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An American-born citizen who federal authorities say recently scouted locations in Cleveland to attack people watching Fourth of July fireworks and talked of carrying out additional bombings has been charged with trying to support terrorism. Federal authorities said Monday that Demetrius Pitts, 48, had repeatedly expressed his support for al-Qaida for more than a year and talked about setting off bombs at a July 4 parade and later in his hometown of Philadelphia.
President Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen, who is under a criminal investigation in New York, said his family is his "first loyalty" - possibly signaling his willingness to cooperate with the feds, according to a new report. "My wife, my daughter and my son have my first loyalty and always will," Trump's longtime confidant and fixer told George Stephanopoulos in an off-camera interview on "Good Morning America" that aired Monday.
Never Trumper, and EIC of The Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro, appeared on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher" Friday evening and said Trump is too stupid to have colluded with Russia but if he did collude, he's happy to see the Mueller indictments and ultimately happy to see Trump impeached. The Mueller witch hunt is political hit job by the Deep State.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is assisting D.C. police with the search for a missing 9-year-old girl who hasn't been seen since Friday. Moore is described as a black female with light brown complexion, 5 feet, between 120-125 pounds, with short black hair and brown eyes.
A special prosecutor has been appointed to assist St. Louis police looking into whether an investigator for the prosecutor's office committed perjury in his investigation of then-Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens. Democratic Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner hired Tisaby, a former FBI agent, to assist in investigating whether Greitens took an unauthorized cellphone photo of a woman during a sexual encounter in 2015.
Having lost his fight to have the bank- and tax-fraud case against him thrown out of federal court, Paul Manafort on Friday sought to have the financial records found in his condominium and storage unit tossed. Those records were obtained through search warrants, partially released this week, that detail the extent to which the former lobbyist and Trump campaign chairman found himself in debt and dependent on money from pro-Russian interests.
House Republicans expressed their frustration Thursday at Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and the Russia investigation aimed at President Trump during an often tense hearing that was punctuated by the House passing a resolution prodding the Justice Department to turn over sensitive documents related to their investigation of the Trump campaign. Republicans grilled Mr. Rosenstein over what they perceive as a refusal to hand over the confidential documents; the role anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok played in starting the Russia probe; the length of the special counsel Robert Mueller 's Russia probe and if the deputy attorney general approved a surveillance warrant on Trump campaign aide Carter Page .
In this Aug. 12, 2017, file photo, people fly into the air as a vehicle is driven into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. Federal hate crime charges have been filed against James Alex Fields Jr., accused of driving the car.
Former Republican, failed McCain/Palin campaign manager, and MSNBC political analyst Steve Schmidt has been suffering near daily meltdowns over the Trump administration for some time, but the last week has triggered another level of desperation. On Tuesday's Deadline: White House , Schmidt vilely suggested that the Supreme Court's travel ban ruling for the Trump administration "was a fantastic fulfillment of Osama bin Laden's vision" for America in causing "a war of civilization...between the West and 1 billion Muslims."
In July 2008, special agents from the FBI Sacramento Field Office executed a search warrant at the residence of a suspect and interviewed other individuals in connection with a mortgage fraud investigation. In addition to finding evidence for their own case, investigators uncovered ties to what appeared to be a separate mortgage fraud scheme, and FBI Sacramento opened another case, working in partnership with the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation.
One little news item emerged from the ongoing investigation of the Russia investigation . The outrage machine moved on to the border, to immigration and children separated from their illegal alien parents.
This 1995 file photo taken in West Palm Beach, Fla., and released by the FBI shows Francis P. "Cadillac Frank" Salemme. The former New England Mafia boss and and his co-defendant, Paul Weadick, were found guilty, Friday, June 22, 2018, in the 1993 killing nightclub owner Steven DiSarro.
Just three weeks ago, Representative Gowdy, the South Carolina Republican who chairs the House Oversight Committee, assured us that everything was peachy with the FBI - no way, no how did the bureau "spy" on the Trump campaign when it deployed an "informant" to pry information from Trump-campaign officials. As Mollie Hemingway pointed out at the time, Gowdy had not seen relevant documents the FBI and Justice Department have been withholding from Congress - in fact, his spokeswoman said he did not even know what documents and records have been subpoenaed by the House Intelligence Committee .
Peter Strzok, the FBI agent wrapped in controversy because of text messages he'd written about President Trump and his role in several of the most politically contentious investigations at the bureau in recent months has been subpoenaed to testify before Congress. FBI agent Peter Strzok subpoenaed after anti-Trump text messages Peter Strzok, the FBI agent wrapped in controversy because of text messages he'd written about President Trump and his role in several of the most politically contentious investigations at the bureau in recent months has been subpoenaed to testify before Congress.
Federal investigators say they are still searching for two people named in a federal indictment linking street gang activity in Danville to a homicide in 2016.
THE FBI have joined the investigation after a suspicious package sent to Romsey's MP brought the town to a standstill two months ago. The office of Romsey and Southampton North MP Caroline Nokes was quarantined in April after a potentially dangerous substance was found within a letter sent to the Immigration Minister.
House Republicans are demanding the Department of Justice and the FBI hand over documents related to the Hillary Clinton email probe and the Russia investigation. And if they don't, GOP leaders are reportedly threatening to hold top federal law enforcement officials - including Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein - in contempt of Congress.
Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation may face a serious legal obstacle: It is tainted by antecedent political bias. The June 14 report from Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department's inspector general, unearthed a pattern of anti-Trump bias by high-ranking officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh announced recently the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio are now involved in reviewing information into the recent cancellation of school field trips by Discovery Tours. According to Walsh, Discovery Tours, based in Mayfield Village, coordinated educational tours to several destinations for schools throughout Ohio, including to Washington, D.C., and Chicago.