Good News for the Feds; Bad News for Detroit’s Ex-“Hip Hop Mayor” Kwame Kilpatrick

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Good news for the feds. Bad news for Kwame Kilpatrick, the  ex- “hip hop mayor” of Detroit, who is eye-brow deep in legal trouble. Derrick Miller, 41, a Kilpatrick confidante who worked as the city’s Chief Administrative Officer, pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to corruption and tax charges and agreed…

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Coke Kingpin Charged in Miami; Considered Among Colombia’s Most Wanted

By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The feds in Miami are taking aim at some big guys in the drug world. Authorities filed charges against  Daniel Barrera-Barrera, an international drug smuggler with alleged ties to terrorist groups in Columbia, reports the Miami Herald. The report calls Barrera-Barrera, 42, one of Columbia’s most-wanted, and says he “maintains a partnership with…

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Ex-Acting Genovese Family Crime Boss and Two Associates Sentenced to Life

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The former acting boss of the Genovese Organized Crime Family Arthur Nigro and two associates were sentenced to life in prison Monday in Manhattan federal court for multiple crimes including racketeering, extortion and loansharking and murders of people they suspected of snitching to authorities, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Nigro and…

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Mark F. Giuliano Named FBI’s Exec. Assist. Director of National Security Branch

   By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mark F. Giuliano, the assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division at FBI headquarters, has been named the agency’s executive assistant director of the National Security Branch, the FBI announced Monday. “I am confident that under Mark’s leadership in managing international and domestic counterterrorism investigations, NSB will continue its strategic…

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FBI Efforts to Foster Better Relations With Islamic Community Still Hits Bumps

 By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ten years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the FBI efforts to strengthen the bonds with the Islamic American community haven’t always gone smoothly. The latest of example of that came Saturday in Seattle when the the FBI, Seattle Police and U.S. Attorney’s Office participated in an outreach workshop Saturday with Seattle’s…

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ticklethewire.com Salutes Federal Law Enforcement in Its Battle Against Terrorism and Honors Those Who Died on Sept. 11, 2001

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com I still remember walking down Connecticut Avenue in Washington, headed to the subway, when I ran into a friend who told me that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. About 20 minutes later, when I got off the subway downtown at the Farragut North stop, I bumped into…

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