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Column: Does Secret Service Need More Rules to Make Sure Agents Don’t Hire Hookers?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It would seem like common sense that if you’re a Secret Service agent and you’re on the road, you shouldn’t booze it up too much and bring prostitutes back to the hotel. Well, obviously some Secret Service agents needed a little more guidance and common sense. So after the Colombia-prostitute scandal,…
Taiwanese Pair Held for Alleged Drug and Arms Smuggling
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com What first looks like a routine drug bust seems to have evolved into international arms smuggling charges. The FBI is alleging that Taiwanese nationals Hui Sheng-shen, 45, and Huan Ling-chang, 41, known as “Charlie” and “Alice”, were trying to acquire military spy drones, E-2C Hawkeye surveillance airplanes and stealth technology relating to…
FBI Move to $150M New Chelsea, Mass. HQ in Limbo
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Are sour grapes delaying construction of the FBI’s new $150 million regional headquarters in Chelsea, Massachusetts? Slated to begin construction late last year (never happened) bid-winning developer Emerald Corporate Center LLC, a division of ACS Development Corp. is facing a lawsuit from losing-bidder Boston Harbor Development Partners, an arm of Pappas Enterprises…
5 Gambino Gangsters Plead Guilty to Laundry List of Dirty Deeds
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Racketeering, narcotics trafficking, assault, extortion, murder? Just another day-in-the-life of a Gambino mobster. Five Gambino wise guys pled guilty this week to a range of nefarious charges, announced Preet Bharara, NY U.S Attorney in Manhattan. Working as “soldiers” and “associates” of the Gambino crime family, Vincenzo Frogiero, Todd Labarca, John Brancaccio, Christopher…
Feds Urge Locals to Stay Alert
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Could the Secret Service Scandal be Bigger?
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Just when it looked as if the Secret Service might be able to wrap up its prostitution mess sooner than later. CBS is reporting that authorities were looking into the possibility that Secret Service agents may have paid for hookers and strippers in El Salvador while being part of an advance team…
DEA Busts T.S.A. Screeners at LAX for Letting Drugs Through Security
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com This time it was drugs slipping through security for a few thousand in bribes. Next time? Who knows? One federal prosecutor noted that next time it could be dangerous materials. The L.A. Times reports that the DEA has busted four former and current TSA agents at LAX. They allegedly accepted cash to…