http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/fbi/ en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:42:37 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2050653/posts was a headline waiting to happen: "FBI grabs Princess' Diaries." The FBI confiscated Anne Hathaway's intimate diaries during another raid on Raffaello Follieri’s $37,500-a-month Trump Tower apartment, according to the Daily News. Anne's former boyfriend is charged with 11 counts of fraud and money laundering. Anne has not been implicated or charged with any crime. She has cut off all contact with her ex and changed her numbers so he can’t reach her, a friend told the Daily News, but "he has been trying to call her all the time.” Maybe he should be charged with stalking as well. Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2050653/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:42:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929008/posts CHICAGO (AP)--Prosecutors accused an Islamic charity leader of extensive ties with Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, saying he ushered dozens of armed warriors into Bosnia to establish a base there. Enaam Arnaout ``allowed violent persons both inside and outside of the al-Qaida network to flow to areas of conflict and survive there under the cover of an American charity,'' prosecutors said in court papers made public Friday. Arnaout, 41, is scheduled to be sentenced Monday on racketeering charges. He admitted defrauding donors to Benevolence International Foundation by sending supplies to military-style units in Bosnia and Muslim rebels fighting Russians in... Dayton Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929008/posts#comment Sat, 14 Jun 2003 14:33:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049595/posts Current Biological Threat The risk of a large-scale biological attack on the Nation is significant. We know that our terrorist enemies have sought to use biological agents as instruments of their warfare, and we believe that capability is within their reach. I know many here today recall the anthrax attacks of 2001. As you know, Mr. Chairman, certain buildings occupied by Members of the Legislative Branch were temporarily closed while they were decontaminated. The magnitude of that terrorist attack is miniscule compared to the larger, anthrax release envisioned by our enemies. It is nonetheless exemplary of the potential health and... Department of Homeland Security Press Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049595/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:50:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048166/posts I never give time frames, because you never know where you'll have sufficient evidence to go public with a prosecution, " Mueller said. ABCNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048166/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:41:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047373/posts Waldo - Some 150 anarchists from throughout the United States and Canada descended on a strip of private land this week in this Sheboygan County village for four days of workshops, including some focused on strategizing for demonstrations at the upcoming Democratic and Republican national conventions. The 2008 CrimethInc. Convergence was the sixth annual communal campout organized by CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective, an international underground network that since the mid-1990s has published widely read anarchist texts such as "Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook." The group also has drawn the attention of FBI agents trying to infiltrate the protest movement. At... Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047373/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:11:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047271/posts Dr Bruce Budowle has been in the FBI for over 20 years, heading one of its forensic laboratories. He looks back to the mysterious and still unsolved case of the anthrax envelopes which followed 9/11 and which moved bioterrorism combat to a new level. *** Robyn Williams: The shape of sleuthing to come, Angela van Daal at Bond University in Southern Queensland. She has been looking after Bruce Budowle, an FBI veteran of 20 years who's head of their lab in Virginia and is sometimes called the FBI's top scientist. He's not only involved in forensics but also in the... ABC.net.au http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047271/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:20:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046764/posts WASHINGTON -- Failed lender IndyMac Bank is among nearly two dozen banks under scrutiny by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for possible mortgage fraud, U.S. officials said. The big Pasadena, Calif., bank was seized by regulators last week, the third-largest bank failure in U.S. history. It specialized in home loans to borrowers who lacked full documentation for their income or assets and have a higher default rate than other loans. The IndyMac investigation began shortly before the bank was seized last week, a law-enforcement official said. The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046764/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:33:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046486/posts Drudge is reporting that the FBI has been investigating failed bank IndyMac for mortgage fraud in loans made to risky borrowers. Countrywide is also under investigation. Drudge Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046486/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:30:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045660/posts Excerpt from book: “The anthrax spores in the letter to Daschle were so professionally refined, the Central Intelligence Agency believed the powder must have been sent by an experienced terrorist organization, most probably Al Qaeda, as a sequel to the group’s September 11 attacks. During a [October 17] meeting of the White House’s National Security Council that day, Cheney, who was sitting in for the President because Bush was traveling abroad, urged everyone to keep this inflammatory speculation secret. ... They thought Cheney had