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Fed Judge Says Govt. Doesn’t Have to Pay for FBI Agent Smashing Up $750,000 Ferrari
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — Having immunity has its benefits. U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn of Detroit has dismissed a lawsuit by a suburban Detroit insurance company that was trying to get the government to pay up after an FBI agent smashed up a stolen $750,000, 1995 F50 Ferrari that was in government custody,…
Shame on the Justice Dept. For Screwing Families in Boston Murder Cases
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. Justice Department can feel proud that an appeals court Thursday essentially upheld its right to screw the families whose relatives were allegedly murdered by Boston gangster James J. “Whitey’’ Bulger. Bulger was working as an FBI informant and running wild, and a Boston federal judge back in…
It’s Out: Whitey Bulger Tipster is Former Miss Iceland
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The former Miss Iceland Anna Bjornsdottir was splitting her time between Iceland and Santa Monica, Calif. when, at home in Iceland, she saw a photo of her Santa Monica neighbors, Carole and Charlie Gasko, flash across the TV screen, according to CBS Boston. The Gaskos’ were actually mob boss Whitey Bulger…
Miami Fed Juror Charged With Soliciting Bribe During Trial
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Italo Campagna was serving as a juror in Miami an ongoing federal criminal trial when he slipped the defendant’s father a piece of paper outside the courthouse with a telephone number on it. Later that afternoon, Campagna, 55, met with the defendant’s brother, who had contacted him, and arranged to meet…
FBI Unveils New Facial Recognition System
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Prepare yourselves for a protracted battle between privacy rights advocates and the FBI this winter. FBI officials told the website NextGov by January they will activate a nationwide facial recognition service, allowing local police in select states to identify unknown subjects in photos. The Feds are embarking on “a multiyear, $1 billion…
Rep. Issa Says More Subpoenas Coming in Fast and Furious
OTHER STORIES OF INTEREST Merchant of Death’s Trial Begins This Week (AP) Calif. Sheriff Announces Changes at Jail After Word Surfaces of FBI Probe (LA Times) Editorial: U.S. Attorneys Should Back off Medical Marijuana Dispensaries (Seattle Times) FBI’s Use of Alleged Mobster Challenged (Boston Globe) FBI Plans New Mexico Search in Serial Killing (ABC) Cyber…
As Release Date Nears, More is Being Released on the Movie “J. Edgar”
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com As the November release date of the controversial movie about FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover nears, the studio is releasing more material on the matter. Recently, the studio released a trailer. And now a poster of the movie is circulating (to the right). The movie, which reportedly has a national release…
FBI Helps Recover Stolen Civil War Flag Missing for Almost 30 Years
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Missing for almost three decades, a civil-war battle flag stolen in the 1980s by a volunteer at the Memorial Hall Museum (Confederate Memorial Hall) of New Orleans, has been recovered, the FBI announced this week. The FBI said the Art Crime Team in the FBI Miami Division initially got some information and…