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New Film Delves Into FBI Arrests of Youths for Terrorism Crimes ...



https://theintercept.com/2016/03/06/hom ... ht-commit/


The Intercept-5 hours ago
IN AN EARLY SCENE from the HBO documentary Homegrown, an FBI agent
describes his angst while tracking a teenager's engagement in ...


Blink Tank

Art Zone Shuffle: Stuart Dempster - YouTube
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNFOaHugGHI


Feb 1, 2013 - Uploaded by Seattle Channel
Experimental musician master, Stuart Dempster, shares a few thoughts
about music and the art ...


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http://nhv.us/content/16034751-nh-rep-s ... -home-raid

N.H. Rep. Susan DeLemus’ husband arrested in FBI home raid

Tea Party activist and husband of New Hampshire state Rep. Susan
DeLemus' husband Jerry DeLemus was arrested Friday morning in a FBI
home raid in connection with the 2014 Cliven Bundy standoff in Nevada.

Officials confirmed that DeLemus was arrested in a home raid by the
federal investigative agency on a total of nine charges related to his
participation in the years-old standoff with officers at Cliven
Bundy's Nevada ranch.

According to the FBI, DeLemus ran the makeshift "militia" of
conservatives to protect the Nevada ranch. Some of the men used by
DeLemus were allegedly armed with handguns and rifles.

New Hampshire GOP Chair Jack Kimball reported, "She [Rep. DeLemus]
said that the FBI just rolled up with lots of vehicles and Agents who
were in tactical gear. They forced their way into Jerry DeLemus and
Sue's condo with weapons drawn and arrested Jerry and took him away."

Calling DeLemus a 'good and Patriotic Marine,' Kimball said that he
considered the arrest unfair. He stressed that a good and


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http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/ind ... ents=focus

Indictment: Ex-Missouri deputy sexually abused women

Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 12:00 am Comments (1)

A former eastern Missouri sheriff’s deputy already facing state sex
crime charges is now accused in a federal indictment of sexually
abusing four women and enticing a minor into prostitution.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in St. Louis on Friday announced the
indictment against Marty Rainey, 52, of Sullivan. He could face up to
life in prison if convicted. Attempts to reach Rainey for comment were
unsuccessful; his phone number is unlisted and records indicate he
does not have an attorney.

Rainey was charged last year in state court with several sex crimes
related to the same investigation. A lawsuit filed by one woman
alleges she was drugged and sexually assaulted by Rainey, who had sent
her sexually suggestive texts after she called asking about a
protective order against her estranged husband.

Rainey was a deputy in Gasconade County but also worked at two small
police departments, in Hermann and Rosebud. The indictment alleges
that between June 2010 and March 2012, he committed aggravated sexual
abuse involving four women while serving in his capacity as a law
enforcement officer.

The indictment accuses Rainey of enticing a minor under the age of 18
to engage in prostitution in August 2012


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Navajo code deceiphered
means

2016 Palmer Raids De J- Vu

http://m.ndtv.com/world-news/uk-us-comm ... ds-1284495

UK, US Commandos In Secret Anti-Terror Training At Lord's
NDTV-March 6 2016
... operators from the US military's Delta Force and Navy SEALs and
the FBI to test how security forces would cope when faced with a new
generation of complex ...


4.

http://www.wyomingnews.com/news/inconsi ... 66baa.html

Inconsistent sexual assault kit testing a statewide issue in Idaho
Wyoming Tribune-March 6 2016
ISP's lab in Meridian is responsible for testing all kits from Idaho law enforcement agencies, with the exception of some that are tested at an FBI lab


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http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/27/siu.fb ... documents/

CNN exclusive: FBI misconduct reveals sex, lies and videotape
See show times »
The Situation Room
By Scott Zamost and Kyra Phillips, CNN Special Investigations Unit
January 27, 2011 10:07 a.m. EST
Click to play
FBI misconduct revealed
STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Internal documents obtained by CNN show misconduct by agents, supervisors
One document says one employee shared information with his news reporter girlfriend
More than 300 FBI employees out of 34,000 are disciplined each year, the bureau says
For more on this story, watch"The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer" tonight at 5 p.m. ET

Editor's note: Some content in this report may be offensive to readers. For more on this CNN exclusive story, watch Kyra Phillips' full report on "The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer" tonight starting at 6 p.m. ET.

Washington (CNN) -- An FBI employee shared confidential information with his girlfriend, who was a news reporter, then later threatened to release a sex tape the two had made.

A supervisor watched pornographic videos in his office during work hours while "satisfying himself."

And an employee in a "leadership position" misused a government database to check on two friends who were exotic dancers and allowed them into an FBI office after hours.

These are among confidential summaries of FBI disciplinary reports obtained by CNN, which describe misconduct by agency supervisors, agents and other employees over the last three years.

Read the FBI documents obtained by CNN

The reports, compiled by the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility, are e-mailed quarterly to FBI employees, but are not released to the public.

And despite the bureau's very strict screening procedure for all prospective employees, the FBI confirms that about 325 to 350 employees a year receive some kind of discipline, ranging from a reprimand to suspension.

About 30 employees each year are fired.

"We do have a no-tolerance policy," FBI Assistant Director Candice Will told CNN. "We don't tolerate our employees engaging in misconduct. We expect them to behave pursuant to the standards of conduct imposed on all FBI employees."

However, she said, "It doesn't mean that we fire everybody. You know, our employees are human, as we all are. We all make mistakes. So, our discipline is intended to reflect that.

"We understand that employees can make mistakes, will make mistakes

Match 8 2015

FBI Agents Under Investigation for Coverup in Shooting Death of LaVoy Finicum as New Video is Released from Inside Vehicle (Updated II)

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016 ... e-vehicle/


A new video recorded from inside the car driven by Robert “LaVoy” Finicum was released today, capturing the harrowing moments before, during and after he was shot to death in Oregon last January.

The United States Department of Justice also announced it is investigating a group of “elite” FBI agents for partaking in a coverup of the shooting, according to the Oregonian.

It turns out, one FBI agent shot his gun twice, but claimed he never fired his gun.

The USDOJ said those bullets did not strike the Arizona rancher, who had been part of a group of activists occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge throughout January.

Finicum, instead, was shot three times in the back by Oregon state police officers, including one bullet that pierced his heart.

The shooting death was ruled justified because the officers said they were in fear for their lives.

One of the bullets shot by the FBI agent struck his vehicle at a different angle than the other shots, which is what led investigators to determine he had lied.

UPDATE: Oregon Governor Kate Brown and state representative Greg Walden issued statements that they are troubled and concerned over the apparent lies concocted by this elite band of FBI agents.

According to KTVZ:



Oregon Gov. Kate Brown released the following statement Tuesday regarding the Robert Finicum officer-involved shooting investigation conducted by the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office:

“Any loss of life is regrettable, and I appreciate that the independent investigation into the actions of Oregon State Police was completed swiftly and thoroughly,”Brown said.

“Additional questions the investigation raised about the actions of federal agents who were also involved are troubling and properly the subject of an ongoing investigation.”

—

Rep. Greg Walden (R-Hood River) issued the following statement regarding the independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of LaVoy Finicum:

“This independent investigation gives us some answers to what happened, but leaves me disturbed and bewildered by the role of the FBI agents who are now under federal investigation themselves. Meanwhile, I will continue working with local officials to get results on the Steens Mountain fencing issue, federal reimbursement for the local policing costs, and to stop the monument designation in Malheur County, among other resource-related issues.”

UPDATE II: The Oregonian published an article contrasting the claims made by Tinicum’s supporters that he was murdered to the claims made by investigators.

One of the claims made by his supporters is that he had been shot on his left side, which is why he reached down towards his waistband.

But investigators

couple of reads about the FBI
Office of Professional Responsibility
and them policing very naughty
very,very special agents.

One stories is written by the FBI
Office of managing consent located
at the Washington Post.


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National Security
When FBI employees behave badly, the bureau lets their co-workers know

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/na ... story.html



March 11 2016. at 7:00 AM
In a recent two-year stretch, 126 FBI agents or employees were disciplined for offenses ranging from drinking and driving to sexual misconduct to misusing their government charge cards. Then their escapades — which represented just a fraction of the misconduct at the bureau — were broadcast for all their colleagues to see.

For years, the FBI has been sending out quarterly emails which describe, in fairly specific detail, individual incidents of employee misconduct and the penalties that followed. The tactic is now being embraced by other federal law enforcement agencies seeking to deter their workers from misbehaving.

A Secret Service spokesman said his agency publicizes individual malfeasance reports internally. Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz told the National Law Journal that last year he began posting short summaries of some investigations online. Officials at the Drug Enforcement Administration recently chatted with their counterparts at FBI about the initiative and hoped to start sending their own quarterly misconduct email later this year, a spokesman said.

[FBI agents under investigation in Oregon shooting]

Candice M. Will, an FBI assistant director who heads the Office of Professional Responsibility, said the email is “not intended to be a shaming document. It’s intended to be an instructive device.” But she concedes that fear of having your misdeeds publicized to co-workers could serve as a deterrent.