already been lethally infected. ... *** Cheney in particular was so stricken by the potential for... ABCNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045660/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:49:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044205/posts As fears grow over Iran secretly developing nuclear weapons, U.S. counterintelligence officials are keeping a close eye on scientists from Iran and other Muslim nations working at the U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories, WND has learned. The Energy Department recently revoked the security clearance of an Egyptian-born nuclear physicist because he was suspected of "conflicting allegiances." Last year, DOE and FBI agents began questioning Moniem El-Ganayni, who worked on the side as a Muslim prison chaplain. worldnetdaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044205/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:02:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043888/posts A local FBI agent who reportedly shot and killed a 3-pound Chihuahua named Sassy in front of his home near Lorena in February was indicted Wednesday on felony charges that could end his career. A McLennan County grand jury indicted 39-year-old Lovett Leslie Ledger Jr. for cruelty to animals, a state jail felony punishable by up to two years in a state jail and a $10,000 fine. Before the grand jury decided to indict Ledger, prosecutor Crawford Long granted his request to tell them his side of the story. Ledger was in the closed-door grand jury room for about 25... Tribune-Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043888/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:58:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041140/posts Our reporting partners at the Detroit News are reporting that the FBI has electronic surveillance that links Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers to the Synagro scandal. The evidence reportedly proves that Conyers received either a payment or payments in connection with the city-approved sludge contract. wxyz.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041140/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:55:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039295/posts The director of the FBI is not happy with the Supreme Court's recent handgun ruling. Robert Mueller says he tends to believe that "weapons harm people, and more often than not they harm the people carrying them." Mueller said the high court's decision, which threw out a handgun ban in Washington, D.C., "does throw a lot of things up in the air." Mueller said communities will now have to decide their own licensing programs. Mueller was speaking at a convention of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators in Hartford, Connecticut. He says with his grandchildren going to college,... kwtx.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039295/posts#comment Tue, 1 Jul 2008 17:54:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039041/posts "Hundreds" of FBI agents will be in Denver during the Democratic National Convention, according to James Davis, the FBI special agent in charge of the Denver field division that oversees Colorado and Wyoming. The FBI is "responsible for gathering intelligence on, primarily terrorist activity, any possible terrorist activity with regard to the convention, and make sure we get that intelligence to our partner agencies so they can be prepared," according to a "Colorado Matters" interview that aired today on Colorado Public Radio. The audio is available here. Davis also said that, "We don't have any information right now about any... Denver Post via Drudge http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039041/posts#comment Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:32:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038676/posts Steven Hatfill finally has his life back. Thanks to FBI incompetence, he also has $5.8 million. ... It's worse because it is a virtual confession that the anthrax case is cold. Throughout one of the largest investigations in law-enforcement history, agents were fixated on a "lone wolf" theory that Director Robert Mueller's FBI, for all intents and purposes, now admits was wrong. Helped along by a sympathetic press corps, the obsession with a domestic perpetrator has ended up in a dead end. *** So the FBI needed to cast a wider net all along – which still remains urgent. In... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038676/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:49:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037846/posts (Washington, D.C.) – The following is a statement from Rep. Rush Holt (NJ-12) in reaction to today’s announcement by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that it had agreed to pay former Army biowarfare expert Dr. Steven Hatfill $5.8 million in a settlement related to the FBI’s previously naming Hatfill a “person of interest” in the investigation of the 2001 anthrax letter attacks on the United States. The attacks originated from a postal box in Holt’s central New Jersey congressional district, disrupting the lives and livelihoods of many of his constituents: “As today’s settlement announcement confirms, this case was botched from... Holt's website http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037846/posts#comment Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:24:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037488/posts The Justice Department on Friday agreed to pay more than $5.8 million to Steven Hatfill, the former government scientist once branded by the Justice Department a person of interest in the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001. The legal settlement to Hatfill, in cash and an annual payments, signals the end of a civil lawsuit Hatfill brought against the Justice Department and FBI, accusing them of violating his privacy rights by improperly leaking sensitive information about the anthrax investigation to reporters. "I think it's a gratifying end to a very sad chapter in [Hatfill's] life and that of the FBI and... MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037488/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:48:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037356/posts