By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is searching for a Northeastern University graduate who is accused of trying to recruit ISIS members using social media, WHDH reports. Ahmad Abousamra, who is believed to be in Syria, has been added to the FBI’s met wanted terrorist list. Authorities fear Abousamra may be waging an aggressive social…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI special agent and his wife admitted they hid income from the IRS. Pritesh Desai, 47, and his wife Darshna Desai, 45, both of Watchung, N.J., pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of conspiring to defraud the IRS in federal court in Trenton, NJ.com reports. The couple is accused of…
By St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Board A few numbers indicate a civil rights investigation of the Ferguson Police Department is long overdue. On Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced the Department of Justice will begin such an inquiry. This is an important and positive step forward, but we suspect when he gets into the numbers,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a tense encounter between the U.S. Border Patrol and an armed militia man, the Valley Morning Star reports. An agent is accused of firing several shorts at what turned out to be a militia member on private property. The incident happened while Border Patrol agents were chasing…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Former Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell, who had been mentioned as a vice presidential candidate at one time, was convicted Thursday in U.S. District Court in Richmond, Va., along with his wife Maureen, of public corruption and selling the office to a free spending Richmond businessman for golf outings, lavish vacations…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Colombian national pleaded guilty in the slaying of DEA Agent James “Terry” Watson, who was stabbed to death in Columbia, the Associated Press reports. Julio Estiven Garcia Ramiez, one of seven Colombians extradited to the U.S. for charges connected to the murder of the 43-year-old agent, pleaded guilty Wednesday to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI agent Joshua Skule has been named special agent in charge of the FBI’s Intelligence Division at the Washington Field Office (WFO). He most recently served as a deputy assistant director (DAD) in the Counterterrorism Division (CTD) at FBI headquarters. Skule began his career as a special agent with the FBI…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Wall Street won’t be sad to see Tony West go. The highest-ranking prosecutor who gained more than $30 billion in settlements from Wall Street banks plans to leave the public sector, the New York Times reports. West, who is the No. 3 Justice Department officials, plans to leave Sept. 15. The…