“This,” she said, “is the most-read internal document.”


There are pitfalls. The reports periodically make their way outside the confines of the bureau, leading to embarrassing news stories. In 2011, CNN reported on a host of misdeeds detailed in leaked reports, ranging from an employee threatening to release a sex tape he had made with his girlfriend to a supervisor watching porn in his office while “satisfying himself.” The news network obtained even more reports a few years later and broke news of a “rash of sexting” cases at the bureau.

The employees are not named in the reports, and Will said other information that could lead to their identities is removed. Some within the bureau bristle at the wide dissemination, while others say they’re glad to learn about the penalties for various wrongdoing, Will and other FBI officials said.

The Washington Post obtained two years worth of reports, running from 2013 into 2015, through a Freedom of Information Act request. The entire narrative section from each report was removed, leaving only a subject line and the discipline each employee received. Even those bare bones accounts, though, seemed to indicate serious instances of wrongdoing.

One employee was fired for assault and battery, DUI, misuse of position and failure to report. Another was let go for improper relationship with a source, sexual misconduct, misuse of a government computer, unprofessional conduct and unauthorized disclosure.

[How an FBI agent who arrested drug addicts became one himself]

Sixteen employees were disciplined for drinking and driving, 12 for misusing their position, 18 for showing a lack of candor and 11 for misusing FBI databases or government computers. Bureau officials declined to provide more details on any incidents.


A bureau spokesman said the incidents represented only a representative sample of the employees disciplined over that time period. Will said 351 complaints were investigated last year and 240 were substantiated in some way.

Reynaldo Tariche, an agent in the New York field office and president of the FBI Agents Association, said agents “believe that any misconduct is not acceptable and should not occur,” but he noted the bureau has tens of thousands of employees and only a few hundred incidents of misconduct each year.

“That’s a pretty small percentage,” he said.

Will said she started sending the emails years ago in hopes of educating bureau employees about the types of penalties that would come with misconduct. Real life examples, she figured, would have a more serious impact than hypothetical training scenarios.

“You read it, and it sticks to you,” she said.

Will said she believes the program works. Even if misconduct does not drop quarter to quarter, employees and managers tell her the emails help keep them informed. And, she said, they help send the message that the FBI has high behavior standards.
“I think if anyone had the impression you could get away with stuff here,” Will said, “this disavows them of that

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very special John Conditt, FBI Head of FBI Office of Professional Responsibility
likes having sex with 6 year old children. see previous story
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/was ... hief_x.htm

FBI internal affairs chief pleads guilty
WASHINGTON — The former chief internal watchdog at the FBI has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl and has admitted he had a history of molesting other children before he joined the bureau for a two-decade career.

John H. Conditt Jr., 53, who retired in 2001, was sentenced last Friday to 12 years in prison in Tarrant County court in Fort

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very special Edward Rodgers ,FBI head of Child Abuse program likes having sex with his 2 year old daughters


http://www.headwatersproductions.com/pr ... icle5.html

May 17, 1990
Sisters win sex lawsuit vs. dad $2.3 million given for years of abuse


Two daughters of former state and federal law enforcement official Edward Rodgers were awarded $2.319,400 yesterday, after a Denver judge and jury found that the women suffered years of abuse at the hands of their father.

The award to Sharon Simone, 45, and Susan Hammond, 44, followed testimony of Rodgers’ four daughters in person or through depositions, describing repeated physical abuse and sexual assaults by their father from 1944 through 1965.

Rodgers, 72, who became a child abuse expert after retiring from the FBI and joining the colorado Springs DA’s office, failed to appear for the trial. But in a deposition taken in March, Rodgers denied ever hitting or sexually abusing his children.

He admitted that he thought of himself as a "domineering s.o.b. who demanded strict responses from my children, strict obedience." But it never approached child abuse, Rodgers said. "Did I make mistakes? Damn right I did, just like any other father or mother..."

Thomas Gresham, Rodger’s former attorney, withdrew from the case recently after being unable to locate his client. Rodgers recently contacted one of his sons from a Texas town along the Mexican border. Gresham said his last contact with Rodgers was on April 24.

The sisters reacted quietly to the verdict, and with relief that their stories of abuse had finally been told.

"I feel really good that I’ve gone public with this,"Hammond said. "I am a victim, the shame isn’t mine, the horror happened to me. I’m not bad.
"My father did shameful and horrible things to me and my brothers and sisters. I don’t believe he is a shameful and horrible man, but he has to be held accountable," Hammond added.

The lawsuit deeply divided the Rodgers family, with Rodgers’ three sons questioning their sister’s motives.

Immediately after the verdict, son Steve Rodgers, 37, reacted angrily, yelling at his sisters in the courtroom.

Later, Rodgers said he loves his father and stands by him. He said his sisters had told him their father had to be exposed the way Nazi war criminals have been exposed.

"In a way I’m angry with my father for not being here. But I’m sympathetic because he would have walked into a gross crucifixion," Rodgers said.

Steve Rodgers never denied that he and his siblings were physically abused, but disputed that his father molested his sisters.
Before the jury’s award, Denver District Judge William Meyer found that Rodger’s conduct toward Simone and Hammond was negligent and "outrageous."

Despite the length of time since the abuse, the jury determined the sisters could legally bring the suit. The statute of limitations for a civil suit is two years, but jurors determined that the sisters became aware of he nature and extent of their injury only within the last two years, during therapy.

The jury then determined the damages, finding $1,240,000 for Simone and 1,079,000 for Hammond.

The sisters had alleged in their suit filed last July that Rodgers subjected his seven children to a "pattern of emotional, physical, sexual and incestual abuse."

As a result of the abuse, the women claimed their emotional lives had been left in a shambles, requiring extensive therapy for both and repeated hospitalizations of Hammond, who was acutely suicidal. Simone developed obsessive behavior and became so unable to function she resigned a position with a Boston-based college.

Despite the judgment yesterday, Rodgers cannot be criminally charged. the statue of limitations in Colorado for sexual assault on children is 10 years.
Rodgers, who worked for the FBI for 27 years, much of it in Denver, became chief investigator for the district attorney’s office in Colorado Sp;rings. during his employment at the DA’s office from 1967 until 1983, he became a well-known figure in Colorado Springs, and lectured and wrote about child abuse both locally and nationwide.

He wrote a manual called " A Compendium -- Child Abuse by the National College of District Attorney’s," and helped put together manuals on child abuse for the New York state police and a national child abuse center.

Bonus Read
5 or 6 stories

http://www.gossipextra.com/2016/03/14/m ... imes-5751/

CLUSIVE — FBI Agents Raid Sheriff Critic Mark Dougan’s House … Search For Evidence of Hacking, Computer Crimes!

March 14, 2016
The Palm Beach Gardens home of PBSO critic Mark Dougan, a frequent visitor to Russia, was raided this morning by FBI agents (Special to Gossip Extra)

The Palm Beach Gardens home of PBSO critic Mark Dougan, a frequent visitor to Russia, was raided this morning by FBI agents (Special to Gossip Extra)

flag-exclusivePALM BEACH GARDENS — FBI agents raided the Palm Beach Gardens home of Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office critic Mark Dougan this morning.

Dougan tells us he answered the door of his PGA townhouse about 7:30 a.m. this morning and was slammed to the ground.

About 10 agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation were still searching Dougan’s home about 10 a.m. Several squad cars from Palm Beach Gardens Police and PBSO were on standby.

“They slammed me to the ground as soon as I opened the door,” Dougan said. “They searched me for weapons then said something about looking for evidence of computer crimes and hacking.”

Dougan said the agents didn’t say what kind of case they’re working on.
Ric Bradshaw

Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw loves puppies, but do his deputies love people? (via Facebook)

A search of the federal court system shows no indictment or any other criminal action filed against Dougan.

Today’s development is particularly shocking: So happens that Dougan is a key witness in the lawsuit brought against PBSO by the family of Seth Adams, an unarmed civilian shot and killed by a PBSO sergeant in 2012. At trial, Dougan is expected to testify against the sergeant, Michael Custer.

The lawsuit has pointed to so many eye-popping “mistakes” in PBSO’s clearing of the sergeant that it could threaten Sheriff Ric Bradshaw‘s career.

— It’s yet another Gossip Extra scoop published while West Palm Beach’s out-of-town corporate media are still wondering what they’ll do today. Be the first to get the news you care about: Click here to subscribe to our daily news alerts!

Since he founded pbsotalk.com five years ago, Dougan has been a thorn in the side of PBSO.

The website publishes anonymous notes from deputies about inefficiencies and internal strife inside the 4,400-employee agency.
The warrant served today by FBI agents at the home of PBSO critic Mark Dougan (Special to Gossip Extra)

The warrant served today by FBI agents at the home of PBSO critic Mark Dougan (Special to Gossip Extra)

The sheriff, who is running for a fourth term, attempted to shut down the site several times and investigated former deputy Dougan but failed to file charges.

A civil lawsuit filed by PBSO First Deputy Chief Michael Gauger, who’s been the target of fake pbsotalk stories calling him a child molester, is pending.