LAWFUEL - A senior attorney with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was arrested today after allegedly taking a $20,000 bribe from an immigrant seeking documentation to remain in the United States. ICE Assistant Chief Counsel Constantine Peter Kallas, 38, and his wife, Maria Kallas, 39, both of Alta Loma, were arrested this afternoon by special agents with ICE Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. They were arrested at the San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino in Highland, where they allegedly accepted a bribe payment from an immigrant. The couple is expected to make their... The Law News Network http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037356/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:08:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036851/posts A senior Republican senator and two Democratic congressmen want the FBI to investigate suspected retaliation against an agent who told a House subcommittee that a third of the leadership positions in an elite FBI division that tracks al Qaeda terrorists are vacant. Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee; Rep. John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee; and Rep. Robert C. Scott of Virginia told FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III in a letter that the bureau "wasted no time in taking action against" Agent Bassem Youssef following his May... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036851/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:27:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035530/posts Video urges that US-based supporters of the Salafi-Jihadists were responsible for the anthrax mailings in Fall 2001 (through infiltration of the UK and US biodefense establishment revealed by the documentary evidence). The reason the Administration has kept this information from the public is insufficient. The Administration should now come forward with what it knows about the anthrax mailings before the November election so that the White House might best explain what happened and why things took the course it did. YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035530/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:46:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034105/posts The FBI released its [1] preliminary crime figures for 2007 last week, and as is sometimes the case there was both good and bad news to be found in the report. Violent crime in the U.S. fell by 1.4 percent last year, a modest decline to be sure but a decline nonetheless after increases of 1.9 percent in 2006 and 2.3 percent in 2005. This nationwide trend is largely attributable to the even more dramatic drop in crime seen in AmericaÂ’s largest cities: there was a 9.8 percent drop in murders in cities with populations of greater than one million.... PAJAMAS MEDIA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034105/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:27:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033837/posts The FBI has identified the Twin Cities as one of the 10 worst areas of the United States for mortgage fraud and said it has literally dozens of criminal investigations underway here as part of a national crackdown on the problem. Deputy U.S. Attorney General Mark Filip and FBI Director Robert Mueller called a news conference Thursday afternoon in Washington to announce a special enforcement effort targeting mortgage fraud and mortgage-related securities fraud. The multi-agency initiative is called Operation Malicious Mortgage. From March 1 through June 18, the government charged 406 defendants in 144 mortgage fraud cases around the country.... Minneapolis StarTribune (aka The Red Star) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033837/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:40:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029463/posts WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - A hedge-fund swindler who was supposed to be driving himself to prison abandoned his car on a bridge with the phrase "Suicide is Painless" scrawled on its hood, but no body has been found in the river below — and the victims of his fraud say they doubt he killed himself. The FBI and state police are skeptical, saying they're still looking for Samuel Israel III. Israel, 48, a co-founder and chief executive of the now-collapsed Bayou hedge funds, was sentenced in April to 20 years in federal prison for conspiracy and fraud, to begin Monday... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029463/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:43:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028337/posts WASHINGTON - Both violent and property crimes declined in 2007 from the previous year, the FBI reported Monday. In preliminary figures for crimes reported to police, the bureau said the number of violent crimes declined by 1.4 percent from 2006, reversing two years of rising violent crime numbers. Violent crime had climbed 1.9 percent in 2006 and 2.3 percent in 2005, alarming federal and local officials. Property crimes were down 2.1 percent last year from the previous year, the largest drop in the last four years. "One preliminary report does not make a trend, but it's going the way we... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028337/posts#comment Mon, 9 Jun 2008 15:55:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024023/posts The FBI has launched a publicity campaign in Afghanistan to announce a $1 million reward for information about an American from California charged with treason. Adam Yahiye Gadahn, 29, grew up in Riverside County. He is "an integral part of al-Qaida's media and recruitment branch (and) has endorsed terrorist activity," FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said Friday. Gadahn was indicted by a federal grand jury in Santa Ana in 2005. He was charged with one count of treason and two counts of providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. The FBI's publicity effort campaign will include matchbooks, handbills and... AP on Bakersfield Californian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024023/posts#comment Sat, 31 May 2008 16:29:47 GMT