Category: US Federal Bureau of Investigation

Closing in on Clinton! Hillary’s former aide faces criminal charges

Trying to put Hillary Clinton in prison while Obama was President and Loretta Lynch was having secret meetings with Bill Clinton was harder than everyone expected. Now that the powerful democrats are out of their position and have been replaced with members of the GOP, the forces that be are able to conduct their investigations without abrupt disruptions and distractions.

FBI Still Investigating MN Mall Stabbing

The head of the FBI in Minneapolis says authorities may never be certain about the motive behind the stabbing attack that left 10 people wounded at a Minnesota mall five months ago. FBI Special Agent in Charge Rick Thornton says it still appears that Dahir Ahmed Adan may have been radicalized.

Critics: Trump should not ignore domestic terrorist threats

In this Friday, June 18, 2015 file photo, police tape surrounds the parking lot behind the AME Emanuel Church as FBI forensic experts work the crime scene where nine people where shot by Dylann Storm Roof, 21, in Charleston, S.C. Since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the Southern Poverty Law Center has tracked domestic terrorist plots and attacks in the United States.

Flynn, Russia and the World of Conspiracy Thinking

Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn has a well deserved reputation for conspiracy thinking. Presumably he will assume that the U.S. intelligence community, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the former director of National Intelligence, conducted a campaign to force his removal from the Trump administration.

FBI interviewed Michael Flynn about his talks with Russian ambassador

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Vehicle used by suspects in armed robberies

The victim of a romance scam describes how she was duped out of $2 million by an online suitor she has never met. Christine Beining, a special agent in the FBI’s Houston division, describes how scam artists use internet sites to prey on lonely men and women to get to their money.

FBI admits no arrest warrant signed when Duane Ehmer was arrested, contrary to agent’s testimony

FBI agents admit in court papers that they had no arrest warrant at the time they took Duane Ehmer into custody at a checkpoint outside the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on Jan. 27, 2016, contrary to an agent’s testimony earlier this week. It wasn’t until the day after Ehmer’s arrest that a federal magistrate judge signed a criminal complaint against Ehmer based on an FBI agent’s probable cause affidavit.

Washington lawyer charged with trying to sell sealed lawsuit

A Washington lawyer from a major law firm was wearing a wig as a disguise when he was arrested last week trying to sell a copy of a secret lawsuit against a California technology security company for $310,000, according to a criminal complaint. Jeffrey Wertkin, a former U.S. Justice Department trial attorney who joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as a partner last year, was charged in the complaint filed in federal court in San Francisco made public on Tuesday.

Here’s what Trump’s ‘send in the feds’ could mean for Chicago

President Trump has warned he may soon “send in the feds” to Chicago to help reduce gun violence there, and while that may sound like a threat from the new president, there’s a precedent for federal aid in reducing gun violence. And though it may sound like federal intrusion into local issues, there already signs that some cities might welcome that aid.

FBI probes threat to ‘blow up’ Denver-area refugee center

Anonymous notes threatening to “blow up” a refugee community center catering mainly to Muslim immigrants were found at the Denver-area building, prompting a hate-crime investigation by the FBI, police said on Friday. The two identical, typewritten notes were left on Thursday in the parking lot and stairwell of the Mango House in the Denver suburb of Aurora, both with the message: “WERE GONNA BLOW UP ALL OF YOU REFUGEES,” according to police spokesman Sergeant Chris Amsler.

Sources: U.S. Border Patrol Chief Morgan Asked to Leave the Agency

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan, a former longtime Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, has left the agency, two sources familiar with his departure told Reuters on Thursday. Morgan told employees on a phone call Thursday morning that he was not resigning but had been asked to leave by the Trump administration, said a Department of Homeland Security official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

US National Security Advisor’s Russia links probed: Report

Washington, Jan 23 – US counterintelligence agents have investigated National Security Advisor Michael Flynns communications with Russian officials, a media report said. Flynn is the first person in the newly-inaugurated US President Donald Trump’s administration whose communications are known to have been combed as part of a multi-agency investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation , Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency, into whether the Russian government secretly helped elect the New York billionaire, The Hill magazine reported on Sunday night citing the Wall Street Journal .

