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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pu ... story.htmlJudge orders US taxpayers to pay $13.2 million in wrongful FBI hair
conviction case
Santae A. Tribble, right, seen with his son Santae Tribble Jr. in
2011, served 28 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit due to a
flawed hair analysis by the FBI. (Mark Gail/The Washington Post)
By Spencer S. Hsu February 28 at 5:56 PM
A D.C. Superior Court judge has ordered the District government to pay
$13.2 million to Santae A. Tribble, who was jailed for 28 years after
being wrongfully convicted of killing a Southeast Washington taxi
driver in 1978.
The award Friday brings to $39 million the damages amount the city has
been ordered or agreed to pay over the past year to three District men
wrongly imprisoned for decades.
They were convicted at trial through exaggerated claims about the
reliability of FBI forensic hair matches, a pattern uncovered by the
D.C. Public Defender Service and featured in a series of articles in
The Washington Post.
Policing by Consent
The title policing by consent was adapted
from the ancient hindu sanskript
चोन्सेन्त
loosely translated the title means
" what do you expect when you hire
mercenaries to protect you?"
FBI Secrets: - Page 11 - Google Books Result
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0896085015M. Wesley Swearingen - 1995 - Biography & Autobiography
After finishing the quiz in silence, students would grade each other's
papers. ... no one would believe me if I said that FBI agents cheat on
written examinations.
3 stories on cheats
1.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/mor ... s-are-out/A cheating scandal has hit the Pennsylvania State Police Academy. Now
29 cadets are out.
February 27 2016
Pennsylvania State Police Troopers walk along Route 191 after
searching the woods in Henryville, Pa., during the 2014 manhunt for
suspected cop killer Eric Frein
Twenty-nine cadets have left the Pennsylvania State Police Academy,
amid an investigation into allegations of cheating among the
prospective troopers.
Penn Live reports that the 29 cadets, who were part of a class
expected to graduate next month, have either been dismissed or have
resigned from the academy so far.
Citing unnamed police sources, Penn Live reported that a “cheat sheet”
had been discovered, and noted that at the academy, “some of the test
materials haven’t changed between classes.”
Recruits have written tests and other exams, and if the materials
weren’t switched up, that allows for a “possible vulnerability in the
process,” the newspaper reported. Details of the exact nature of the
allegations still seemed a bit unclear, however, with the Associated
Press reporting that State Police Commissioner Tyree Blocker “gave
only a few details about the probe into the academy’s 144th graduating
class, saying the investigation is ongoing.”
Blocker, the AP reported, would not describe the manner of alleged
cheating.
“We won’t tolerate anyone who lies, cheats or steals,” he said,
according to Penn Live. “The public has, and rightfully so, an
expectation that members of the State Police have the highest
integrity and I am insistent on that.”
The allegations are still under investigation.
“We’re working very diligently
2.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 06371.html22 FBI agents cheated on exam on counterterrorism
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
The Justice Department said Monday that it found almost two dozen FBI
agents, including supervisors, had cheated on an exam to test their
knowledge of new counterterrorism procedures. It suggested that the
scandal might eventually spread far beyond the few offices it
investigated.
ad_icon
"We believe the extent of the cheating related to this test was
greater than the cases we detailed in this report," Justice Department
Inspector General Glenn A. Fine reported.
The open-book test was administered to about 20,000 employees to make
sure they understood the 2008 Domestic Investigations and Operations
Guide, promulgated as a result of new rules implemented after the
Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Twenty-two agents "cheated or acted improperly in some manner related
to the exam," Fine's office said after an investigation of four field
offices, one resident agency and two headquarters components.
He added that "the amount of cheating that we identified in our
limited interviews cannot be extrapolated to the entire population of
FBI test-takers," but he urged the FBI to investigate further.
3.
Head Of Washington D.C. FBI Resigns In Shame
December 9. 2009
http://www.judiciaryreport.com/head_of_ ... _shame.htm4.