Dougan’s campaign against PBSO ramped up late last year after Bradshaw announced he’d be running again.

Pbsotalk, which Dougan says he no longer owns, recently published tapes of conversations between a New York City woman and ex-PBSO Det. Mark Lewis in which Lewis admitted to being assigned to investigations into Bradshaw’s critics, including Dougan, a former candidate for sheriff and news reporters.

— EXCLUSIVE — Recordings of ex-PBSO detective show pattern of harassment, investigations into Sheriff Ric Bradshaw’s critics

Last month, pbsotalk posted the personal addresses of thousands of Palm Beach County law enforcement officials obtained by Russian hackers.






FBI agents destroying the Internet 101

WhatsApp Encryption Said to Stymie Wiretap Order
MARCH 12, 2016


Obama, at South by Southwest, Calls for Law Enforcement Access in
Encryption FightMARCH 11, 2016
Apple and U.S.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/us/po ... .html?_r=0

WASHINGTON — While the Justice Department wages a public fight with
Apple over access to a locked iPhone, government officials are
privately debating how to resolve a prolonged standoff with another
technology company, WhatsApp, over access to its popular instant
messaging application, officials and others involved in the case said.

No decision has been made, but a court fight with WhatsApp







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http://www.engadget.com/2016/03/14/mr-r ... interview/

Mr. Robot has an FBI consultant to make hacking look authentic
The creator of the show talks about Apple's encryption battle and the
theme for the second season.

March 14 2016

A long line of people snakes through the halls until it winds down a
flight of stairs. Over a thousand fans anxiously wait for the doors to
open inside the Austin Convention Center. They're here to see the
creator and lead actors of Mr. Robot, the most compelling TV show
about hackers in recent memory.

A little later, the crowd now settled inside a massive ballroom roars
as the Mr. Robot trio -- Sam Esmail, Rami Malek and Christian Slater
-- walked onto the stage at SXSW Interactive to talk about the
authenticity of coding in the psychological thriller. Dozens of
smartphone-wielding hands went up in the air to record the moment in
synchronicity.

Mr. Robot has made nerd culture popular. What seemed like a niche show
about computer geeks at the time went on to win Golden Globes and
Critics Choice awards this year. When it first aired on USA Network
last summer, it predictably drew in a thriller-loving audience while
the poignant portrayal of a deeply troubled hacker named Elliot
Alderson captivated more code-illiterate viewers. But, above all, Mr.
Robot connected widely with coders and hackers who finally found
accurate representation of their skills.

That connection is one of the main drivers of the show. "I grew up a
nerd," says Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail on stage at SXSW. "A lot of
my friends are nerds and coders in InfoSec. Some of them are hackers.
I made a poor attempt at hacking in college and was on academic
probation. I wanted to tell a story about that culture because I found
those people very interesting. I was watching all this cheesy crap --
TV shows and movies -- some of it I adore but they're not great at
representing who those people are and what that world looks like and
what hacking really is."

Mr. Robot tackles the world of hacking in a way that hasn't been done
in mainstream culture before. The show uses real codes that have gone
through a rigorous vetting process. Esmail works with tech experts
including people from InfoSec; a cyber security expert (who was
recently promoted to being a writer on the show); and an FBI crime
unit consultant to get the computer language right. They help ensure
that the plots are grounded firmly in reality.

"We go heavy on the tech details," Esmail says. "My production
designer hates me because



http://english.cri.cn/12394/2016/03/14/1821s920340.htm


Documentary Exposes U.S. Hypocrisy on Human Rights
2016-03-14 06:50:24 CRIENGLISH.com Web Editor: Xu Leiying

A Chinese documentary has highlighted the United States' double
standards on human rights-related issues.

The airing of the documentary comes just days after the US, along with
11 other countries, openly criticized China under the pretext of human
rights at the UN Human Rights Council.

The 45-minute TV program aired by the state-run China Central
Television reported evidence that the U.S. was trampling on the human
rights of its own people in all walks of life.

In one example, the documentary showed how the US Federal Bureau of
Investigation - the FBI - forced Internet companies to provide client
information without a court approval, while the country routinely
probed into other countries' private affairs.

The CCTV documentary was based on extensive media reports both inside
and outside the U.S., and included interviews with many human rights
experts from several countries.

One expert from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said the United
States was prone to being condescending, in the belief that it had the
best system, and best human rights record. As a result, the expert
said, America tended to find faul



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Deputy pleads guilty to child-porn distribution
B
Sunday March 13, 2016 1:25 PM

http://www.thisweeknews.com/content/sto ... ution.html

When federal agents searched Mark W. Wolfe's computer, they recovered
486 videos and 203 images of preteen girls and boys displaying their
genitals and in some cases having sex with adults.

Authorities said those weren't the worst discoveries.

Wolfe, 50, a former Delaware County Sheriff's deputy who served as
interim sheriff for five days in 2007, pleaded guilty Thursday, March
10, in U.S. District Court to one count of distribution of child
pornography. The charge carries a maximum 20-year prison term. The
plea agreement worked out by prosecutors


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Star DEA agent finds himself at center of sprawling probe as drug
task force comes under scrutiny
March 12 2013

http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/ne ... r-scrutiny


The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration for years considered Chad
Scott a golden boy among its special agents, a prolific narcotics
officer who earned countless plaudits for the DEA’s New Orleans field
division. Others knew him as a champion waterskier, a tan, blond boss
of the single ski.

His legend extended to the world of drug traffickers, where Scott
styled himself the “white devil,” a ruthless cop who strong-armed
informants and boasted to suspects that he was “the baddest (mother)”
along the Interstate 12 corridor.

One dealer loathed Scott so much that he hatched a plan to have the
agent executed for $15,000.

Scarface, a popular Houston rapper, name-checked Scott in a
controversial album that taunted the DEA — music the brash agent liked
to play at high volume following drug arrests.

Some colleagues, though, thought Scott — now at the center of a
widening investigation — played fast and loose with the rules, even
comparing him to the crooked detective played by Denzel Washington in
the movie “Training Day.”

http://whosarat.websitetoolbox.com/post ... us-6184527

also see


FBI Octupus


http://m.digitaljournal.com/pr/2870643


AmeriGas Partners Elects John R. Hartmann to Its BoaDirectorsVALLEY
FORGE, Pa.--AmeriGas Partners, L.P. (NYSE:APU) reported today that
John R. Hartmann, 52, was elected a director of AmeriGas Propane,
Inc., the general partner of AmeriGas Partners, L.P., effective March
15, 2016. Mr. Hartmann currently serves as President and Chief
Executive Officer of True Value Company, a private retailer-owned
hardware cooperative, a position that he has held since 2013.

John L. Walsh, Chairman of AmeriGas Propane Inc., said, “We are
excited to welcome John Hartmann to our Board of Directors. John’s
extensive business experience, particularly with respect to his
expertise in the retail sector, will be a valuable asset to the
AmeriGas board and our leadership team.”

Prior to becoming Chief Executive Officer and President of True Value
Company, Mr. Hartmann served as the Chief Executive Officer of Mitre
10, a major chain of home improvement stores in New Zealand, from 2010
to 2013. From 2002 to 2010, Mr. Hartmann held a number of senior
executive leadership positions at The Home Depot and HD Supply,
including Director of Strategic Business Development, Senior Director
of Long-Range Planning & Strategy, Vice President of Operations &
Sourcing, and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Hartmann also previously
served as Vice President, Corporate Services at Cardinal Health, a
worldwide healthcare services and products company, from 1998 to 2002,
and was a Supervisory Special Agent and FBI Academy Instructor with
the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1988 to 1998.

Mr. Hartmann holds a Bachelor of Science from Rochester Institute of
Technology and a Juris Doctor from the Syracuse University College of
Law.

About AmeriGas Partners, L.P.

AmeriGas is the nation’s largest retail propane marketer, serving
approximately two million customers in a


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http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-stando ... _from.html
Bullet casings disappear from LaVoy Finicum shooting scene ...
OregonLive.com-March 15 2015
Two bullet casings that might have proven an FBI agent shot at Robert
"LaVoy" Finicum apparently disappeared from the scene shortly after
the Jan. 26 highway ...

2.

Three Deputies Sentenced in 2012 Bainbridge Bikefest Incident

http://www.wtxl.com/news/three-deputies ... f5d4e.html

ALBANY, GA - The Department of Justice has sentenced three deputies
involved in a beating at the 2012 Bikefest in Bainbridge.

According to the Department of Justice, Decatur County Deputies Chris
Kines and Wade Umbach were sentenced to 15 months in prison along with
two years probation. They were each convicted of engaging in
misleading conduct

Deputy Elizabeth Croley was sentenced to 18 months in prison along
with two years probation. Croley was convicted of obstructing justice
along with violating the constitutional rights of Aaron Parish and
intentionally withholding evidence, the state attorney's office said.



