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Seeking Tough Justice in Probes into Financial Institutions, But Settling for...

Atty. Gen. Holder/doj file photo By Jesse Eisinger  ProPublica  Don’t get too excited about bank indictments. The Justice Department is talking tough. In an unusually frank video statement, Attorney...

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Pennsylvania Attorney General Launches Innovative Program Around the State to...

Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane By Jeffrey Anderson An emerging crime initiative by Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane is deploying mobile street crimes units to small cities and towns in...

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FBI’s Tainted Key Witness Creates Big Problems in Mobster Case for NY U.S....

This piece originally appeared in Gang Land News on June 26 and is being reprinted with permission. It’s the most recent story Gang Land News has published about the case since disclosing that...

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A New FBI Show Is Coming to Prime-Time TV This Season on CBS

By Alan Stamm ticklethewire.com Josh Dunhamel is no Efrem Zimbalist Jr., and his new TV show is unlike “The F.B.I.” The 2014 version is “Battle Creek,” a drama-comedy set in that Michigan city and...

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A Book Review About Baseball, A-Rod and the Steroid Era

Blood Sport: Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis, and the Quest to End baseball’s Steroid Era , By Tim Elfrink and Gus Garcia-Roberts Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident...

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Detroit’s Top FBI Agent Paul Abbate Talks About ISIS, Gangs, Corporate...

  Paul Abbate By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — Paul M. Abbate arrived in Detroit last fall to take over the local FBI office, days after Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick got a hefty 28-year prison...

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Horn of Plenty: Middle East Heroin and Meth Is Bound for the U.S. Through...

By Jeffrey Anderson For ticklethewire.com An indictment in U.S. District Court in Manhattan of a major international drug trafficking enterprise in the Middle East and Africa is shining a light on law...

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Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch Named ticklethewire.com Fed of the...

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Loretta E. Lynch, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn, has been named ticklethewire.com Fed of the Year for 2014. Lynch, who was...

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Gang Land News: Feds Cheer Mama’s Boy Mob Snitch, And He Earns A Sweet Reward

Jerry Capeci is considered a mob expert. He’s the founder and editor of the paid subscription website Gang Land News. This article was republished with permission. By Jerry Capeci Anthony Zoccolillo’s...

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The “Political Corruption” Behind the Imprisonment of Richard “White Boy...

This Michigan Department of Corrections record shows his earliest  and latest release dates as never at the bottom right. . . Vince Wade is a former investigative reporter for WXYZ and Fox 2. He now...

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DEA’s John ‘Jack’ Riley Named ticklethewire.com’s Fed of The Year For 2015

John “Jack” Riley By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com John “Jack” Riley,  the DEA’s acting deputy administrator, has been named ticklethewire.com’s Fed of the Year for 2015. Riley, a native of Chicago...

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Nine Years Later, Ex-FBI Agent Robert Levinson Still Missing After Visiting Iran

Robert Levinson By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com This past Wednesday marked the ninth anniversary of the disappearance of  ex-FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished after going to Iran. In hopes of...

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Book Excerpt: ‘Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran’

Ex-FBI agent Robert Levinson became a private investigator. He also had another life —  a consultant for the C.I.A. In 2007, Levinson, then 59, disappeared on Kish Island, in the Persian Gulf off the...

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Book Excerpt: The Spy Who Couldn’t Spell: A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable...

Before Edward Snowden’s infamous data breach, the largest theft of government secrets was committed by an ingenious traitor whose intricate espionage scheme and complex system of coded messages were...

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Joe Rannazzisi, Retired DEA Official, Named ticklethewire.com Fed of The Year...

Joe Rannazzisi (Photo grab from 60 Minutes) By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com For the first time since the awards were given in 2008, a former, rather than current federal law enforcement official has...

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Excerpt From Investigative Reporter Dan Moldea’s Book: ‘Hollywood Confidential’

A specialist on organized-crime investigations since 1974, best-selling author and independent investigative journalist Dan E. Moldea has published seven nonfiction books including, “The Hoffa Wars:...

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Robert Mueller & Rod Rosenstein Named ticklethewire.com Feds of the Year for...

Rod Rosenstein and Robert S. Mueller III By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III have been named ticklethewire.com’s Feds of...

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Separating Fact from Fiction in the Hit on Mobster Joey ‘Crazy Joe’ Gallo

The author is an organized crime researcher. By Andy Petepiece Frank Sheeran Charles Brandt’s bestselling book, “I Heard You Paint Houses” is the foundation of Martin Scorsese’s new film, “The...

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Dan Moldea: On The 44 Anniversary of Jimmy Hoffa’s Disappearance. Here’s What...

The writer, a Washington investigative journalist specializing in organized-crime and political-corruption investigations, is a Jimmy Hoffa murder expert. He is the author of “The Hoffa Wars” (1978)...

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Joe Piersante of the DEA Named ticklethewire.com Fed of The Year for 2019

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Joe Piersante in 2010. DEA agent Joe Piersante has been named ticklethewire.com’ Fed of The Year for 2019. Piersante, who retired this month in Detroit, took a...

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