Is Hopsicker still credible after the whole "Mohammed Atta's girlfriend" thing?
Pretty sloppy article, too...
his research showed the Maldives had no extradition treaty with the U.S. And he was right., as far as it goes…
But despite the lack of a treaty, as soon as federal agents knew where he was, they sprung into action. An official at the State Department with a relationship with Maldivian police made some calls.
A Secret Service agent flew in from Thailand, another from Hawaii.
Just as he boarded his flight back to Russia, Maldivian police took Seleznev into custody.
FBI agents placed him under arrest and ushered him directly onto a chartered plane which took off on a 5000-mile-long flight to Guam, where he was immediately taken before a U.S. District judge.
Huh? A little more specificity on how the extra-legal extradition was accomplished would be helpful. Why would the Secret Service be involved, where did they go, and where did the FBI agents come from? Atrocious reporting even if the story is true.
A stereotypical Russian homophobe
A hackneyed tabloid slander...
an ecumenical drug trafficking organization pooling the skills of Israelis and Saudis
???[Edit: lol the usage went over my head but I thought about it more and now I get it ]Seleznev’s criminal pursuits were far from being victimless crimes. [...] When the once popular bistro closed, the owners blamed the credit card fraud for its demise.
Restaurants are prone to failure, even those that have been around for 20 years, and comments in the linked piece mention "Shitty food and even shittier service." Of course the owners will place blame; I'm just not ready to buy it based on the scant evidence presented.
Then there was the whole diversion about the Orlando shooting and alligator attack, neither of which have anything to do with Russian hackers. Get this guy an editor.
And finally, if anyone's wondering about the Russian text in the header photo...
ДЖИНСОН ДЖЕЙМС АНЧЕТА
Wikipedia wrote:Jeanson James Ancheta
On May 9, 2006, Jeanson James Ancheta (born 1985) became the first person to be charged for controlling large numbers of hijacked computers or botnets.
Ancheta is not otherwise mentioned, however. Anyway he's not even Russian but American.