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Pulitzer Prize Winners Who Brought Down Detroit Mayor Publish Book of His Famous and Infamous Quotes
By Allan Lengel For AOL News When former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who is the target of an FBI bribery investigation, was re-elected in 2005 in a miraculous comeback, he told his followers, “Some y’all just crazy.” When he came to visit the Detroit Free Press years before his text-message scandal, he said to city…
FBI Appoints Sean Joyce to Key Post as Exec. Assist Dir. of National Security Branch
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Sean Joyce, a Boston native, has been named executive assistant director of the FBI’s National Security Branch (NSB), a key post that oversees a number of divisions including counterterrorism, counterintelligence, Directorate of Intelligence and the Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate. His last post was as assistant director of the…
Authorities Contact Canadian Bookstores About FBI Fugitive Whitey Bulger
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI’s Top Ten Fugitive James “Whitey” Bulger of Boston may be a cold and calculated killer, but apparently he does like literature. The Boston Globe reports authorities last week circulated posters of Bulger, 80, and his girlfriend Catherine Greig, 59, at bookstores around the ocean front city of Victoria in…
Feds Subpoena Sarah Palin in Hacker’s Trial in Tenn.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Republican star Sarah Palin may soon have a speaking engagement, but she won’t be able to collect a lucrative speaking fee as she as on different occasions. The Huffington Post reports that federal prosecutors have subpoenaed her to testify in the trial of former college student David Kernell, 22, in Knoxville,…
Senior ICE Attorney Convicted of Taking Bribes: Caught in FBI Sting
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A senior attorney with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was convicted Tuesday in Los Angeles federal court of taking a series of bribes from immigrants seeking documentation to remain in the U.S., the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. ICE Assistant Chief Counsel Constantine Peter Kallas, 39, of Alta Loma, Calif. was…
NY Feds Crackdown on Gambino Crime Family: Indict 14
NY FBI Agents Involved in the Mob Arrests/photo by Richard Kolko By Allan Lengel For AOL News The New York feds came crashing down on the Gambino crime family Tuesday, indicting 14 members and associates — including one of the top bosses — on charges ranging from murder, extortion and narcotics trafficking to tampering with…
FBI File on Holocaust Museum Shooter Reveals 1963 Incident
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON –– It’s not particularly shocking. Nonetheless, it’s interesting that the FBI had a file on a 1963 incident involving James von Brunn, the man who killed a Holocaust museum guard in Washington last June 10, according to the Associated Press. Von Brunn, 88, died in January before he could go…
15 Years Later: Brother of Oklahoma Bomber Keeps Distance From Limelight
By Allan Lengel For AOl News Fifteen years after the Oklahoma City bombing, James Nichols — whose younger brother Terry was convicted in the case — isn’t really talking, except to say he’s still an organic farmer in Michigan. “I’m not commenting unless you’ve got a big checkbook,” Nichols told AOL News in a phone…