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Got Drugs? DEA Wants You to Turn Them In
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The ad stripped across the bottom of USA Today’s Money section on Monday read: “Got Drugs? Turn in your unused or expired medication for safe disposal Saturday, October 29th.” The ad, an apparent play on the popular ad campaign “Got Milk?”, also appears on the top of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s…
Affleck and Matt Damon to Make Movie About Mobster “Whitey” Bulger
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It was just a matter of time. Four months after the FBI captured Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger in California, word has surfaced that a movie will be made based on his life. The website Deadline New York reports that actors Ben Affleck and Matt Damon “are reuniting in their first…
Arson Suspect Pleads to Threatening to Kill ATF Task Force Member
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some thoughts are better kept to yourself. That’s what Craig Allen Shepperd, 37, of Whitehall, Md., hopefully learned. Shepperd pleaded guilty to threatening to murder an ATF task force member pleaded guilty last Friday in Baltimore federal court. “ATF agents, along other federal, state, and local law enforcement officers put their…
TN ACLU Sues ICE for Warrantless Raid: Agent Allegedly Said “The Warrant is Coming Out of My Balls”
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In the heat of the moment, fed agents can say the darnest things. The website Talking Points Memo reports that the Tennessee chapter of the ACLU is suing Immigration and Customs Enforcement over an alleged warrantless raid on an apartment complex in Nashville in which an agent allegedly shouted, “we don’t…
FBI Director Mueller’s Nostalgic Moment
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com CHICAGO — This same time last year, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III was feeling a little nostalgic when he spoke in Orlando before the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference. It was like a final victory lap, the last speech as director before the group. But in a move…
Atty Gen. Holder Says 12,000 Cops to be Laid Off This Year
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com CHICAGO — Times are tough. Attorney Gen. Eric Holder brought that point home Monday morning as he spoke to a large audience at the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Chicago about the state of law enforcement in the country as departments face budget cuts. Holder said nearly 12,000 police…
FBI Investigates Japanese Bankers’ Big Pay-Off
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Who knew an advisory roll could pay out so well? Hajime Sagawa and Akio Nakagawa, two Japanese bankers, spent their career moving from firm to firm on Wall Street, reports the New York Times. Then, when advising the Japanese company Olympus–largely successful in medical equipment but better known as a…
Gangs Expanding and Some Activity Now Includes Mortgage Fraud and Human Trafficking
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Gangs across the U.S. are continuing to expand, with some even moving into white collar crimes like mortgage fraud and counterfeiting, alien smuggling and human trafficking, according to the 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment released by the National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC), the FBI said. “Gangs continue to expand, evolve,…