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http://obrag.org/?p=104815


San Diego Police and FBI Drove Local Black Panthers Underground

by Frank Gormlie on March 15, 2016 · 2 comments

in California, Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights, Culture, History,
Media, Organizing, Politics, San Diego
black panthers U-TUnion-Tribune Finally “Finds” San Diego’s Black
Panthers

In a very decent February 28 article about San Diego’s Black Panthers
penned by Peter Rowe of the San Diego U-T, some of the city’s
turbulent civil rights and Black power movement history from the
Sixties and Seventies was uncovered.

First, it’s amazing to some San Diegans, including Rowe, that San
Diego even had a Black Panther chapter back in the day. And that’s a
credit that the San Diego Union and Tribune themselves can claim, for
the coverage of local Panthers and the civil rights movement in
general was skewed due to the right-wing – and yes, racist – policies
and bias of its owners and editors. Think the Copley family, who ran
the city’s only pair of dailies for decades.

But now thanks to Rowe, some of this history has been dusted off and
bared for all to read. Much of the article recounts the experiences of
one Henry Lee Wallace, now 64 and still in San Diego, but back then, a
member of the local Panthers.

Wallace told Rowe, that:

“San Diego has never wanted to recognize its history within the civil
rights movement, especially the Black Panthers.”

In an accompanying article, Rowe tells how the reporter found out
about surviving members of the local Panthers by a fluke, when a U-T
photographer met Wallace, who is now a musician and bus-driver, in an
unrelated story. Fortunately for us, Rowe followed it up, and
interviewed the former chapter member.

Much like the current Black Lives Matter movement, fifty years ago,
the Black Panther Party demanded an end to discrimination against
African-Americans and wanted a crackdown on abusive police.

And Rowe adds, that the Panthers still have survived “as a potent
symbol”.

There are echoes in pop culture: During the Super Bowl halftime show,
Beyoncé performed with dancers in Panther-style berets and leather
coats. On the street: The “Black Lives Matter” movement revives a key
part of the Panthers’ agenda, arguing that law enforcement still
violently targets African-Americans.

Even on television: Public Broadcasting recently aired a new
documentary, “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.”

Plus, we find out that Wallace and other local former Panthers are
assisting a filmmaker, Cheryl Morrow, in making a documentary,
“American Patriots: The San Diego Chapter of the Black Panthers,”
which is planned for completion this month.

Wallace joined the Panthers in the late Sixties, along with his
stepfather and mother and siblings, having been recruited by its
leader, Kenny Denmon, whom Rowe calls “a fiery San Diego State
University student enlisted by the Panthers’ national spokesman,
Eldridge Cleaver.”

Rowe was surprised to learn that the Panthers, despite their militant
image,

… had an ambitious social program. They started schools, supplied
groceries to seniors and operated a free breakfast program that, at
its height, fed 20,000 children a day (nationally).

In San Diego, the Panthers served breakfasts in the parish hall of
Christ the King church, at first, then moved the program to a quieter
area. They also began what they called “freedom schools”for Black
kids and tried to instill pride and self-worth into the children. Rowe
found that many in the Southeast neighborhood –

… still applaud the Panthers, citing the free breakfasts, the baskets
of groceries, the willingness to campaign for black political
candidates and to oppose police brutality.

So, what happened to the Black Panthers of San Diego?

Rowe racks it all up to “internal schisms and external pressure” –
that the local Panthers disagreed with another local Black nationalist
group, and had shoot-outs with them, and 2 local Panthers were killed.
Plus the FBI claimed credit for forcing the chapter to be defunct.

But what Rowe misses is the emphasis of history. And it’s this:

Local San Diego police – and the FBI – literally drove the Black
Panthers underground. With daily harassment, arrests, jailings of its
members, city cops did their best to ensure that local members
couldn’t walk children across the street or drive across the city
without being stopped by San Diego police. If a cop saw a Black
Panther bumpersticker on a car, that car would be stopped and its
occupants probably arrested.

No one outside the Panthers knew this better than local attorney
Charles “Ted” Bumer, who took on their many cases, usually pro bono,
and tried to defend them from a law enforcement and criminal justice
system that was out and out racist.

Local legal worker Kathy Gilberd used to work for Ted Bumer after he
helped the Panthers, but he shared some of his experiences with her.
“Ted used to tell me some of the stories when he worked with the
Panthers doing draft counseling in the Black community,” she said.
Bumer was the movement lawyer for San Diego.

From the local gerdames to the FBI’s COINTELPRO Program, the Panthers
were forced out of San Diego, at least, from being public. Nationally,
cops were involved in numerous shoot-outs with Panthers, such as in
Chicago and Los Angeles. Panther leaders were assassinated by police
in some cities.

But here in San Diego, chapter members had to refrain from doing
things publicly and openly. Partially because there’s never been a
large African-American community in San Diego, local Panthers could
not draw upon the support that larger cities provided.

Rowe provides:

In retrospect, though, it became evident that much of this violence
was incited by the FBI. Under then-director J. Edgar Hoover, a
counter-intelligence program dubbed COINTELPRO worked to discredit
many “hate groups,” with the Panthers leading the list.

Congressional investigations into COINTELPRO revealed that the FBI
tried to stir up hostility between the Panthers and US, a black power
group embracing a pan-African philosophy. During a January 1969
skirmish on the UCLA campus, two Panthers were shot to death by US
members.

Later, three more members of the different Black groups were gunned
down in this FBI-fueled rivalry.

In the end, as Rowe recounts, the FBI took credit.

“San Diego has aggressively pursued a policy of disrupting and
neutralizing the local chapter of the BPP in San Diego through
Bureau-approved counterintelligence maneuvers,” an agency memo
reported in March 1969. The memo added, “it appears that Special Agent
personnel may merit some sort of recognition.”

It is now very clear that the local San Diego Black Panthers didn’t
just fall victim to “rivalries” with other groups and from “internal
schisms” (they had them), but were consciously and intentionally
driven from sight by law enforcement, the local cops and the FBI.

And with the handmaiden work by the local establishment press, the
twins San Diego Union and Evening Tribune, no one knew what was really
going on. It’s fairly recognized now that the earlier renditions of
our current monopoly daily were publications that gave San Diego the
nickname of “Little Mississippi” – understood all too well by the
African-American community.

At least now, Peter Rowe has taken it upon himself to tell some of
this story. We certainly applaud his efforts, but need to remind him
of the true reasons San Diego lost their Black Panthers. How do I
know? I was there – I was p



4.

Lawmaker Who Was CIA Agent Wants Big Data, Not Apple’s Encryption
Jenna McLaughlin

Mar. 15 2016, 12:36 p.m.
https://theintercept.com/2016/03/15/law ... ncryption/

A former undercover CIA agent turned congressman says the FBI — by
trying to force Apple to defeat its own security protocols — is
barking up the wrong tree.

The FBI has demanded that Apple help it unlock a phone used by San
Bernardino killer Syed Rizwan Farook, but Apple is refusing for the
sake of its customers’ cybersecurity and privacy.

Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, said Tuesday that the FBI request might be
too intrusive. He said there’s a way to “protect our civil liberties


5. two stories in 1

1.
Alarming Artifact Loot from Archaeological Sites Signals Giant Loss
...
March 15 2016
In 2009, the FBI arrested over 20 people on the charge of sneaking
antique artifacts ... In the words of FBI Supervisory Special Agent
Drew Northern – “The illicit ...

2.

http://nypost.com/2004/03/21/feds-wtc-p ... s-looting/

FEDS’ WTC PLUNDER; FBI LADY BLOWS LID OFF AGENTS’ LOOTING

http://nypost.com/2004/03/21/feds-wtc-p ... s-looting/

March 21, 2004 | 5:00am

EVERYBODY does it.

That’s the response Jane Turner got when she told federal
investigators that a fellow FBI agent had stolen a Tiffany globe found
at the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

In a meeting, two agents from the U.S. Department of Justice inspector
general’s office said they already knew personnel had taken property
from Ground Zero.

“What do you expect – that we go into every FBI office to retrieve
trinkets?” Turner quoted the agents as saying, according to a document
obtained by The Post.

The inspector general’s office did go on to investigate Turner’s
allegations – and found that “many FBI employees” took “souvenirs”
from the WTC site and the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, where
Ground Zero rubble was sifted for body parts, personal belongings and
evidence.

The “souvenirs” the agents stole included a mangled fork, a broken
figurine of a police officer, a small metal plate and keys that read
“WTC,” “WTC Security” patches that were found on shirtsleeves, and a
WTC Christmas ornament.



One of the agents had taken more than 70 pounds of debris from Fresh
Kills, keeping some and doling out the rest to friends, relatives and
colleagues, the report says.

And it wasn’t the first time something like this had happened – the
report found FBI agents had helped themselves to keepsakes in other
infamous cases, including the Oklahoma City bombing and the Unabomber.

Turner, 53, of Minneapolis, told The Post she thought twice about
coming forward with the information that resulted in citations of
misconduct against two FBI agents and the discovery of widespread
removal of grisly mementos from Ground Zero by FBI personnel.

“Did I really want to end my career over a stupid crystal ball?” she
asked herself.

Turner noticed the chipped, cracked globe displayed on a holder while
walking by a FBI secretary’s desk in 2002. She told the secretary it
was “interesting.”

“It came from Ground Zero!” the secretary boasted, saying an FBI agent
had brought it back from New York.

