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Big-Time Boston Lawyer Robert A. George Charged With Money Laundering
By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com A high-profile Boston attorney who has represented mobsters and some big name clients was charged Wednesday with money laundering that included taking payments from an undercover DEA agent posing as a drug dealer from the Dominican Republic. Authorities charged that attorney Robert A. George, 56, of Westwood, Mass., helped conceal $225,000…
4 Family Members Busted for Trying to Sell F-5 Jet Engines to Iran
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Four family members have been indicted in Miami on charges of attempting to sell 22 F-5 fighter jet engines to Iran for $320,000. Only problem with their plan was that they tried selling the engines to an undercover federal agent, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami said. According to the allegations…
Why the Underwear Bomber Picked Detroit
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — Why Detroit? The Associated Press reports that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, dubbed the “underwear bomber”, thought about blowing up a plane above Houston or Chicago on Christmas day in 2009, but the ticket to Detroit was cheaper. The AP reported that he considered Houston, where he had gone to school….
FBI Says Deadly Gang Used Cell Phones From Prison to Give Orders on Outside
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With modern technology comes modern headaches for law enforcement. The El Paso Times reports that an FBI agent testified in federal court in El Paso on Wednesday that the violent Barrio Azteca gang leaders in prison gave orders to street soldiers by cell phone. FBI agent Samantha Mikeska said the cell…
Border Agents Bust 13 Illegal Immigrants in Marine Uniforms
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The game keeps changing. In a new twist, Border Patrol agents busted 13 illegal immigrants in California who were wearing U.S. Marines uniforms and driving in a fake military van, FOX News reported. The station reported that the illegal immigrants were nabbed at the Campo Border Patrol Westbound I-8 checkpoint at…
EX-FBI Agent Takes Shots at Brooklyn Prosecutors in His New Book
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex- New York FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio, who beat a murder wrap in 2007 after being accused of advising a mob informant to kill four turncoats, is going after theĀ local Brooklyn prosecutors who unsuccessfully went after him, according to the New York Daily News. In his new book “We’re Going…