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Mi. Atty. Gen. Says FBI Did Not Violate Law in Fatally Shooting of Imam
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Michigan Attorney General said the FBI violated no state laws when it fatally shot a Detroit mosque leader Luqman Ameen Abdullah during a raid of a suburban warehouse last October, the Detroit News reported. “My office’s review found undisputed evidence that Mr. Abdullah resisted arrest and fired a gun first…
FBI Joins LAPD to Solve 27 Murders in 3 Months
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI teamed up with the police department to help solve 27 murders in the past three months, the Los Angeles Times reports. The paper reports that under the joint effort, which began July 1, the FBI provided six agents, equipment, crime lab help and money to pay for LAPD detectives’…
FBI Investigating ex-President Andy Stern of SEIU Union; Stern Says Reports Not True
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Andy Stern, the contentious man who headed the 2.2 million member Service Employees International Union, is under investigation by the FBI and the U.S. Labor Department, the Associated Press reports. AP reports that two organized labor officials were interviewed this summer by federal agents about a six-figure book contract…
Whistleblower Trial Highlights FBI’s Change After 9-11
By Spencer Hsu The Washington Post WASHINGTON — An FBI whistleblower trial has cast a spotlight on the bureau’s difficult transition from a crime-fighting agency into a counterterrorism and intelligence force, as seen through the career of its highest-ranking Arab American agent. Over a two-week trial in Washington, a federal jury heard for the first…
Louisiana Man Allegedly Ties Noose Around Racoon’s Neck to Intimidate African-American Students
By Glynnesha Taylor ticklethewire.com A Louisiana man faces federal hate crime charges for allegedly tying a noose around the neck of a dead raccoon and hanging it from a flagpole at a middle school to intimidate African-American students who were attending the school under a court-ordered busing policy. Authorities on Monday announced that Christopher Shane…
FBI’s Joe Persichini Lands Job with D.C. Police Foundation
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Joseph Persichini Jr., who headed the FBI’s Washington Field Office until he retired last Christmas, is now the executive director of the Washington D.C. Police Foundation, the Washington Examiner reported. Persichini left the FBI under a cloud after he and two other top officials in the office were investigated…