But, the secretary mused, “It kind of gives me the creeps, because the
person who owned it is probably dead.”

He was. It wasn’t until last week, when the paperweight was shown on a
newscast about the scandal, that the apparent owner was identified.

Adele Milanowycz of Cranford, N.J., said it belonged to her son
Gregory, 25, who kept the gift from his girlfriend on his desk at Aon
Corp. on the WTC’s 93rd floor.

Milanowycz sent letters requesting the return of the globe a week ago,
a plea that was seconded by her state’s senators, but she has yet to
hear back from the FBI or Justice Department.

“I think they should try to get back everything that was stolen, even
if they have to offer amnesty to people,” she told The Post.

TURNER said she finally decided to report the globe not just because
it probably belonged to a 9/11 victim, but because it could torpedo a
criminal case on which she had been working.

She had just finished investigating Kieger Enterprises, a

As a smart criminal justice consumer
you now understand FBI agents covered
up the Bill /Hillary Clinton assassination
of Vince Foster.


2 stories about the FBI.
One is FBI spin

1.



http://www.breitbart.com/big-government ... read-this/


CSPAN: Legal Expert Holds Up Copy of ‘Clinton Cash,’ ‘FBI Agents Are Required to Read This’
Audiobook Cover

18 Mar 2016

In a Friday interview on C-SPAN, former U.S. Attorney for the District of Colombia Joseph diGenova held up a copy of Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich and said, “I know from conversations with former FBI agents that the FBI, believe it or not, has a copy of this book, Clinton Cash.”

“And they have delved into it deeply,” diGenova said about the federal agents currently investigating the multiple email accounts and the private server that then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton and her aids used to conduct official government business while she was in office.




2.

http://www.fbicover-up.com

Welcome to our website about the murder of Vince Foster, Deputy White House Counsel under President Clinton. A federal court ordered Independent Counsel Ken Starr to include evidence, found in government records, of an FBI cover-up, to Starr’s own Report. Hillary Clinton remains silent about this evidence, submitted to the court by Patrick Knowlton, John Clarke, and Hugh Turley.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/48-hours-di ... f-defense/

Did an FBI agent shoot his wife in self-defense

March 22 2016

http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/ ... sion-trial

FBI agent faces gun-possession trial

Updated Tuesday, March 22nd 2016 at 10:48 GM
FBI Agent Richardson Clyde Roller and Mercy Shirley Mwendwa at Mombasa Court.

A former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent was Monday charged in Mombasa, alongside his wife, with illegal possession of firearms.

Richard Clyde Rollier (left) and his Kenyan wife Mercy Shirley Mwendwa, who were arrested on Saturday, were charged with possession of two stun guns without lawful authority.

They denied the charges when they appeared before Chief Magistrate Susan Shitubi and were released on a Sh500,000 bond with a similar surety.

The two were arrested while at their home in Nyali, Mombasa, according to police records.

The magistrate directed the American to deposit his passport with the court and report to the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) once a month.

"Considering your citizenship, you shall deposit your passport with the court and report to the ATPU once per month," directed Ms Shitubi.
See also: A team in the EPL’s TOP FOUR is the worst at shooting from long range

Prosecutor Sarah Ogweno opposed bail, saying the American was likely to leave the court's jurisdiction if freed pending trial.

"If the accused is granted bail, he should report to the CID offices in Mombasa and go to the ATPU," said Ms Ogweno.

According to the police reports, the American was arrested for the second time in a month over the alleged importation of banned goods.

The retired FBI agent, who came to Kenya 11 years ago, has been under police investigation for possession of explosives.

Bonus read


March 22 2016

http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/ ... sion-trial

FBI agent faces gun-possession trial

Updated Tuesday, March 22nd 2016 at 10:48 GM
FBI Agent Richardson Clyde Roller and Mercy Shirley Mwendwa at Mombasa
Court.

A former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent was Monday
charged in Mombasa, alongside his wife, with illegal possession of
firearms.

Richard Clyde Rollier (left) and his Kenyan wife Mercy Shirley
Mwendwa, who were arrested on Saturday, were charged with possession
of two stun guns without lawful authority.

They denied the charges when they appeared before Chief Magistrate
Susan Shitubi and were released on a Sh500,000 bond with a similar
surety.

The two were arrested while at their home in Nyali, Mombasa, according
to police records.

The magistrate directed the American to deposit his passport with the
court and report to the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) once a
month.

"Considering your citizenship, you shall deposit your passport with
the court and report to the ATPU once per month," directed Ms Shitubi.
See also: A team in the EPL’s TOP FOUR is the worst at shooting from
long range

Prosecutor Sarah Ogweno opposed bail, saying the American was likely
to leave the court's jurisdiction if freed pending trial.

"If the accused is granted bail, he should report to the CID offices
in Mombasa and go to the ATPU," said Ms Ogweno.

According to the police reports, the American was arrested for the
second time in a month over the alleged importation of banned goods.

The retired FBI agent, who came to Kenya 11 years ago, has been under
police investigation for possession of explosives.


Link du jour

https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... -scientist



1.





Top adviser to Richard Nixon admitted that ‘War on Drugs’ was policy
tool to go after anti-war protesters and ‘black people’

Updated: Tuesday, March 22, 2016, 9:28 PM

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... -1.2573832

Nixon aide: 'War on Drugs' was tool to target 'black people'

The “War on Drugs” was actually a political tool to crush leftist
protesters and black people, a former Nixon White House adviser
admitted in a decades-old interview published Tuesday.

John Ehrlichman, who served as President Richard Nixon’s domestic
policy chief, laid bare the sinister use of his boss’ controversial
policy in a 1994 interview with journalist Dan Baum that the writer
revisited in a new article for Harper’s magazine.

“You want to know what this was really all about,” Ehrlichman, who
died in 1999, said in the interview after Baum asked him about Nixon’s
harsh anti-drug policies.

“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had
two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what
I’m saying,” Ehrlichman continued.

“We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or
black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with
marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily,
we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders,
raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after
night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs?
Of course we did.”

Ehrlichman served 18 months in prison after being convicted of
conspiracy and perjury for his role in the Watergate scandal that
toppled his boss.
John D. Ehrlichman (l.), a top adviser to former President Richard
Nixon (r.) is seen here in a 1972 photo. Ehrlichman, who died in 1999,
admitted that the administration’s "War on Drugs" was actually a ploy
to target left-wing protesters and African-Americans. ASSOCIATED PRESS
John D. Ehrlichman (l.), a top adviser to former President Richard
Nixon (r.) is seen here in a 1972 photo. Ehrlichman, who died in 1999,
admitted that the administration’s "War on Drugs" was actually a ploy
to target left-wing protesters and African-Americans.

The Rev. Al Sharpton said Ehrlichman’s comments proved what black
people had believed for decades.

“This is a frightening confirmation of what many of us have been
saying for years. That this was a real attempt by government to
demonize and criminalize a race of people,” Sharpton told the Daily
News. “And when we would raise the questions over that targeting, we
were accused of all kind of things, from harboring criminality to
being un-American and trying to politicize a legitimate concern.”

PROTESTERS RIP DEA OVER 'WASTEFUL' DRUG WAR, IMPRISONMENTS

In 1971, Nixon labeled drug abuse “Public Enemy No. 1” and signed the
Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act, putting into
place several new laws that cracked down on drug users. He also
created the Drug Enforcement Administration.

By 1973, about 300,000 people were being arrested every year under the
law — the majority of whom were African-American.

Anti-war demonstrators in 1970 image.

The drug war was continued in various forms by every President since,
including President Ronald Reagan, whose wife Nancy called for people
to “Just say no.”

Ehrlichman’s 22-year-old comments resurfaced Tuesday after Baum wrote
about them in a cover story for the April issue of Harper’s, titled
“Legalize It All,” in which he argues in favor of legalizing hard
drugs.

The original 1994 interview with Ehrlichman was part of Baum’s
research for his 1997 book, “Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and
the Politics of Failure,” in which Baum laid bare decades of
unsuccessful drug policy.

But the quotes never appeared in the book.

Baum said Tuesday he excluded the jaw-dropping quotes because they
“didn’t fit.”
NYPD arrests a member of the Black Panthers for refusing to clear a
sidewalk during a demonstration.

NYPD arrests a member of the Black Panthers for refusing to clear a
sidewalk during a demonstration.

Anti-war demonstrators in Washington on May 9, 1970.
Enlarge

“There are no authorial interviews in (‘Smoke and Mirrors’) at all;
it’s written to put the reader in the room as events transpire,” Baum
told The Huffington Post via email. “Therefore, the quote didn’t fit.
It did change all the reporting I did for the book, though, and
changed the way I worked thereafter.”

The shocking interview with Ehrlichman later surfaced in a 2012
compendium of “wild, poignant, life-changing stories” from various
writers titled “The Moment,” but the quotes received little media
attention.

Many politicos have surmised that Ehrlichman, who would die five years
later, made the stark revelations because he was angry Nixon never
pardoned him of his Watergate-related offenses.




2.




