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Weekend Series on Crime: An Oldier But Goodie: FBI Agent Goes Undercover in the Mob as Jack Falcone
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NY FBI Agent Charged With Trying to Derail Fraud Probe into Business Partner
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An FBI agent was charged with using his position to try and derail a federal probe into a business partner, the Justice Department announced. A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City on Thursday charged FBI special agent Robert G. Lustyik Jr., 50, of Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.; Michael L. Taylor, 51,…
Former FBI Agent Indicted on Charges of Trying to Derail a Federal Investigation into Defense Contracts
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI agent, along with a defense contractor, was indicted Thursday for participating in what authorities say was a multimillion-dollar scheme to win military contracts in Afghanistan, the Associated Press reports. An FBI special agent assigned to counterintelligence work until September 2011, Robert G. Lustyik, 50, is accused of using his…
Head of FBI’s Washington D.C. Office Announces Retirement, Leaving Void in Counterterrorism Expertise
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com James W. McJunkin, the head of the FBI’s Washington field office, announced his retirement Thursday after just two years on the job. Authorities said the retirement is a blow to counterterrorism efforts because McJunkin had a plethora of experience in foiling and investigating terrorist plots, the Washington Post reports. McJunkin is a…
FBI Informant Who Helped FBI in Unprecedented Sting Sentenced to Six Years in Prison
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Solomon Dwek, the informant behind the largest FBI sting operation in New Jersey history, was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison in an unrelated scheme, the Star-Ledger reports. Dwek was facing up to 11 years but received a sentence reduction in exchange for helping in “one of the most far-reaching, and…
Minneapolis Man Convicted of Sending Young Recruits to Somali Terrorist Group
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Minneapolis man accused of conspiring to send Americans to a terrorist group, al-Shabab, in Somalia was convicted on five terrorism-related counts Thursday, the Associated Press reports. Mahamud Said Omar, 46, faces up to life in prison for funding al-Shabab and sending young recruits to Somalia once they were indoctrinated in Minneapolis….
FBI Arrests Man Accused of Being an Accomplice in Federal Reserve Bank Bombing Plot
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Bangladeshi man accused of trying to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank of New York with what he believed was a real bomb didn’t act alone, authorities said, The New York Times reports. Described as an accomplice, Howard Willie Carter II, was arrested Wednesday after an FBI agent discovered child pornography…
Were FBI Agent’s Texts Intentionally Destroyed in Gun Trafficking Sting in Philippines?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The question is: Were the text messages sent by an undercover FBI agent to defendants in an 18-month gun trafficking sting in the Philippines destroyed by the government or was there merely a technical glitch that prevented them from being saved? Deputy Federal Defender John Littrell suggests in a court document…