Johnson, who in his final weeks as a county executive in suburban Washington got busted on a wiretap advising his wife to hide evidence as FBI agents knocked on the door, was indicted Monday on charges of conspiracy, extortion, tampering with a witness and evidence and taking more…
