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Boston Globe Editorial Says FBI Guilty of “Red-Baiting at its Worst”
By The Boston Globe Editorial GREENPEACE, THE Catholic Worker, the Thomas Merton Center — none of these groups had the remotest connection to 9/11 or terrorism. And the FBI had no business investigating them — with no evidence other than a suspicion of left-wing organizations in wartime. This was shameful red-baiting at its worst. The…
Ex-Disney Assistant Pleads Guilty to Insider Trading Scheme
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An assistant to a top executive at the Walt Disney Company pleaded guilty Tuesday in Manhattan U.S. District Court to partaking in an insider trading scheme. Bonnie J. Hoxie, 34, of Los Angeles, admitted that she along with her boyfriend Yonni Sebbag of Morocco obtained confidential inside information, including Disney’s quarterly…
George Venizelos to Head Up Philly FBI Office
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — George Venizelos will take over the FBI’s Philadelphia office, replacing Janice Fedarcyk who recently took over the New York FBI Office, the FBI announced Tuesday. Venizelos is the special agent in charge of the Administrative Division for the FBI’s New York Division and temporarily filled in for a while…
Justice Dept. Wants Appeals Court to Reconsider Warrantless GPS Issue
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The issue of law enforcement using warrantless GPS is still simmering. The latest: The Justice Department on Monday asked the full U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. to overturn a ruling by a three-judge panel, which said law enforcement must get a warrant when using a GPS to track…
IG Says FBI Misled Public and Congress About Surveilling Anti-War Rally in 2002
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI including the director gave inaccurate and misleading statements to Congress and the public about reasons why an agent conducted surveillance at an anti-war rally in 2002 at the Thomas Merton Center in Pittsburgh, according a report by the Justice Department’s Inspector General. The report concluded that the…
Rumor Mill Churns: Who Will Head up FBI’s Washington Field Office?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The rumor mill is churning out names of possible replacements for Shawn Henry, the head of the FBI Washington field office, who has just been named to the number four spot at headquarters. Some of the names include Kevin Perkins, assistant director of the Criminal Investigative Division at headquarters; …
Drug Dealer Laughed When He Found Out Wife Shot Pittsburgh FBI Agent Sam Hicks
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A drug dealer whose wife shot and killed Pittsburgh FBI agent Sam Hicks in 2008 during an FBI raid at their home laughed when he learned the agent had been shot, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said, according to a report in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. As a result of that and his…
Indiana FBI Evidence Tech Accused of Stealing Tens of Thousands of $$
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com FBI evidence control technician Melissa L. Sims found a nifty way to take home some extra cash from work: She stole it, the feds say. The Post-Tribune reported that FBI employee Melissa L. Sims is charged with stealing between 30,000 to $80,000 from the FBI’s Merrillville, Ind. office evidence room. The…