March 22 2016




City & Region
Bookstore owner turns tables, questions why he was target of FBI probe
Bookstore owner was target of 2-year investigation



Theresa Baker-Pickering and her husband, Leslie Pickering, have
learned that they were the subjects of an FBI investigation.
on March 17, 2016 - 8:06 PM, updated March 18, 2016 at 6:29 AM

http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/ ... e-20160317


Pickering, long a target of the FBI, turns his story into an art
exhibit
FBI asked for tracking of Pickering mail in 2012
Former Earth Liberation Front spokesman files federal suit for
information from FBI



The FBI kept tabs on a Buffalo bookstore owner for two years.

Agents watched Leslie Pickering’s home and store, monitored his mail
and used grand jury subpoenas to gather information about him.

At the core of the investigation was the allegation, still unproven,
that Pickering, a longtime environmental activist, was operating an
eco-terrorism cell out of Burning Books, his West Side bookstore.

The investigation turned up no evidence of a threat and was shut down
after a confidential informant recanted part of her story, according
to newly released FBI documents


3.

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Tuesday, March 22, 2016 9:39 AM
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Argument ‘over nothing’ led to FBI employee’s gun arrest




March 24, 2016

An argument “over nothing” between two women at a Hingham restaurant erupted into an armed confrontation this week as the FBI employee sitting between them put a gun to one of their heads, according to court documents.

A police report filed in Hingham District Court describes how the Tuesday night incident at Gourmet Garden restaurant unfolded, leading to the arrest of James M. Doyle of Duxbury, who told police that he is a supervisor at the federal agency and a friend of the victim.

He acknowledged that he had pointed the gun at one of the women, the report

Friday, March 25, 2016Last Update: 11:54 AM PT

Anti-War Editors Test FBI's 'Threat Assessments'


http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/03/2 ... sments.htm


SAN FRANCISCO - The FBI's power to investigate people based purely on their speech was tested in a Federal Court hearing Thursday, with the judge seemingly inclined to side with the feds on the issue.
Two antiwar news editors who sued the FBI in 2013 say the decision to investigate them lacked a legitimate law-enforcement purpose and files on them should therefore be purged.
Dennis Joseph Raimondo aka Justin Raimondo and Eric Anthony Garris, editors of the Antiwar.com news site, sued the FBI in 2013 for allegedly brushing off their FOIA requests and violating the Privacy Act.
The Privacy Act requires the government only hold information on people that is "relevant and necessary to accomplish a purpose of the agency."
The editors say the FBI had no legitimate basis to suspect them of any criminal wrongdoing and that they were investigated purely because of their First Amendment activities.
They also say the FBI improperly invoked exemptions to withhold redacted portions of files it released after the suit was filed three years ago.
Three FBI memos from 2004, 2002 and 1972 were the focus of debate between civil rights attorneys and the government during Thursday's hearing on dueling motions for summary judgment.
The first file at issue was a threat assessment conducted on the two editors

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Dedicated to combating the rape of male and female prisoners and providing such assistance as they can to survivors of jailhouse rape.






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Who are the criminals? Not WikiLeaks – Mass Surveillance & trust in the hands of criminals – part 4
by Gerry Georgatos
March 27th, 2016
WikiLeaks published diplomatic cables from Cairo with the head of Egypt’s State Security Investigative Service thanking the FBI deputy director for FBI training sessions in Quantico, Virginia. SSIS operatives were trained as ‘interrogators’. SISS interrogators tortured prisoners with “electric shocks and sleep deprivation to reduce them to a zombie state.”

WikiLeaks published the National Humint Collection Directive – a secret document – signed by then Secretary of State and current presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton. She authorised the collecting of biometric information from UN officials – including DNA samples. In addition the credit card information



DC Comics History: Federal Agent (1948 - 1951: End of an Era)
Comic Book Bin-


http://www.comicbookbin.com/Federal_Agent002.html

The two Federal Agent stories in Gangbusters appeared in 1948. ... But as their series ends at this point, I think the FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover, had the same ...



http://www.correctionsone.com/arrests-a ... ndictment/

Former CO faces federal sex indictment
A conviction of that federal law carries with it a maximum sentence of life in prison

March 27 2016

Dayton Daily News

DAYTON, Ohio — Former Butler County corrections officer Kyle R. Jordan has been charged with engaging in a sex act with a person “who was incapable of appraising the nature of the conduct,” according to federal court records.





http://www.cdapress.com/news/life_style ... l?mode=jqm


Newly formed branch presidency

LDS News | Posted 20 hours ago

Robert A. Davis, of Coeur d’Alene, was recently called as the new Branch President of the Coeur d’Alene Young Single Adult Branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He and his wife, Linda, are the parents of 10 children and 29 grandchildren and have lived in the area for the past 17 years. Bob is originally from California, where he was raised, and graduated from Robert A. Millikan High School in Long Beach. He attended Brigham Young University where he played four years of division one basketball. President Davis, Linda and their son, Tim served in the Church Education System (CES) in the Spokane Mission from 2008-2010. He served as a Special Agent and a Supervisory Special Agent during his 35-year career with the FBI and currently is the owner of Professional Investigators International (Pii) of Liberty Lake, Wash.


http://helenair.com/news/state-and-regi ... 08845.html

Unabomber case helped hone Supreme Court nominee’s legal skills

JAMES ROWLEY Bloomberg News (TNS) 3 hrs ago 0

WASHINGTON — The killer known as the Unabomber was methodical, patient and meticulous. So was the U.S. Justice Department official who directed the investigation that took him down.

Former colleagues of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland cite his legal skills in the courtroom and in overseeing the mid-1990s Unabomber and Oklahoma City bombing investigations as evidence that pragmatism and common sense, not an elaborate constitutional philosophy, would guide his decisions as an associate justice.

Garland led the investigation task force and helped make “the hard decision” to ask The Washington Post and The New York Times to agree to publish the Unabomber’s 35,000-word manifesto, said former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick. That led to the arrest of Theodore Kaczynski after his brother recognized the writing style and alerted the FBI.

“He is smart, smart, smart — he blends the theoretical and the professorial part of the law with the retail aspect,” Marshall Jarrett, a retired Justice Department official who helped recruit Garland for the U.S. attorney’s office, said of the nominee. Garland’s experience as a courtroom prosecutor and later as a senior Justice Department official makes him “attuned to the kinds of issues faced in criminal law enforcement,” said Jarrett.

Even as they laud Garland’s temperament and legal ability, these former colleagues are unlikely to get a chance to sing his praises at a confirmation hearing any time soon. Garland’s nomination is turning into a bitter contest between President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans, who say the next occupant of the White House should choose who succeeds the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

The White House and Senate Democrats have helped outside groups organize political protests to pressure vulnerable Senate Republicans seeking re-election to abandon the confirmation blockade announced by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell within an hour after the court confirmed Scalia’s death on Feb. 13.

As a senior Justice Department official, Garland had the ability “to bring very different types of people together in a common effort from the Oklahoma City bombing investigation to the very challenging Unabomber case,” said Gorelick. Garland was her principal deputy when the government prosecuted the two domestic terrorism cases.

“He has seen the effect of the devastation of crime on communities up close; he has worked with witnesses and victims as much as anyone” on the Supreme Court, Gorelick said in an interview.

Garland, 63, an appeals court judge since 1997, demonstrated early promise as a trial lawyer in 1988 as part of a team of private lawyers who helped win a $112 million civil judgment over the failure of a Maryland thrift institution. His insistence on examining only original records — not just photocopies — paid off when lawyers found a document on which someone had used white correction fluid to change a date.

With the document in evidence, Garland asked the trial judge to turn off the courtroom lights so jurors could see the fraud for themselves. “The real date came shining through” as jurors, one by one, held a flashlight behind the paper, said Philip Horton, a lawyer on the case.

“You could see from the looks on the jurors faces” that “the case is over,” Horton said. “This was the smoking gun to end all smoking guns.”

Garland learned the ropes of criminal law during a three-year stint as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, a job he took in 1989 after leaving a partnership at the prestigious law firm of Arnold & Porter. He prosecuted violent drug gangs, government-contract fraud and corruption.

His attention to detail, management skill and legal judgment were tested in Oklahoma City after the April 19, 1995, truck bombing of a federal government building killed 168 people, including 19 children in the building’s day-care center.

Garland persuaded Gorelick to send him to the crime scene, where he coordinated the Justice Department’s investigative efforts to identify and arrest Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the two home-grown terrorists convicted of the bombing. McVeigh was executed in 2001 and Nichols was sentenced to 161 consecutive life terms.

Garland showed compassion for the victims’ families while maintaining a critical perspective of the evidence and legal pitfalls in the case, Beth Wilkinson, one of the prosecutors in the McVeigh case, said in a 2010 interview when Garland was on Obama’s short list for another Supreme Court vacancy.

“He lived the case” yet “he was still able to step back and be a thoughtful and fair advocate, ask us questions a judge might ask us,” she said. “He has that kind of judicial temperament and real empathy and understanding” of the attack’s impact on the people of Oklahoma City, she said. “He believes that working on that case changed him."

