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Some Criminal Politicians Are Disgraceful til the End
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some criminal politicians are disgraceful right up to the end. Take former Massachusetts State Senator Dianne Wilkerson who was sentenced Thursday in Boston federal court to 3 1/2 years in prison for taking $23,000 in bribes to help secure a liquor license for a nightclub and for legislation to grease the…
FBI’s Randall Thysse Named SAC for NY Counterintelligence
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Randall C. Thysse of the FBI’s global counterintelligence section at headquarters has been named special agent in charge of the New York Office’s Counterintelligence Division. Thysse joined the FBI in 1989 and was first stationed in the Omaha Division’s Des Moines Resident Agency. He later went to headquarters as…
Column: Some Criminal Politicians are Disgraceful til the End
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some criminal politicians are disgraceful right up to the end. Take former Massachusetts State Senator Dianne Wilkerson who was sentenced Thursday in Boston federal court to 3 1/2 years in prison for taking $23,000 in bribes to help secure a liquor license for a nightclub and for legislation to grease the…
FBI Probing Death of Mexican Teen Shot By Border Patrol Agent
By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com The FBI is investigating the death of a Mexican teen who died Wednesday in a shooting involving a U.S. border patrol agent in Nogales along the Arizona-Mexico border, Reuters reported. The Sonora, Mexican police said Ramses Barron, 17, was found dead outside a hospital in Nogales, Sonora on Wednesday with a…
OUCH! Armed Pa. Man Under Investigation Bites 2 FBI Agents and Draws Blood
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Authorities say a Pennsylvania man carrying a loaded gun bit two FBI agents who tried to restrain him outside a fast food restaurant after he appeared to be reaching for his weapon, the Associated Press reported. The agents arrested Emerson Begolly, 21, in New Bethlehem, Pa., outside of Pittsburgh, on Tuesday,…
FBI Dir. Mueller Defends Terrorist Stings at Opening of Crime Lab in Calif.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In response to a string of FBI stings around the country involving terrorist suspects, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III on Wednesday defended the tactic, calling it “absolutely essential” to public safety, according to the Associated Press. “We have been tremendously successful in thwarting attacks,” Mueller said at a news conference…
Chicago Fed Jury Convicts White Supremacist Who Advocated Violence Against a Juror
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A self-proclaimed white-supremacist was convicted Wednesday in Chicago federal court of soliciting violence against a Jewish jury foreman who helped convict another white-supremacist, Matthew Hale in 2004. William A. White, 33, of Roanoke, Va., was convicted of one count of solicitation, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. White was charged with advocating…