Showdown over Gascón’s secret evidence in SF corruption case
February 27, 2016
http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/mati ... 858771.phpSan Francisco District Attorney George Gascón (left) and FBI agent
David J. Johnson discuss the corruption case this month.
The bell rings Monday for round two of the San Francisco public
corruption saga in Superior Court.
In one corner: District Attorney George Gascón, who is trying to keep
a public lid on details of his case against two former city officials
and an ex-city staffer accused of bribery. In the other corner:
defense attorneys who say the district attorney is trying to hide
“nefarious” conduct by an undercover FBI agent at the center of the
case.
The agent “retired under a cloud of financial irregularity after an
investigation which resulted in him being taken off this case,” said
John Keker, the attorney representing former Human Right Commission
compliance officer Zula Jones.
Jones, along with former commission member Nazly Mohajer and ex-school
board President Keith Jackson, have been charged with bribery in
connection with an alleged “pay to play” scheme, in which the
undercover FBI agent funneled thousands of dollars in illegal
political donations to one or more unnamed local officials.
The case is a spin-off of a federal investigation into Chinatown gang
leader Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow that resulted in the convictions of
Jackson and former state Sen. Leland Yee on bribery and racketeering
charges.
Keker said he plans to tell Superior Court Judge Edward Torpoco at
Monday’s arraignment that the undercover agent who passed himself off
as an Atlanta developer ended up under investigation himself for
financial irregularities and retired. He’ll cite documents filed in
Chow’s trial.
“He comes into town and acts like a brother, and then throws around
lots of cash and acts like a big shot and gets people to do and say
stupid things,” Keker said. “He’s a menace. ... He is a danger to the
community.”
FBI spokesman Prentice Danner said the case is “ongoing with the
district attorney, and we don’t comment on ongoing litigation.”
Monday’s hearing comes a month after Gascón asked the judge to keep in
place a federal court’s gag order that has cloaked the case in
secrecy. That order kept some evidence from public view, on the
grounds that releasing it could endanger other undercover FBI agents,
compromise investigations or tarnish the names of people who were
targeted in the federal probe but were never charged.
FBI wiretaps that defense attorneys quoted in the Chow case allegedly
recorded Mohajer and Jones discussing $20,000 in contributions from
the undercover agent that would be broken into $500 checks to help pay
off Mayor Ed Lee’s 2011 campaign debt. Breaking up the $20,000 would
enable the money to go to Lee without appearing to violate individual
donation limits.
Posing as a developer looking for business in the city, the undercover
agent later got a meeting with Lee.
“You pay to play here,” Jones told the agent in a 2012 conversation,
according to court documents filed in the Chow case.
Lee has denied any wrongdoing or knowledge of the scheme.
“This stuff about protecting the mayor (as a reason for gag order) is
a bunch of bull, because there is nothing to protect,” Keker said.
The district attorney has agreed to make all the information available
to the defense attorneys, but only after they sign an agreement
barring them from making it public.
Public Defender Jeff Adachi’s office, which is representing Jackson,
will also argue for the gag order to be lifted.
“This whole idea that they can have this secretive process and put
everything under a protective order concerns me — and it should
concern everyone,” said assistant Public Defender Niki Solis.
“There were good reasons to have our affidavit sealed, and the judge
who reviewed the warrant agreed,” said district attorney spokesman
Alex Bastian.
“As the case proceeds in court, the evidence that supports the charges
will be presented in a public courtroom,” Bastian said.
In the neighborhood: That $2,700-a-head fundraiser the other day for
Hillary Clinton at the Piedmont home of East Bay developer Mike
Ghielmetti and his wife, Rebecca, was a packed affair. But not
everyone in town welcomed the Democratic presidential hopeful.