To be sure, Garland’s opinions on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit have earned him a reputation as “not being particularly sympathetic to criminal defendants,” Jonathan Adler, a law professor at Case Western Reserve Law School in Cleveland, said in an interview.

Herman Schwartz, a law professor at American University in Washington, said he joins Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in thinking “we could do better” than Garland and find someone who isn’t as pro-government on criminal and national security cases.

Schwartz said Garland “unforgivably” voted with two Republican-appointed appeals court judges in 2003 to rule that 12 detainees captured in Afghanistan couldn’t challenge their incarceration at Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba in U.S. courts. That decision, later reversed by the Supreme Court, held in effect that “Guantanamo was a
NEWS
New Eliot officers settle in
Officer Isaac Delabruere of the Eliot, Maine, Police Department. Photo by Ralph Morang

http://www.fosters.com/article/20160327/NEWS/160329459
Posted Mar 27, 2016 at 6:00 PM

ELIOT, Maine – The Police Department has new faces in its ranks.

Officer Patrick Roy, 29, joined the force last August. After completing his 18-month training at the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in Vassalboro, and field training in Eliot, he is now a fully qualified police officer.

Roy attended York County Community College and formerly worked for First Protection Services in Scarborough. His wife, Ashleigh, is a teacher at Marshwood Middle School. He said his interest in law enforcement was nurtured by his wife’s relatives, who are in law enforcement.

He said his goals are to become a K9 officer and work in drug enforcement.

Officer Isaac Delabruere, 30, joined last June. He grew up in Vermont, near the Canadian border.

After earning a degree in criminal justice from the New Hampshire Technical Institute, he joined the New Hampshire National Guard as a military policeman. He was deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan.

In the Guard, he met the son of Eliot Police Chief Theodor Short, Ryan Short, who persuaded him to apply to the Eliot department. Since joining, he has completed FBI crisis negotiation training in Massachusetts.

He has completed the academy course and field training.

Delabruere said his goal is to move up in the ranks and to become a detective and sergeant. He is single and lives in Stratham, New Hampshire.

Citizens Police Academy

Lt. Elliot Moya has announced another Citizens Police Academy will be held from May 5 to June 9 (postponed from starting April 7). Residents and anyone who works in Eliot may attend, but applicants must be over 21 and pass a minimal background check.

The academy will take place in two-hour sessions from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursdays and will cover the history of the Police Department and topics like the Maine Criminal Justice Academy, criminal investigation, motor vehicle laws, the use of traffic radar, dispatch and civil and criminal law. Practical applications like finger printing are part of the program as are “fatal vision” goggles, which simulate driving while impaired. The last week of the academy will include investigating a crime. Police staff using videos will teach the course.






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Double agent reveals all in secret video

Posted By Staff on April 4, 2016

Media captionIn the previously unseen footage, Kim Philby gives a
seminar to East German spies

A previously unseen video of one of Britain’s most infamous spies
describing his career as a Soviet ag

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http://www.projectcensored.org/fbi-surv ... te-seeger/
FBI Surveillance of Pete Seeger
April 4, 2016

On December 22, 2015, Amy Goodman, of the independent news outlet
Democracy Now!, published a story called “Pete Seeger, Folk Legend &
FBI Target: Declassified Docs Show Iconic Singer Was Spied on for
Decades.” Goodman’s article focused on the surveillance Seeger and its
potential motivations. The topic of this surveillance is important
because it shows how the government spied on Pete Seeger for 30 years
due to views he had expressed, showcasing how the FBI can do
immoderate investigations of activists and peace groups. Since
December 2015, Corporate press has underreported the story of “Pete
Seeger, Folk Legend & FBI Target: Declassified Docs Show Iconic Singer
Was Spied on for Decades,” primarily focusing on the fact he was
almost arrested, not the surveillance he was under.

In the article, Goodman explains how the FBI released a 1,800 page
file detailing how they spied on Seeger for nearly 30 years; after he
sent a letter in 1943 protesting a government proposal to deport all
Japanese-Americans once World War II had ended. Ninety pages of the
report remain to be released, and the FBI continued to spy on Seeger
well into the 1970s. The FBI went to his grade school and high school,
looked into his father and his wife Toshi, who was Japanese-American.
Within the report, a military intelligence official wrote of how
Seeger had communist sympathies, unsatisfactory relations with
landlords and numerous communist/undesirable friends. Later, it was
written in the report how these connections made Seeger unfit for a
position of trust or responsibility. It was reported how Seeger made
an audience sing along at a concert, not by their own free will but
rather a supposed psychological manipulation, in addition to claiming
communist officers and members had complete control of said concert.

The topic of how Pete Seeger, an American citizen, was under
surveillance for just under thirty years, is significant because it
shows how the FBI can put people and groups under surveillance for
supposedly being dangerous, a sort of malpractice that is still going
on to this day. ABC News covered a story on how the FBI “improperly
targeted Greenpeace, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
(PETA), and two antiwar groups in domestic terrorism.” For five years
(2001-2006), the FBI spied on these groups, and after these five
years, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice looked into
the spying and found that there was little or no basis for the terror
investigations, stating they were “unreasonable and inconsistent with
FBI policy.” The FBI has been investigating peace groups and activists
for acts of terror ever since the 1940s.

Since December 18, 2015, numerous independent outlets have covered the
story of how the FBI spied on Pete Seeger for nearly thirty years. On
the other hand, the corporate press covered a small aspect of the
story. The New York Times reported on how Seeger was brought in for a
conviction for contempt of Congress in the 1950s, but does not delve
into the thirty years of surveillance of his life. Coverage of the
story all began with the independent news outlet Mother Jones
obtaining the file itself through a Freedom of Information Act
request. Mother Jones, Democracy Now!, Alternet, BoingBoing, Daily
News, and other independent outlets seem to have the same information.
All claim that the FBI spied on the renowned folk artist because of
his political views and associations. There is, however a slight
difference in terms of the amount of detail provided by the individual
independent news outlets. Mother Jones, having obtained the file
before anyone else, had a considerable amount more in terms of
information than others.

The unjust surveillance of Pete Seeger by the FBI shows how due to the
slightest suspicious act (sending a strongly worded letter), one could
become a target of the FBI. The recent inequitable investigations
conducted by the FBI of peace groups within the United States merely
proves that these kinds of unwarranted investigations still occur. It
is unreasonable how the government can target a peace and justice
center or an activist that focuses on nonviolence by claiming
potential terrorism.

Sources:

Corn, David. “Pete Seeger’s FBI File Reveals How the Folk Legend First
Became a Target of the Feds.” Mother Jones. 18 Dec. 2015.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/201 ... r-fbi-file

Beschizza, Rob. “FBI Thought Pete Seeger Was a Commie.” BoingBoing. 31
Jan. 2016.
http://boingboing.net/2016/01/31/pete-s ... 014.htmlht

Goodman, Amy. “Pete Seeger, Folk Legend & FBI Target: Declassified
Docs Show Iconic Singer Was Spied on for Decades.” Democracy Now! 22
Dec. 2015.
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/12/22/ ... fbi_target

McShane, Larry. “Folk Singer Pete Seeger’s FBI File Reveals Interview
Feds Had with Woody Guthrie, Report about Seeger’s ‘undesirable
Friends’.” New York Daily News. N.p., 19 Dec.Web. 23 Feb.
2016.http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainmen ... .2471337ht

Thorpe, Vanessa. “The FBI Snooped on Singer Pete Seeger for 20 Years.”
The Guardian, 19 Dec. 2015.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/d ... nist-links

Student Researchers: Dylan Lopez (California State University Maritime
Academy) and Joshua Gorski (Diablo Valley College)

Faculty Evaluator: Nolan Higdon (California State University Maritime
Academy)

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EarthTalk® for April 4, 2016 - What ever happened to the radical
environmental group Earth First!? Are they still around and what other
groups are leading the charge when it comes to so-called “radical
environmentalism” these days?
Published by The Editor on Mon, 04/04/2016 - 06:06



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The second opportunity will be Saturday July 9 at the Hobgoblin Barn
at the annual Peacestock. The theme will be “Terrorism: Definitions,
Causes and Effects,” and speakers include Dr. Todd Green, an associate
professor at Luther College and Michael Green, a retired FBI agent and
now a fellow with the Brennan Center For Justice in New York City.
They will speak on Islamophobia and the failures of our
counter-terrorism system. To get more information, go to the website
www.peacestockvfp.org.



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SNOWDEN SAYS FBI'S CLAIM APPLE NEEDS TO GO HACK ITSELF IS “HORSESHIT”
– Validated Independent News - Project Censored
http://www.projectcensored.org/snowden- ... -go-hack-h...
- Edward Snowden says the FBI is lying about needing Apple to unlock
San Bernardino Massacre gunman Syed Farook's iPhone 5C. At the Common
Cause ...

