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CBP Is Hiring 2,000 New Agents Because of New 2014 Spending Plan
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com CBP plans to hire 2,000 new agents thanks to funding provided in the 2014 budget, KTAR reports. The hiring of agents to secure the air, land and sea ports has nothing to do with the current immigration crisis involving unaccompanied Central American children, officials said. “This was in the pipeline,” said CBP…
Homeland Security Director: Cash for Border Protection About to Dry Up
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Funding to combat illegal immigration may be gone in less than a month, warned Homeland Security Director Jeh Johnson. Johnson is urging lawmakers to approve an emergency spending bill. At the current rate, Johnson said funds for the U.S. Immigration Customs would dry up in the mid-August. Cash for Border Protection would…
New Jersey Police Captain Accused of Using FBI Database to Vet Baseball Teammates
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A judge convicted a suspended New Jersey police captain of using an FBI database to check to do backgrounds of players on a minor league baseball that he followed, Philly.com reports. Brian Brady, 52, of Sparta, also directed subordinates to use the National Crime Information Center database to conduct a background check…
ATF Handles Far Fewer Cases Because of Policy Change Under President Obama
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The number of ATF cases recommended for prosecution dropped by a third since 2004, according to data compiled by Syracuse University, the Washington Times reports. Federal investigators and gun law experts said the decline is attributed to a policy change in the Obama administration, which has changed its focus to regulatory-type cases….
Seattle’s New FBI Chief Described ‘Momentum’ In 13-Year-old Murder of Prosecutor
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The new head of the Seattle FBI office is wiping off the dust of a 13-year-old investigation into the fatal shooting of a Seattle federal prosecutor after expressing “momentum” in the case, the Seattle Times reports. “It’s an ongoing, active investigation,” Special Agent in Charge Frank Montoya Jr. said during a wide-ranging…
Despite All the Hype, The PBS Show on The Jimmy Hoffa Disappearance Didn’t Crack the Case
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — As we thought would be the case, the PBS show Tuesday night on Jimmy Hoffa — “Who Killed Jimmy Hoffa?” — didn’t crack the case as the pre-show hype suggested it might. And it certainly didn’t leave you feeling as if you knew what really happened to the Teamster boss….
FBI May Investigate Death of Staten Island Man Placed in Chokehold by NYPD
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is considering launching its own investigation into the death of a Staten Island man who died after he was placed in a chokehold by police, The New York Post reports. The bureau also is “monitoring” the investigation by the New York Police Department. George Venizelos, the chief of the FBI’s…
80th Anniversary: Death of Gangster John Dillinger Helped Lead to Creation of FBI
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Gangster John Dillinger was the fed’s first Public Enemy Number One. It was June 22, 1934, and Dillinger was wanted for at least 12 bank robberies, four police department robberies and the murder of a police officer. Outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago, agents from the Department of Investigation of the Justice…