“It takes a lot of chutzpah for her to come to Chris Stevens’ hometown
to ask for money,” said Piedmont resident Larry Singer, a registered
Republican. He was referring to the Piedmont-reared ambassador to
Libya who was slain in the 2012 attack by militants on the U.S.
compound in Benghazi — an episode that critics have pinned
Judge orders US taxpayers to pay $13.2 million in wrongful FBI hair
conviction case
Santae A. Tribble, right, seen with his son Santae Tribble Jr. in
2011, served 28 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit due to a
flawed hair analysis by the FBI. (Mark Gail/The Washington Post)
By Spencer S. Hsu February 28 at 5:56 PM
A D.C. Superior Court judge has ordered the District government to pay
$13.2 million to Santae A. Tribble, who was jailed for 28 years after
being wrongfully convicted of killing a Southeast Washington taxi
driver in 1978.
The award Friday brings to $39 million the damages amount the city has
been ordered or agreed to pay over the past year to three District men
wrongly imprisoned for decades.
They were convicted at trial through exaggerated claims about the
reliability of FBI forensic hair matches, a pattern uncovered by the
D.C. Public Defender Service and featured in a series of articles in
The Washington Post.
Policing by Consent
The title policing by consent was adapted
from the ancient hindu sanskript
चोन्सेन्त
loosely translated the title means
" what do you expect when you hire
mercenaries to protect you?"
FBI Secrets: - Page 11 - Google Books Result
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0896085015M. Wesley Swearingen - 1995 - Biography & Autobiography
After finishing the quiz in silence, students would grade each other's
papers. ... no one would believe me if I said that FBI agents cheat on
written examinations.
3 stories on cheats
1.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/mor ... s-are-out/A cheating scandal has hit the Pennsylvania State Police Academy. Now
29 cadets are out.
February 27 2016
Pennsylvania State Police Troopers walk along Route 191 after
searching the woods in Henryville, Pa., during the 2014 manhunt for
suspected cop killer Eric Frein
Twenty-nine cadets have left the Pennsylvania State Police Academy,
amid an investigation into allegations of cheating among the
prospective troopers.
Penn Live reports that the 29 cadets, who were part of a class
expected to graduate next month, have either been dismissed or have
resigned from the academy so far.
Citing unnamed police sources, Penn Live reported that a “cheat sheet”
had been discovered, and noted that at the academy, “some of the test
materials haven’t changed between classes.”
Recruits have written tests and other exams, and if the materials
weren’t switched up, that allows for a “possible vulnerability in the
process,” the newspaper reported. Details of the exact nature of the
allegations still seemed a bit unclear, however, with the Associated
Press reporting that State Police Commissioner Tyree Blocker “gave
only a few details about the probe into the academy’s 144th graduating
class, saying the investigation is ongoing.”
Blocker, the AP reported, would not describe the manner of alleged
cheating.
“We won’t tolerate anyone who lies, cheats or steals,” he said,
according to Penn Live. “The public has, and rightfully so, an
expectation that members of the State Police have the highest
integrity and I am insistent on that.”
The allegations are still under investigation.
“We’re working very diligently
2.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 06371.html22 FBI agents cheated on exam on counterterrorism
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
The Justice Department said Monday that it found almost two dozen FBI
agents, including supervisors, had cheated on an exam to test their
knowledge of new counterterrorism procedures. It suggested that the
scandal might eventually spread far beyond the few offices it
investigated.
ad_icon
"We believe the extent of the cheating related to this test was
greater than the cases we detailed in this report," Justice Department
Inspector General Glenn A. Fine reported.
The open-book test was administered to about 20,000 employees to make
sure they understood the 2008 Domestic Investigations and Operations
Guide, promulgated as a result of new rules implemented after the
Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Twenty-two agents "cheated or acted improperly in some manner related
to the exam," Fine's office said after an investigation of four field
offices, one resident agency and two headquarters components.
He added that "the amount of cheating that we identified in our
limited interviews cannot be extrapolated to the entire population of
FBI test-takers," but he urged the FBI to investigate further.
3.
Head Of Washington D.C. FBI Resigns In Shame
December 9. 2009
http://www.judiciaryreport.com/head_of_ ... _shame.htm4.
