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FBI Probing Fatal Prison Stabbing in West Virginia
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI and prison officials are investigating a fatal stabbing of an inmate Sunday at the U.S. Penitentiary at Hazelton in West Virginia, the Associated Press reported. The facility has been on lockdown since the Sunday when Jimmy Lee Wilson, 26, was stabbed to death during an altercation, AP reported. He…
FBI Raids Chicago Bars; Probe Video Poker Machine Links to Mob
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Chef Overboard? The FBI Wants to Know
Coral Princess Ship By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has jumped into the probe into a missing Italian chef who disappeared aboard a cruise ship sailing from Aruba to Colombia. The Associated Press reported that chef Angelo Faliva was last seen Nov. 26 aboard the Princess Cruise’s Coral Princess. Authorities are looking into the possibility…
Daphne Hearn to Head FBI’s Intelligence Division in LA
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Daphne Hearn, special assistant to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, has been named special agent in charge of the bureau’s Intelligence Division in Los Angeles Hearn, a Kansas City, Mo. native, began her FBI career in 1991. She started out in Buffalo and got involved in an organized…
Another Mistrial in Big Federal Case; This Time NJ Shock Jock Hal Turner Walks
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — On Monday, for the second time in less than a week, a federal judge declared a mistrial in a high profile Justice Department case that captured the interest of many nationwide. A federal judge in Brooklyn declared a mistrial in the case against Hal Turner, a New Jersey shock…
Michigan Duo Charged With Trying to Extort $680,000 From Actor John Stamos
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In Michigan’s rustic Upper Peninsula, where the beer is cheap and the winters long, a locale far removed from the glamor and stardom of Hollywood, authorities arrested two peopleĀ for allegedly threatening to release damaging 2004 party photos of actor John Stamos if he didn’t pay them $680,000, according to an…
Chicago Feds Charge Suspected Terrorist in Deadly Mumbai, India Attack
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In what came as little of a surprise, federal prosecutors in Chicago charged suspected terrorist David Coleman Headley with helping plot the deadly India attack in Mumbia that killed more than 165 people in 2008. The Associated Press reported that prosecutors charged Headley with helping scope out targets for the Mumbai…
Fed Prosecutors Could Have Difficulty Getting Death Penalty in NY 9/11 Trial
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Even if prosecutors convict suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his cronies, they may not convince a N.Y. jury to put them to death. The Los Angeles Times quotes a former N.Y. federal prosecutor Paul Butler who worked major terrorism cases as saying: “It will be an uphill…