Atty. Gen. Holder Defends the Way he Handled ATF’s Fast and Furious
Holder Tackles Hot Button Issues Before Congress (Main Justice)
Holder Tackles Hot Button Issues Before Congress (Main Justice)
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — In this cash-strapped city on the brink of financial collapse, seeing public corruption run wild is tough. On Tuesday, the feds struck back, indicting the city’s former treasurer Jeffrey Beasley for taking bribes and kickbacks in return for approving more than $200 million in investments for two city of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com By Bye Blackberry. Daid Saleh Rauf of Politico reports that ATF plans to ditch the Blackberry phone “largely in favor of the iPhone.” “We’re going to delete the BlackBerry from the mix,” Rick Holgate, ATF’s chief information officer, said in an interview, according to Politico. To read more click here.
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI announced on Monday that US Senator Carl Levin’s downtown Detroit office was evacuated after an employee came across a letter filled with a “suspicious white powder,” reports the Detroit News. The powder was later determined to be harmless. Levin’s office, located in the McNamara Federal Building, has since been…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Florida state lawmaker announced his resignation on Friday after admitting that he sent anonymous, flirtatious text messages in 2011 to a married assistant U.S. Attorney, ABC 25 reported. The admission by Fla. House Rep. Richard Steinberg, 39, came after the Secret Service traced the unsolicited texts he sent to assistant…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI’s Louisville office has a new person in charge. The FBI announced Monday that Perrye K. Turner will head up the office as special agent in charge. Turner most recently served as deputy assistant director of the Information Technology Engineering Division at FBI Headquarters, the agency said. Turner started with…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com You know a good way to stay homeless? Try stealing a Secret Service car. UPI reports a homeless man was arrested in Washington on Friday after he tried swiping a Secret Service car that was parked near Sidwell Friends School, an exclusive private school in Upper Northwest Washington that happens to…
By BEN PROTESS and AZAM AHMED New York Times Gordon Gekko is cooperating with the F.B.I. No, there’s not another big-budget Oliver Stone follow-up to “Wall Street” in the works. Instead, Michael Douglas, who played the financier in the 1987 movie and the sequel, is now starring in a straight-to-television video for the Federal Bureau…