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Greedy Citigroup Exec Admits Embezzling More than $22 Million
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com For those who like to vent about the greed of bankers, here’s more ammunition: Meet Gary Foster, the vice president in Citigroup, Inc.’s treasury finance department. Foster pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Brooklyn to bank fraud involving the theft of more than $22 million from Citigroup between September 2003…
Justice Dept. Gives “No Confidence Vote” to Phoenix U.S. Atty Office: Moves Controversial Cases
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is transferring two controversial weapons cases and a murder case out of Phoenix, news that comes after Phoenix’s U.S. Attorney Dennis K. Burke abruptly resigned late last month, CBS News reports. “The Department of Justice is giving a no-confidence vote to the US Attorney’s office in Arizona,” one…
John Edwards Wants Criminal Charges Dropped; Claims Charges are Part of Political Crusade
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Senator and two-time presidential candidate John Edwards, whose public image quickly turned to mud after news of his affair surfaced while his wife was dying of cancer, wants the criminal charges against him dismissed. Politico’s Josh Gerstein reports that Edward’s high-powered attorneys Abbe Lowell, Jim Cooney and Wade Smith filed a…
Maryland Scientist Pleads Guilty for Attempting to Spy for Israel
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A Maryland scientist busted in an FBI sting in 2009 for attempting to spy for Israel, pleaded guilty Wednesday in D.C. federal court to one count of attempted espionage, the Associated Press reported. Stewart D. Nozette, 54, was charged in 2009 with giving sensitive government information to an undercover FBI agent…
Appeals Court Rules Against Justice Dept. in Cellphone Tracking Case
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The D.C. Appeals Court ruled against the Justice Department Wednesday, saying it must publicly disclose secret information about how and when the government gathers and uses cell phone location data to track certain criminal suspects, CNN reported. “The disclosure sought by the plaintiffs would inform this ongoing public policy discussion by…
Head of El Paso FBI David Cuthbertson Named Assistant Director
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com David Cuthbertson, head of the FBI’s El Paso Division, has been named assistant director of the Justice Information Services Division. Cuthbertson joined the FBI in 1988 and was assigned to the Cincinnati Division working motorcycle and violent street gangs and drug trafficking. In 1992, he transferred to the Dallas Division, where…
NYPD Spied on Mosques and Innocent People
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Associated Press has obtained confidential documents that show the New York cops collected intelligence on more than 250 mosques and Muslim student groups in and around New York. AP reported that the department used undercover officers and informants to canvas the Islamic population of New York. AP wrote that the…