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FBI Continues Insider Trading Investigations Using Stable of Informants
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com There’s apparently no shortage of snitches on Wall Street. The FBI said Monday that it plans to continue investigating alleged insider trading using its current “stable of informants” for the next five years, reports ValueWalk.com. The FBI has been running “Perfect Hedge” since 2009, an operation that has resulted in charges…
FBI Changes Mind; Will Keep La Crosse, Wisc. Office Open
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has backed off a little on its plans and will keep open its La Crosse, Wisc. office, U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl announced Tuesday. Kohl had been fighting to get the FBI’s plan to close half of its office in the western district of Wisconsin. The original plan called for…
Ex-Detroit Treasurer Indicted for Taking Bribes in Case that Cost Pension Funds $84 Million
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — In this cash-strapped city on the brink of financial collapse, seeing public corruption run wild is tough. On Tuesday, the feds struck back, indicting the city’s former treasurer Jeffrey Beasley for taking bribes and kickbacks in return for approving more than $200 million in investments for two city of…
Mich. Sen. Office Receives Letter with White Powder
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI announced on Monday that US Senator Carl Levin’s downtown Detroit office was evacuated after an employee came across a letter filled with a “suspicious white powder,” reports the Detroit News. The powder was later determined to be harmless. Levin’s office, located in the McNamara Federal Building, has since been…
Perrye Turner to Head FBI’s Louisville Office
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI’s Louisville office has a new person in charge. The FBI announced Monday that Perrye K. Turner will head up the office as special agent in charge. Turner most recently served as deputy assistant director of the Information Technology Engineering Division at FBI Headquarters, the agency said. Turner started with…
Michael Douglas Helping FBI Fight Insider Trading
By BEN PROTESS and AZAM AHMED New York Times Gordon Gekko is cooperating with the F.B.I. No, there’s not another big-budget Oliver Stone follow-up to “Wall Street” in the works. Instead, Michael Douglas, who played the financier in the 1987 movie and the sequel, is now starring in a straight-to-television video for the Federal Bureau…
DEA Agent Critical of Columnist’s Assertions on Penn State Scandal; Columnist Responds
Charles Lutz is a retired DEA agent and Penn State University alum. His column is in response to a ticklethewire.com column by Ross Parker’s entitled: A Letter to My Son on Moral Decisions in Light of Penn State. By Charles Lutz For ticklethewire.com While I don’t disagree with Ross Parker’s advice to his son…
FBI Busts Sheriff on Conspiracy, Obstruction Charges
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A Louisiana Sheriff was arrested on conspiracy, computer fraud, identity theft and obstruction charges, the FBI announced in a statement. Sheriff Royce Edward Toney, 64, of Monroe, La., was arrested on Friday, according to the FBI. The indictment alleges that Toney and another man engaged in a conspiracy to illegally track…