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Ex-High Ranking Secret Service Agent Among Those Busted in FBI Sting Involving 22 Executives
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A former high ranking Secret Service agent was among 22 executives of military and law enforcement supply companies indicted this week in an FBI sting involving foreign bribery and sale of small arms, amunition and protective gear to Africa. Patrick Caldwell, the chief executive officer of Florida-based Protective Products…
Newseum in D.C. Has Exhibit on G-Men And Journalists and Top Stories of the FBI’s First Century
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FBI and Justice Dept. Employee Alice J. Manning Dead at Age 82
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Alice J. Manning, 82, who was featured in a Washington Post article in 1946 along with her seven brothers and sisters, and who worked as a secretary for the FBI and an administrative assistant for the Justice Department, died in Baltimore last month, the Washington Post reported Friday. She…
OYE! Jewish Prayer Object Causes Plane to Divert to Philly
tefillin/istock photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Oye. A US Airways Express flight carrying 15 passengers from New York to Louisville on Thursday was diverted to Philadelphia after a Jewish teenager put on a religious prayer object called a tefillin, the Associated Press reported. Authorities said the 17-year-old from White Plains, N.Y., put on the tefillin,…
FBI Investigating Allegations by TV Star Jon Cryer That Ex-Wife May Have Hired Hitman, TMZ Reports
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Drama for the cast of “Two and a Half Men” seems to be going far beyond the tv screen. TMZ is reporting that the FBI is investigating allegations by Jon Cryer, who co-stars with Charlie Sheen on the CBS hit, that his ex-wife may have hired a hitman to kill him….
Justice Dept. Fires Back As Tension Mounts With Office of National Intelligence
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Let the fun begin. The Justice Department is firing back as tension between the agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence seems to be on the rise. On Wednesday, Intelligence Director Dennis Blair told a Congressional committee that he was never consulted before the FBI decided…
FBI Busts Maryland Police Lt. On Allegations That Included Phone Texts of Sexually Explicit Photos With Teen Girl He Was Having Affair With
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The FBI arrested a lieutenant from a suburban Maryland police department on child pornography charges stemming from his alleged relationship with a teenage girl and the exchange of sexually explicit photos and messages via phone texts, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baltimore announced Thursday. James Cifala, 47, of the…
Senate Confirms ex-U.S. Attorney and Atlanta Fed Judge Beverly Martin to Court of Appeals
By Allan Lengel tickethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Senate on Wednesday confirmed the nomination of U.S. District Judge Beverly Martin, a former U.S. Attorney, to the federal court of appeals judge in Atlanta, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Martin joins the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which includes Georgia, Alabama and Florida. “It is humbling that…