HACK ITSELF IS “HORSESHIT”
April 4, 2016
http://www.projectcensored.org/snowden- ... horseshit/

Edward Snowden says the FBI is lying about needing Apple to unlock San
Bernardino Massacre gunman Syed Farook’s iPhone 5C. At the Common
Cause Blueprint for a Great Democracy conference, held in downtown
Washington, D.C., on March 8, 2016, Snowden said: “The FBI says Apple
has the ‘exclusive technical means’ to unlock the phone. Respectfully,
that’s horseshit.” He also gave his support to an ACLU report that
states the FBI’s claim is illegitimate, due to the existence of a
memory mirroring process they can use to possibly unlock the phone.
Snowden says the FBI has had access to this data extraction process,
since the 1990s.

Snowden’s declaration of the FBI’s dishonesty seems to have been
further corroborated by the FBI itself, when they cancelled their
court date against Apple, for March 22, 2016; stating they have now
enlisted a third party who may be able to unlock Farood’s iPhone for
them. Additional Apple-free methods the FBI could possibly use to gain
access to the phone, that the global technological community already
appear to be aware of, consist of the following: “removing the
processor cover with acid and lasers, using a monster jailbreak, a
software exploit, or memory mirroring.”

As the FBI has expanded their unwarranted secret surveillance powers
under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, the question
arises as to what the Bureau’s actual intentions are by having the
Department of Justice possibly force a privately-held corporation like
Apple into compromising its own technology by hacking into to it; when
it appears the FBI doesn’t need them to do so.

Regarding corporate media coverage of this story, Time Magazine also
made mention of Snowden speaking out against the FBI at the Blueprint
for Democracy Conference. However, The Guardian expanded coverage by
providing video links to the Common Cause conference, pro-Apple
commentary from Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Apple co-founder
Steve Wozniak; and a link to a previous Guardian article detailing a
related New York iPhone unlocking case. Concurrently, as of March 23,
2016, Headlines & Global News, stated the Israeli tech company,
Cellebrite, is reportedly helping the FBI to decrypt Farook’s iPhone;
while The New York Times stated the FBI had previously employed
Cellebrite for the same task to no avail. Edward Snowden has recently
suggested that the FBI may have perjured itself in federal court, as a
result of their latest admissions.

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Jill Kelley – Author of 'Collateral Damage' joins Steve to discuss her
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Michigan man sues officer, FBI agent claiming excessive force in 2014
undercover arrest targeting different man


April 6, 2016, 11:29 am Updated: April 6, 2016, 11:30 am



GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A man is suing a Grand Rapids police
officer and an FBI agent, claiming he was brutally beaten by them when
they were undercover looking for a different man.

In the federal lawsuit filed Monday, 23-year-old James King argues
excessive force was used and his constitutional protecti

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April 5, 2016 10:13 AM
Ex-FBI agent from Olathe is involved in Trump’s ‘mercenary’ protection
force, Politico reports


Don Albracht, head of Trump’s private protester intelligence team,
captured on video amid protesters the night before Trump’s Janesville,
Wisc., rally. (Courtesy Brenda Konkel) Note: Permission granted to
Politico to screen grab and publish frames from video.
i

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/ne ... 09797.html

A former FBI agent from Olathe is a member of a “privately funded
security and intelligence force” assembled to protect presidential
candidate Donald Trump, Politico says.

The website says Donald Albracht is heavily involved in policing
attendance at Trump events. Albracht has directed Secret Service
protection for the candidate, videotaped protesters, and at a recent
event “spent hours patrolling a line of several thousand people
snaking around the hotel parking lot … Several people deemed
suspicious-looking were pulled out of the line and told they weren’t
welcome.”

Politico says a company called ASIT Consulting has been paid $27,246
by the Trump campaign through the end of 2015. Kansas business records
show Albracht is the registered agent for the company, based in
Olathe.

The story includes a photograph of Albracht interacting with
protesters at a Trump event.

“ASIT Consulting, established in 2012, offers professional security
services, executive protection, private investigation, tactical
firearms training, concealed carry training, and personal protection
consultation to clients who want to take advantage of the knowledge,
training and experience gleaned from a lengthy career as an FBI
Special Agent,” Albracht’s LinkedIn page says.

“For over 28 years, my experience spanned investigations, tactical
operations, and training. Throughout assignments as a ‘street Agent’
in the San Diego, New York, and Kansas City Offices of the FBI, I had
an opportunity to investigate a broad spectrum of federal violations
that resulted in the conviction and incarceration of numerous violent
criminals. My duties included FBI SWAT Team Leader, Violent Crime Task
Force Coordinator, Principal Tactical Instructor and Firearms
Instructor.”

The LinkedIn page also says Albracht is connected with Centerfire
Shooting Sports, an Olathe-based shooting range.

The POLITICO story says Albracht is part of a “mercenary force”
protecting Trump, weeding out potential security threats. He has
allegedly ripped signs from protesters, and critics claim, has
attempted to “escalate” confrontations at events for the candidates.
One critic said ripping signs from protesters could be illegal.

Trump’s security has been a subject of scrutiny during the campaign.
His campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, faces a battery charge for
allegedly grabbing the arm of a reporter following


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former FBI agent and US Representative Grimm's restaurant partner to
plead guilty: lawyer
Tuesday, April 05, 2016 2:06 p.m. CDT

http://kdal610.com/news/articles/2016/a ... ty-lawyer/

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A onetime business partner of former U.S.
Representative Michael Grimm is preparing to plead guilty to a tax
charge in a case related to the prosecution that led to the
congressman's imprisonment, his lawyer said on Tuesday.

Prosecutors in a filing in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, on
Monday said they intend to file charges against Bennett Orfaly,
Grimm's former partner in Healthalicious, a restaurant at the center
of the Republican politician's criminal case.

James DiPietro, Orfaly's lawyer, in an interview said his client is
"hoping to reach a quick resolution with a plea to a tax count."

The filing on Monday said the case would relate to the one against
Grimm, who represented a district in the New York City borough of
Staten Island. Grimm was sentenced in July to eight months in prison
after pleading guilty to tax fraud.

DiPietro said that while the case stemmed from the investigation of
Grimm, Orfaly will be charged in connection with other restaurants he
owned. A deal could come as soon as next week or the following, he
said.

A spokeswoman for Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Robert Capers and a lawyer
for Grimm both declined comment. The expected plea was first reported
by Daily News

Grimm, a former Marine who subsequently worked as an FBI agent, was
elected in 2010 with a wave of conservative "Tea Party" Republicans
advocating low taxes and government spending, but built a moderate
voting record.

From 2007 to 2010, Grimm oversaw the day-to-day operations of
Healthalicious, which he co-founded with Orfaly, according to
authorities.

At a court hearing in 2012, a prosecutor, Anthony Capozzolo, said
Orfaly had ties to a member of the Gambino family, Anthony Morelli,
who was sentenced in 1996 to 20 years in prison in connection with a
gas tax fraud.

That statement came during a bail hearing for a former campaign
fundraiser for Grimm, Ofer Biton, who later pleaded guilty to visa
fraud in 2013.

Grimm was subsequently indicted in April 2014 on tax charges related
to Healthalicious and pleaded guilty that December to aiding and
assisting the preparation of a false tax return.

Prosecutors said Grimm under-reported wages paid to workers, many of
whom did not have legal status in the United States, and concealed
over $900,000 in Healthalicious' gross


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NFL replaces rookie symposium with new rookie transition program
NBCSports.com-4 hours ago
This way they get to meet each team's former FBI agent on-staff to
train the players on what to do when police arrive. Kingmj4891 says:
Apr 5, 2016 4:10 PM.

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2 stories

2 FBI agent sex offenders



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Child porn-collecting FBI partner on track to dodge jail
Seattle head of FBI/private industry group hopes to return to home across from Ballard elementary school

Wednesday, April 6 2016

A cybersecurity taskforce chief turned child pornography collector seems poised to dodge prison – and live across the street from a Seattle elementary school.

Before agents arrived at his house across from Ballard’s West Woodland Elementary School, security consultant Brian Haller led the Seattle chapter of an FBI/private-sector group tasked with fighting computer crime and cyberterrorism. Haller had access to a secure FBI online platform and email system, though he is not alleged to have used either to collect child porn.

Haller was one of the smaller fish caught in an expansive FBI sting last year. Agents found the law enforcement insider used a “dark web” service – a Tor network site – to collect 600 files capturing the sexual abuse and exploitation of countless children.

Usually, Haller’s crimes would carry a five-year prison term. Instead, federal prosecutors have asked that Haller, 40, be spared even jail time when he is sentenced Friday for possession of child pornography.

Prosecutors are officially mute on a request from Haller’s attorney that he be allowed to return to his home across from West Woodland Elementary. A psychologist hired by Haller argues the children there will be safe so long as Haller covers his windows and isn’t outside
The judge in the case is Robert Bryan.

The Honorable Robert J. Bryan United States Courthouse 1717 Pacific Avenue, Room 3100. Tacoma, WA 98402-3200. Chambers: (253) 882-3870. Judicial ...


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FBI agent doesn't have to register as sex offender for peeping Tom incidents in Hershey, elsewhere, court says | PennLivel
Jul 11, 2014 - Ryan Seese received a prison term for sneaking into women's ... Superior Court concluded that Seese isn't subject to sex offender registration ...