By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Nearly everyone in the FBI can agree they were caught off guard by President Obama’s announcement Thursday that he would seek to have FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III stay on for two more years beyond his 10-year term. What they all don’t agree on is whether it’s a…
By Allan Lengel For The Daily A 67-year-old federal judge jailed after a crime spree involving drugs, guns and a prostitute was freed on May 9 after serving just three weeks. Judge Jack T. Camp, Jr, a Ronald Reagan appointee, agreed to a plea deal, but many in the legal community believe Camp got off…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Friction is mounting between the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and New York police. Radio station WNYC reports that the FBI’s JTTF chose not to get involved in a case involving two New York men allegedly involved in a plot to blow up a local synagogue because it was problematic, was…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sen. John Ensign (R-Nevada) recent resignation may not be enough to keep him out of trouble. The Washington Post reports that the Senate ethics committee on Thursday took the rare step of referring to federal investigators “substantial and credible evidence” of criminal violations that centered around his effort to cover up…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If you’ve got some extra doe, and you’re in to collecting things relating to legendary crime history, the U.S. Marshals Service has a deal for you. The service is auctioning off the belongings of “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, swindler Bernie Madoff and crooked Democratic Party financier Hassan Nemazee. CNN reports that the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Nine members of New York’s Gambino Crime family, ranging from ages from 25 to 70, were sentenced in recent days in Manhattan federal court as part of a wide sweeping indictment that included charges of racketeering, murder, conspiracy, extortion and sex trafficking, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. “The successful prosecutions of…
