By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The irony is never lost when a former IRS agent gets busted for cheating on taxes. Ex-agent John Venuti,62, of Harwood, Md., pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to failing to file federal income tax returns from 2001 to 2006. He owed $789,629 in back taxes. Authorities said…
By Allan lengel ticklethewire.com There are mailboxes. And then there are mailboxes that belong to federal prosecutors. As for the latter, those mailboxes get special attention. The Palm Beach Post reports that the FBI, ATF and U.S. Postal Service are investigating a firework on Sunday that triggered a fire in the mailbox of an assistant…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Back in 2008, Colombo mobster Michael “Mickey” Souza had had enough, according to the New York Daily News. He was facing up to 30 years in prison on drug charges. He wanted to start singing to the feds. ” ‘Hello, John,’ ” he wrote to John Buretta, the chief of the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The lawyer for seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has sent off a letter to a Los Angeles federal prosecutor complaining about leaks in a grand jury probe into possible doping conspiracies involving Armstrong’s team, the Associated Press reported. Lawyer Tim Herman wrote federal prosecutor Doug Miller of the L.A….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– In hopes of learning their identities, the FBI and and Uganda authorities have released photos of two suspected suicide bombers who helped kill more than 70 people on July 11 in the Uganda capital of Kampala. The Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab has taken responsibility for the attacks at different…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — As the drug cartels spin out of control in Mexico, the Obama administration announced Monday that it intends to proceed with plans to deploy 1,200 National Guard troops, starting Aug. 1, to help protect the border, CNN reported. Additionally, 300 Customs and Border Protection agents will be added along…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI and ATF have joined the probe in Mexico into a July 15 car bomb in the border town of Juarez that killed three people, the El Paso Times reported. The bomb, made of C-4 plastic, was detonated by cell phone. It was the first time drug cartels had used…
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