By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com He’s back. Ex-Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich — a man who never saw a microphone he didn’t like — has filed a pretrial motion seeking what he says is missing evidence including records of a phone call between Blagojevich aide John Harris and then White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The lion’s share of Secret Service agents on protective details go an entire career without getting shot. Then there’s one of the Secret Service agents who protects Nancy Reagan. The Associated Press reports that the agent accidentally shot himself in the hip Friday at the Ventura County, Calif. Sheriff’s Department shooting…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Boston FBI agent John Connolly, who authorities say stepped way over the line in his relationship with the mob, is appealing his 2008 second-degree murder conviction in the 1982 mob-related slaying of a gambling executive in Miami, the Associated Press reports. AP reported that the Florida Court of Appeals will hear…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — C. Frank Figliuzzi, deputy assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division at headquarters, gets a bump up to the assistant director spot. “Frank is a seasoned investigator and an experienced manager, and he knows the threats the FBI and our country face,” FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III said…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News The Church of Scientology, which boasts such members as Tom Cruise and John Travolta, is once again steeped in controversy, thanks to a magazine article that cites numerous allegations of abusive behavior and gross misconduct. Author Lawrence Wright writes in The New Yorker magazine that ex-members told him of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Iran’s elite military force, the Revolutionary Guards, is denying a report generated by WikiLeaks documents that suggested it was holding, or had held, former FBI agent Robert Levinson, Agence France-Presse reported . “We deny the arrest of the FBI agent and if the Guards had arrested an enemy, it would announce…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — After a long drawn out battle that lasted nearly 10 years, more than 40,000 airport screeners have been given limited collective bargaining rights, Fox News reported. The station reported that the Transportation Security Administration on Friday granted the right. Under the provision, screeners would still be barred from striking…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Two of three Philly cops busted in an undercover DEA sting last summer are expected to plead guilty Monday, the Philadelphia Daily News reported. Cops Robert Snyder, 30, of South Philadelphia, and James Venziale, 32, of the Far Northeast, are scheduled to enter pleas before U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle III,…
