Michael O. Allen

Tag: FBI

  • Bamboozling ACORN

    Just in case anyone had any doubt that George W. Bush’s highly politicized Justice Department is up to its old tricks in the raids and investigation of ACORN’s voter registration efforts, TalkingPointsMemo posted a video of a similar initiative back in 2006. The scumbag du jour was Bradley Schlozman, a thug with a history of…

  • FBI’s Most Vaunted

    Sunday, October 5, 1997 By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer The Most Wanted List, an icon of a seemingly bygone era, started innocently enough. A wire service reporter asked the FBI in 1949 for a list of the toughest guys it would like to capture. The resulting story in newspapers around the nation…

  • Normal City? Are You Nuts?

    December 12, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and JANE FURSE, Daily News Staff Writers New York ain’t normal, according to a new book — whereas Orange County, Calif., is. That’s Orange County as in Disneyland and the biggest municipal bankruptcy in history. Whaddaya mean New York is the “most abnormal” of American cities? Merely a…