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The owner and chief executive officer of an armored vehicle company was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for his role in orchestrating a scheme to defraud the United States by providing the U.S. Department of Defense with armored gun trucks that did not meet ballistic and blast protection requirements set out in the company's contracts with the United States.
Federal Bureau of Investigation and other agencies are in Mississippi County helping in the search for a missing 18-year-old special needs student with autism as law enforcement continues to follow up leads on her whereabouts. According to Mississippi County Sheriff Dale Cook, the FBI and the Arkansas Child Abduction Response Team have been helping search for Ashton Talley.
Trump has on several occasions, however, questioned whether Russia was behind efforts to interfere in the 2016 election. President Donald Trump attacked the FBI and lawmakers probing suspected Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election, drawing sharp criticism for saying an excessive focus on Russia led investigators to miss signs that could have prevented a deadly school shooting in Florida.
Wouldn't if be ironic if the very document that started the whole Russia-collusion story ends up making a large portion of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation completely public? Last week I posted on the lawsuit filed by BuzzFeed against the DNC . BuzzFeed is locked in an existential battle with a Russian tech mogul named Aleksej Gubarev.
Protesters hold placards at a rally calling for more gun control in the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Photo: Reuters President Donald Trump attacked the FBI and lawmakers probing alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and said an excessive focus on Russia led federal investigators to miss signs that could have prevented a deadly mass shooting a Florida high school.
Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., expressed astonishment that President Trump would use the tragedy they experienced last week to push back on the FBI's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Late Saturday night from his nearby Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump accused the FBI of spending too much time on potential collusion between Moscow and his own presidential campaign.
Florida officials found the alleged shooter who killed 17 people and injured 14 others at a Florida high school last week to be a low-level risk after a 2016 probe into his home life, according to The Washington Post. The Florida Department of Children and Families report, obtained by the Post, concluded in the investigation that Nikolas Cruz's "final level of risk is low," but found the teenager had behavior difficulties and had planned to purchase a firearm.
President Donald Trump gestures as he walks as he leaves the White House, Friday, Feb. 16, 2018, in Washington, for a trip to his private Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. President Donald Trump gestures as he walks as he leaves the White House, Friday, Feb. 16, 2018, in Washington, for a trip to his private Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Venting his fury over the Russia investigation, President Donald Trump on Sunday asserted that the Obama administration bears some blame for the election meddling, insisted he never denied that the Kremlin interfered in the 2016 U.S. campaign and said "they are laughing their asses off in Moscow."
President Donald Trump questioned the special counsel's intensifying Russia probe on Sunday while attacking his own national security adviser, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Hillary Clinton, former president Barack Obama, Congress, CNN and others in a nine-hour span of tweets that included swearing and grammatical errors. Posting from his Florida estate, he seemed most aggrieved that special counsel Robert Mueller's team had unearthed 13 indictments against Russians on Friday - and alleged that they could have swayed the 2016 election to benefit Trump.
Hulu's upcoming 9/11 drama, "The Looming Tower," might make you question whether you want to watch a show about how we failed to stop one of the deadliest days in U.S. history. But the outcome doesn't diminish the drama, according to Dan Futterman, showrunner for the 10-episode series that premieres Feb. 28 on the streaming service.
Washington, Feb 18 - US President Donald Trump lashed out at the Federal Bureau of Investigation , describing its failure to follow up on a tip about the Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz as very sad, the media reported. The FBI has said that it failed to act on information about the 19-year-old Cruz, who slaughtered 17 people on February 14 at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school in Parkland, reports CNN.
President Donald Trump's national security adviser said Saturday there was "incontrovertible" evidence of a Russian plot to disrupt the 2016 U.S. election, a blunt statement that shows how significantly the new criminal charges leveled by an American investigator have upended the political debate over his inquiry. The statement by H.R. McMaster at the Munich Security Conference stood in stark contrast to Trump's oft repeated claim that Russian interference in his election victory was a hoax.
Nikolas Cruz wants to plead guilty so that he can avoid the death penalty and spare a traumatized South Florida community a trial that would recount horrifying details of his mass shooting, a top public defender said Friday. "This is an opportunity to put the criminal case behind and help the victims' families begin to try and pick up pieces of their lives for our community to heal and to figure out how we stop these things from ever happening again," said Broward County Public Defender Howard Finkelstein.
According to the Grand Rapids Police Department, following a three-week manhunt for Norman Dennis Muhammad Jr., who was wanted for a parole absconding warrant and for questioning in the double murder of Germaine Brown and King Talbert on Jan. 17, Muhammad was captured on Feb. 9 at an apartment complex in the 4700 block of South Breton Court SE in Kentwood. The Grand Rapids Police Investigation Unit, along with members of the FBI Fugitive Task Force as well as Kentwood Police SRT units, participated in a planned search warrant at a specific apartment where it was believed Muhammad was staying.
As usual, it seemed to come out of nowhere. And, as usual, it didn't. The murderer who took the lives of 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Fla., was on everybody's radar, from the school authorities to the local police to the FBI, which failed to follow its own protocols when a person close to the future killer called to warn the bureau that he was contemplating a school massacre.
A former neighbor has video that allegedly shows Nikolas Cruz in his backyard, shooting what may be a pellet gun. The FBI now admits it should have been investigating the Florida teenager weeks ago.
FBI Director Robert Mueller listens as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013, as the House Judiciary Committee held an oversight hearing on the FBI. Mueller is nearing the end of his 12 years as head ... more > Special counsel Robert Mueller won indictments Friday charging 13 Russian nationals and several companies with interfering in the 2016 U.S. election in order to aid President Trump .
The massacre at a Florida high school is again raising concerns about whether the FBI missed signs that might have stopped a mass shooting. Last fall, a Mississippi bail bondsman and video blogger noticed a comment on one of his YouTube videos that said, "I'm going to be a professional school shooter."
The FBI said Friday that it failed to follow "protocols" when it received a tip earlier this year about the teenager accused of killing 17 in a mass shooting at a South Florida high school. In January, person close to the accused shooter, 19-year old Nikolas Cruz, called the FBI's public tipline and raised concerns about his gun ownership, desire to kill and warned of a possible school shooting.