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Officials within the FBI have recommended that the agency's embattled former deputy director, Andy McCabe, be fired, just days before he is set to officially leave government, according to a source with knowledge of the recommendation. The recommendation from the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility came after an internal report by the Justice Department 's inspector general accused the FBI veteran of misleading investigators looking into an array of matters connected to the 2016 presidential campaign , the source said.
The Grayson County Commissioners Court hired investigations company Defenbaugh & Associates Inc. on Tuesday to perform background checks on the two District Attorney's office employees who have applied to be named the county's interim district attorney.
An Austin teenager was killed and several others injured Monday when two packages left on doorsteps exploded, marking the second and third deadly package explosions in the Texas capital in two weeks. Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said the three incidents displayed enough similarities to lead police to investigate them together.
Rapper Juelz Santana will remain in federal custody pending a preliminary hearing on charges he attempted to carry a handgun aboard a plane leaving from Newark Liberty International Airport, a magistrate judge ruled Monday. Santana, a Totowa resident whose legal name is Laron James, appeared in court wearing a black long-sleeve T-shirt and sweatpants Monday afternoon, just hours after he was taken into custody by Port Authority police detectives.
President Trump is creating a federal commission on school safety, ordering a review of the FBI tip line that ignored warnings about the gunman who killed 17 people at a Florida high school, and encouraging states to arm more qualified adults so schools are less vulnerable to attacks, administration officials said Sunday night. The president also is calling on Congress to approve legislation aimed at improving the federal system of background checks of criminals, and is promoting another bill that would provide grants to states to prevent school violence.
A southern California man has been arrested by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department after authorities say he flashed a fake FBI badge trying to gain access to the county's jail armed with a handful of weapons , and then fled on foot before getting apprehended. A southern California man has been arrested by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department after authorities say he flashed a fake FBI badge trying to gain access to the county's jail armed with a handful of weapons , and then fled on foot before getting apprehended.
The White House is ignoring a bipartisan congressional inquiry regarding documents about the Rob Porter scandal, prompting the House Oversight Committee's top Democrat to request that the White House be subpoenaed over the matter. The committee's investigation into White House security clearances began after Porter, a former staff secretary, resigned amid domestic abuse allegations, which he denies.
Fox News contributor Sara A. Carter reports former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele knew that the Clinton campaign was footing the bill for the anti-Trump dossier, yet the FBI never included this information in its FISA court application for Carter Page. ormer British spy Christopher Steele was informed months after accepting the job to compile a dossier on then-candidate Donald J. Trump that the Hillary Clinton Campaign and the Democratic National Committee were paying the bills but that's not what the FBI told the secret FISA court when it sought a warrant to spy on one of Trump's campaign volunteers.
Indonesian officials prepare to board the luxury yacht 'Equanimity', reportedly worth some 250 million USD and owned by Jho Low, a former unofficial adviser to the Malaysian fund 1MDB, at Benoa Bay in Bali on February 28, 2018 / AFP JAKARTA: A luxury yacht linked to allegations that US$4.5bil was looted from Malaysia's state investment fund 1MDB is being handed over to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation , which is probing the scandal, Indonesian police said Thursday. US and Indonesian authorities last week searched the Cayman Island-registered Equanimity, reportedly worth some US$250mil , which was moored off the Indonesian tourist island of Bali.
Indonesia is making preparations to hand over a luxury yacht seized in Bali last month to U.S. authorities targeting assets allegedly bought with money siphoned off from a Malaysian state fund, a police official said on Thursday. A seized a luxury yacht sought by the U.S. Department of Justice as part of a multi-billion dollar corruption investigation is seen off the shore of Banoa, on the resort island of Bali, Indonesia February 28, 2018 in this photo taken by Antara Foto.
The FBI has been in cahoots with Best Buy's Geek Squad for at least the past decade, new documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit reveal. An FBI memo obtained by the nonprofit digital rights group reveals that Best Buy in September 2008 hosted a meeting of the law enforcement agency's Cyber Working Group at a Geek Squad repair facility in Kentucky.
From where does incompetent government come? On February 16, two days after Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people at a public school in Parkland, Fla., the Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed that in January it had received through its tipline information about Cruz's behavior that suggested he might commit a mass shooting. The FBI further revealed that, contrary to protocol, the information was never forwarded to its agents in Miami for further investigation.
Employees with Best Buy's Geek Squad repair unit were paid by the FBI to pass information on to its agents, documents show. Agents paid managers in the retailer's device repair unit to pass along information about illegal content discovered on customers' devices, according to documents posted online by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Republican Reps. Bob Goodlatte and Trey Gowdy are calling on Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to appoint a special counsel to review decisions made by the FBI over the past two years when the Bureau was obtaining surveillance warrants to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election.
When the truck pulled up, the three tribal members would have known there would be trouble as they walked between their homes on a morning last November in the rural town of Sells. They were just south of one of the Tohono O'odham Indian Nation capital town's two Catholic churches.
Trump is arguably the most thin-skinned president in modern times, and the slightest provocation will set him off on a tirade of insults, counterattacks, distractions and self-pity. He has called former FBI Director James Comey a leaker and falsely claimed the FBI was in tatters under his management.
Julian Ruiz was sentenced today to 210 months in prison for his role in a racketeering conspiracy and for using or possessing firearms in furtherance of a crime of violence, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down earlier today by the Honorable Lucy H. Koh, U.S. District Judge.
The FBI announced this week it has agreed to investigate the disappearance of 21-year-old Ashley Loring Heavyrunner, who vanished from Montana's Blackfeet Reservation in June 2017. The decision for the FBI to take control of the case comes nearly nine months after her sister first went missing.
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