Showdown over Gascón’s secret evidence in SF corruption case
February 27, 2016
http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/mati ... 858771.phpSan Francisco District Attorney George Gascón (left) and FBI agent
David J. Johnson discuss the corruption case this month.
The bell rings Monday for round two of the San Francisco public
corruption saga in Superior Court.
In one corner: District Attorney George Gascón, who is trying to keep
a public lid on details of his case against two former city officials
and an ex-city staffer accused of bribery. In the other corner:
defense attorneys who say the district attorney is trying to hide
“nefarious” conduct by an undercover FBI agent at the center of the
case.
The agent “retired under a cloud of financial irregularity after an
investigation which resulted in him being taken off this case,” said
John Keker, the attorney representing former Human Right Commission
compliance officer Zula Jones.
Jones, along with former commission member Nazly Mohajer and ex-school
board President Keith Jackson, have been charged with bribery in
connection with an alleged “pay to play” scheme, in which the
undercover FBI agent funneled thousands of dollars in illegal
political donations to one or more unnamed local officials.
The case is a spin-off of a federal investigation into Chinatown gang
leader Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow that resulted in the convictions of
Jackson and former state Sen. Leland Yee on bribery and racketeering
charges.
Keker said he plans to tell Superior Court Judge Edward Torpoco at
Monday’s arraignment that the undercover agent who passed himself off
as an Atlanta developer ended up under investigation himself for
financial irregularities and retired. He’ll cite documents filed in
Chow’s trial.
“He comes into town and acts like a brother, and then throws around
lots of cash and acts like a big shot and gets people to do and say
stupid things,” Keker said. “He’s a menace. ... He is a danger to the
community.”
FBI spokesman Prentice Danner said the case is “ongoing with the
district attorney, and we don’t comment on ongoing litigation.”
Monday’s hearing comes a month after Gascón asked the judge to keep in
place a federal court’s gag order that has cloaked the case in
secrecy. That order kept some evidence from public view, on the
grounds that releasing it could endanger other undercover FBI agents,
compromise investigations or tarnish the names of people who were
targeted in the federal probe but were never charged.
FBI wiretaps that defense attorneys quoted in the Chow case allegedly
recorded Mohajer and Jones discussing $20,000 in contributions from
the undercover agent that would be broken into $500 checks to help pay
off Mayor Ed Lee’s 2011 campaign debt. Breaking up the $20,000 would
enable the money to go to Lee without appearing to violate individual
donation limits.
Posing as a developer looking for business in the city, the undercover
agent later got a meeting with Lee.
“You pay to play here,” Jones told the agent in a 2012 conversation,
according to court documents filed in the Chow case.
Lee has denied any wrongdoing or knowledge of the scheme.
“This stuff about protecting the mayor (as a reason for gag order) is
a bunch of bull, because there is nothing to protect,” Keker said.
The district attorney has agreed to make all the information available
to the defense attorneys, but only after they sign an agreement
barring them from making it public.
Public Defender Jeff Adachi’s office, which is representing Jackson,
will also argue for the gag order to be lifted.
“This whole idea that they can have this secretive process and put
everything under a protective order concerns me — and it should
concern everyone,” said assistant Public Defender Niki Solis.
“There were good reasons to have our affidavit sealed, and the judge
who reviewed the warrant agreed,” said district attorney spokesman
Alex Bastian.
“As the case proceeds in court, the evidence that supports the charges
will be presented in a public courtroom,” Bastian said.
In the neighborhood: That $2,700-a-head fundraiser the other day for
Hillary Clinton at the Piedmont home of East Bay developer Mike
Ghielmetti and his wife, Rebecca, was a packed affair. But not
everyone in town welcomed the Democratic presidential hopeful.
“It takes a lot of chutzpah for her to come to Chris Stevens’ hometown
to ask for money,” said Piedmont resident Larry Singer, a registered
Republican. He was referring to the Piedmont-reared ambassador to
Libya who was slain in the 2012 attack by militants on the U.S.
compound in Benghazi — an episode that critics have pinned