Citizen sleuths’ new clue in aviation mystery

But even after the FBI shut the book on the mysterious case of DB Cooper, armchair detectives have refused to give up the search for answers. They’ve continued to investigate who this well-dressed businessman was, why he hijacked a US domestic flight 45 years ago, and how he then disappeared without a trace.

She was abducted from the hospital as a newborn; 18 years later, she met her birth parents

Velma Aiken, the paternal grandmother of Kamiyah Mobley, who was kidnapped as an infant 18 years ago, gets a congratulatory hug from a family member after Mobley was found safe Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, in Jacksonville, Fla. less Velma Aiken, the paternal grandmother of Kamiyah Mobley, who was kidnapped as an infant 18 years ago, gets a congratulatory hug from a family member after Mobley was found safe Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, in … more This composite image made available by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office in Jacksonville, Fla., shows a photo of Kamiyah Mobley, an infant baby girl who was kidnapped by a woman, seen in separate sketches first provided by police in 1998 during the initial search.

Christopher Steele, the ex-MI6 agent behind the Trump dossier

The building housing the offices of Orbis Buiness Intelligence where former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele works, is in central London. Christopher Steele, who wrote reports on compromising material Russian operatives allegedly had collected on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, is a former officer in Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, according to people familiar with his career.

Five reasons why the Justice Department watchdog is probing the Clinton case

An announcement Thursday that Michael Horowitz, inspector general for the Department of Justice, would lead a far-reaching probe into how officials at the Justice Department and the FBI handled an investigation into Hillary Clinton ‘s emails resurrected a controversy that many Democrats had blamed for the loss of their candidate in the presidential race. The year-long criminal investigation of Clinton’s private email network – and whether it compromised classified information from her tenure at the State Department – rankled Republicans and Democrats alike, both in the perfunctory way agents pursued it and the public way the FBI director closed it.

Phone hacking company falls victim to hackers

In this July 18, 2011, file photo, an examiner at an FBI digital forensics lab views data extracted easily from a smartphone, in Salt Lake City. A digital forensics firm known for helping law enforcement crack into locked smartphones has fallen victim to hackers.

Hillary Clinton Email Criminal Investigation to Reopen

Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano says the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation is about to be re-open. Editor’s Note: The Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General announced Thursday it will launch an internal probe on the Federal Bureau of Investigation handling of Hillary Clinton email investigation, according to The Wall Street Journal .

Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: United States and Cuba to Hold…

The United States and Cuba will hold a meeting to coordinate their efforts to fight trafficking in persons in Washington, D.C., January 12 and 13. The U.S. delegation will be led by Ambassador-at-Large Susan Coppedge of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and Deputy Assistant Secretary John Creamer of the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. Working-level representatives from the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Health and Human Services will also participate.

Former Volkswagen Exec Charged With Conspiracy To Defraud US

Oliver Schmidt, who used to serve as the top emissions compliance manager for Volkswagen AG in the U.S., was arrested by the FBI on Saturday, charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States over the company’s diesel emissions cheating scandal. The former executive will appear U.S. District Court in Miami on Monday afternoon.

FBI agent who interrogated Saddam Hussein leads airport case new

The FBI agent who interrogated Saddam Hussein alone for months after the former Iraqi leader’s capture is now leading the investigation into the Florida airport shooting rampage that killed five and is being blamed on an Iraq war veteran. George Piro, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Miami field office, was Saddam’s sole interrogator beginning in January 2004.

FBI agent who interrogated Saddam Hussein leads airport case

The FBI agent who interrogated Saddam Hussein alone for months after the former Iraqi leader’s capture is now leading the investigation into the Florida airport shooting rampage blamed on an Iraq war veteran. George Piro, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Miami field office, was Saddam’s sole interrogator beginning in January 2004.

Killer ‘lost his mind’ in Iraq

US authorities were under pressure yesterday to explain how a mentally ill man, whom his family said “changed” after serving in Iraq, was able to arm himself and shoot five people dead in Fort Lauderdale airport. Runaway chaos: People stand on the tarmac at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport last Friday after a gunman opened fire inside the terminal Photo: AP Photo/Lynne Sladky US authorities were under pressure yesterday to explain how a mentally ill man, whom his family said “changed” after serving in Iraq, was able to arm himself and shoot five people dead in Fort Lauderdale airport.