The FBI has shut down popular share filing site, MegaUpload and charged seven people affiliated with the site for online piracy. The Department Of Justice claims the MegaUpload was responsible for $500 million in losses for various copyright owners, while making a $175 million profit. Recently MegaUpload named hip-hop producer Swizz Beats as CEO and […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior executive at a technology company that makes monitoring software secretly installed on 141 million cellphones said Thursday that the FBI approached the company about using its technology but was rebuffed. The disclosure came one day after FBI Director Robert Mueller assured Congress that agents “neither sought nor obtained any information” […]
HOUSTON — The FBI and Secret Service are investigating a cartoon sent to Houston Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee that depicted her and President Barack Obama being lynched. The Houston Chronicle reports: Beneath a headline which included a racial epithet referring to African-Americans, the one-page cartoon showed two L-shaped lynching posts with “Sheila Jackson Lee” written […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: The U.S. attorney’s office in the District has found more than 100 cases since the mid-1970s that need to be reviewed because of potentially falsified and inaccurate tests by FBI analysts. The report, filed in D.C. Superior Court late Friday, stems from an internal investigation by prosecutors after the exoneration in […]
VIA MYFOXDC: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The corruption probe involving the D.C. Taxicab industry widened considerably Friday with the indictment of 37 people– most of them cab drivers– all charged with conspiracy to commit bribery. The FBI also raided the home of a former chairman of the D.C. Taxicab commission, searching it for several hours. It’s […]
VIA WUSA: WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA)– Sources tell 9NEWS NOW that the FBI probe includes alleged bribes at the DC Vehicle Inspection station in Southwest. Back in April 9NEWS NOW disclosed that cab drivers were leaving twenty dollar bills in the ash trays of their vehicles. Some inspectors were taking the bribes as payment for overlooking […]
VIA CNN: WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Obama has approved the establishment of a special unit of terrorist interrogators based out of the FBI, senior administration officials said Monday. The move comes in the wake of criticism of questionable CIA interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding and the transfer of detainees to countries where torture is common. […]
