The Trump administration is dismantling a major pillar of federal civil rights enforcement, moving Tuesday to scrap rules ...

President Trump has pardoned Tim Leiweke, the former chief executive of Oak View Group, months after he was indicted on a federal conspiracy charge tied to the $375 million Moody Center project in ...

Newly released data shows that more than a third of the roughly 220,000 people arrested by ICE in the first nine months of the Trump administration had no criminal history, despite White House claims ...

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The government sees it as an act of chutzpah. Mob expert Jerry Capeci of Gang Land News reports that Reynold (Ren) Maragni, a Colombo capo, who was cooperating with ...

A federal judge in Manhattan has ordered the public release of grand jury transcripts and other sealed records from Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking case, acting under a new federal law that ...

Allan Lengel, editor of ticklethewire.com, is a veteran journalist who has covered law enforcement at major publications including the Washington Post and the Detroit News. He also served as an intern ...

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s never pretty when fed prosecutors go after a federal agent. But that’s what will happen Jan. 6 in Cleveland when trial is slated to begin for Drug Enforcement ...

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 with more than 25 ...

FBI Director Christopher Wray appointed two executive assistant directors to vital positions in the bureau. Jill Sanborn, who most recently served as the special agent in charge of the Minneapolis ...

By Allan Lengel For AOL News If the office voice mail recording is any indication, damage control was in full swing this week at the Gerber Boy Scout Camp near Muskegon, Mich., where the director is ...

The so-called “adopted son” of John Gotti, the late Gambino crime boss, is taking credit for the FBI raiding the Florida home of a former deputy sheriff on Monday.

Accused Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger forced a former drug kingpin to play Russian roulette in the back room of a nightclub in 1983, according to testimony at the racketeering and murder trial, ...