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Relatives Get Rare Opportunity to Raise Objections to Release of Certain FBI Files of Ted Kennedy
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – In a rare move, the family of Edward M. Kennedy will be allowed to raise objections before thousand of pages of the late Senator’s FBI file are released, the Boston Globe reports. The paper reports that the the FBI is providing the “uncommon” opportunity so that the privacy rights…
Retired G-Man Operates Website to Pay Tribute to FBI Agents Who Went After the 1930s Outlaws
Agent George H. Franklin at shooting range in 1930s/ photo from Wack’s website By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sure, there’s been endless stories about the many gangster of the 1930s like John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Bonnie and Clyde. But what about the FBI agents who battled the criminals of that era, says Larry Wack,…
Jurors in Ex-Cong. William Jefferson Said Mundane Documents — Not $90,000 in FBI Money or FBI Tapes — Convinced Them to Convict
Jefferson stands next to attorney Robert Trout during sentencing last November /Sketch by Art Lien/NBC News By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Rep.William Jefferson was hardly a household name — that is until FBI agents found $90,000 in his freezer at his Capitol Hill home on Aug. 3, 2005. In the public’s eye, that seemed to be…
FBI Tapes, 3 Aging Chicago Mobsters and a Plan to Rob
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The arrest of three Chicago area mobsters on Thursday — all senior citizens — had the makings of a movie, from the FBI surveillance and listening devices to the plan to knock off an armored car and rob the home of the late mob boss Angelo “The Hook” LaPietra. The Chicago…
Grandma Led 3-Generation Drug Ring
By Allan Lengel For AOL News Nancy Bell is not your typical grandma. Just ask the feds and the sheriff’s department in Lee County, Va. Authorities say the 64-year-old Tennessee grandmother, who suffers from heart ailments, and her daughter Iris Gibson, 45, and granddaughter Misty Parker, 23, illegally trafficked in OxyContin. The powerful narcotic painkiller…
Qatar Diplomat Scares the You Know What Out of Everyone Aboard DC-to-Denver Flight: No Joke
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — First lesson: if you’re going try your hand at humor on a plane — better it be funny, than scary. The Associated Press reported that something went wrong on United Flight 663 from Washington-to-Denver Wednesday night when a diplomat from Qatar, who has lived in the U.S. for years,…
FBI Arrests S.F. Man for Threatening Calls to Speaker Nancy Pelosi
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — The FBI arrested a San Francisco man this afternoon for allegedly making dozens of threatening phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over health care reform, the latest in the backlash against lawmakers who supported the legislation. Gregory Giusti, 48, was arrested around 12:15 p.m. and was…
Key FBI Official Arthur Cummings Retiring: Head of FBI Memphis Office Coming to Washington
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A key FBI official, Arthur M. Cummings II, executive assistant director for the FBI’s National Security Branch at headquarters– which includes weapons of mass destruction, counterintelligence and counterterrorism — is retiring soon to work for a financial institution in Connecticut. Cummings, who has been an agent for 22-years, had…