April Brooks Named Head of Criminal Division in NY

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com April Brooks, whose career  included investigations into  children-related crimes  and the mysterious death of a Baltimore federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna in 2003, has been named special agent in charge of the Criminal Division in the FBI’s very busy New York Division. Brooks, special assistant to the executive assistant director of the…

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Feds Reduce Size of Immigration Unit in Arizona

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has withdrawn some agents from Phoenix just as local police prepare to enforce Arizona’s new immigration law, The Associated Press reports. The federal agents were responsible for identifying and deporting illegal immigrants. To round up immigrants in other states, ICE began reassigning members of the Phoenix…

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Justice Department Building Case Against Financial Institutions

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. Justice Department is investigating several financial institutions and their employees over the manipulation of interest rates, Reuters reports. Traders at Barclays Plc are among the institutions under investigation related to how banks set the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, Reuters reported, citing sources who spoke on condition of anonymity….

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Former ICE Official Gets 20 Months in Prison

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  A former federal immigration intelligence director was sentenced to 20 months in prison Friday after getting four subordinates to fraudulently claim more than $500,000 in false expense and pay claims, Reuters reports. James M. Woosley, 48, the former acting director of the intelligence office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, pleaded guilty…

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Penn State Cover Up is Lesson for Institutions Including Fed Law Enforcement

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There’s a lesson to be learned from the Jerry Sandusky-Penn State child sexual abuse scandal for institutions, including federal law enforcement agencies. The main lesson is that institutions aren’t more important than people. We’ve seen this play out so many times before. Institutions protecting their image, avoiding disgrace. We’ve seen it…

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Now More Than Ever I Believe Bo Schembechler Would Have Done Right Thing in Penn State Scandal

By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com Last November I wrote a column about how I thought legendary Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler would have handled the Penn State scandal. Since then Joe Paterno was fired and subsequently died from cancer. Jerry Sandusky was convicted of 46 of 48 counts of sexual child abuse involving 10 boys. Now…

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