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FBI Agent Opens Up About Ex-Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick’s Public Corruption Trial
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI opened its investigation of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick more than 8 years ago after getting a variety of tips, the leader investigator on the case told WXYZ Channel 7 reports. Channel 7 interviewed FBI Special Agent Bob Beeckman about an investigation that included some 70 agents, 1,000 witnesses and…
AG Eric Holder Pledges to Avoid Furlough of Prison Staffers Under Sequestration
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Attorney General Eric Holder said he’s prevented the furloughs of prison staffers nationwide to protect prison staff, inmates and the public, the Associated Press reports. Holder prevented the furloughs of some 38,000 employees at the U.S. Bureau of Prisons by moving $150 million from from Justice Department account, the AP wrote. The…
Ammunition Found in Wealthy Dallas High School; Where Are the Metal Detectors?
By Pamela Kripke Huffington Post Earlier this month, a student at my daughter’s public high school found a pile of .22 caliber bullets on the floor of a boys’ bathroom. A day before, a threatening note was discovered in the same restroom, inside a stall. On top of the tissue dispenser. In February, three similar…
Weekend Series on Law Enforcement History: A 1960 FBI Film on Defense Tactics
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U.S. Senator Harshly Criticizes FBI for Handling of Mob Informant Mark Rossetti
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sen. Charles Grassley, a longtime critic of the FBI, issued some harsh words for the agency in the case of FBI informant Mark Rossetti, a big-time Boston mobster, who was sentenced last week in Suffolk Superior Court to 12 years in prison. Grassley said the Boston FBI hasn’t learned its lesson…
FBI Searches Home of Former Reagan Aide Robert McFarlane for Evidence of Sudanese Relationship
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents searched the apartment of a national security adviser under former President Reagan on suspicions that he violated federal law by lobbying on behalf of the Sudanese government, according to an Associated Press story in the Washington Post. Agents searching the apartment of Robert McFarlane found classified White House documents and handwritten…
More Than 100 Members of Congress Urge FBI to Expand Tracking of Hate Crimes
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Support for tracking hate crimes against Sikhs, Hindus and Arab-Americans gained traction Thursday after more than 100 members of Congress sent a letter urging the FBI to take action, the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel reports. The letter urging the FBI to begin tracking hate crimes against those groups comes after the Department of…
FBI’s ‘Ten Most Wanted’ List Celebrates 63 Years of Existence
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One of the most popular weapons against criminals, the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” recently turned 63 years old. The list of most-wanted fugitives has helped nab 153 most-wanted fugitives from people tipped off by pictures on the list, About.com reports. Of the 495 people who have been on the list, 465 have…