Sean Joyce Named Assist. Dir. of FBI’s International Operations Division
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Sean Joyce, a Boston native, is the new assistant director of the FBI’s International Operations Division. He replaces Tom Fuentes, who retired. “The International Operations Division’s scope of responsibilities is greater than ever, given the importance that relationships with international law enforcement partners and other parts of the government…
ATF Initiative Helps Crack Down on Guns to Mexican Drug Cartels
This is a good good initiative. We just need more of these because the violent Mexican drug cartels aren’t going away, not so long as business remains brisk. By Juan A. Lozano Associated Press Writer HOUSTON- A four-month effort to stop the flow of firearms from the U.S. to Mexican drug cartels has helped law…
Shape Up! TSA to Install 150 Machines at Airports that See Through Clothing
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON— Ok, here’s another reason to stay in shape and stop hiding behind those baggy clothes. More airport screeners are about to acquire Superman powers. USA Today reports that Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration plans to install 150 security machines at airport checkpoints that will let screeners peek under passengers’ clothes….
Secret Service Says Kid Posted Obama Assassination Poll on Facebook
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The person who posted a poll on the ever-popular Facebook social network last week asking whether President Obama should be assassinated is a kid. Bloomberg news reports that the Secret Service determined that the juvenile doesn’t pose a threat. The news service, attributing the information to Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan,…
Louisiana Judge Pleads Guilty in Fed Court To Taking Bribes in Scheme to Release Inmates Without Bond
Anytime a judge gets busted for taking a bribe it reminds us how vulnerable the legal system is. It also makes us wonder about other judges. By Chris Kirkham New Orleans Times-Picayune NEW ORLEANS — A longtime St. Bernard Parish judge who handled some of the parish’s most high-profile civil lawsuits pleaded guilty Thursday in…
FBI Seizes Well-Traveled Fake Andrew Wyeth Painting
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If only this were our biggest crime problem in America. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the FBI seized “a well-traveled forgery of a 1939 Andrew Wyeth watercolor, the fourth such counterfeit painting to surface since the artist’s death in January.” Art fraud is a multi-billion dollar industry. The paper reported that…
NY Feds Bust Gambling Operation Run by Luchese Crime Family
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In the gambling world there are lucky days and not so lucky days. Thursday was a “not so lucky day” for suspected members and associates of the Luchese crime family in New York who were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of running an illegal gambling, sports betting and…