Questions surround items bought at Walmart by Lutchman and undercover agent
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Friday, January 1st 2016
Rochester, N.Y. - Questions are swirling around the products Emanuel Lutchman, the suspect in a terror plot, and the undercover FBI agent reportedly bought at a local Walmart.
The criminal complaint stated Lutchman and the undercover FBI agent bought a machete, knives, zip-ties, duct tape, ammonia and latex gloves at the Hudson Avenue Walmart.
The undercover agent purchased the items because Lutchman did not have enough money to do so.
Some people believe this purchase should have raised red flags straight away.
When 13WHAM reached out to Walmart, the company only told us authorities have contacted
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visit me over at RI. and see what the FBI is doing and much more
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Discredited ex-FBI agent hired back as a private contractor years later
July 21, 2014 | 5:26am
Discredited ex-FBI agent hired back as a private contractor years later
The entrance of the FBI building in Washington, DC. Photo: Shutterstock
WASHINGTON – A discredited ex-FBI agent whose “unreliable” testimony helped put away defendants later found innocent was hired back by the agency as a private contractor years after his misdeeds were uncovered, The Post has learned.
Michael Malone, a former forensics expert specializing in hair and fiber analysis, retired from the FBI in 1999 — two years after a 1997 inspector general’s report found he had testified falsely in an important criminal case.
But in its third review of bungling at FBI labs, the Justice Department’s Inspector General found that Malone had been performing background check investigations for the FBI as an “active contract employee of the FBI” since 2002.
In fact, he was still indirectly on the FBI payroll two months ago, as the IG wrapped up its report on “scientifically unsupportable analysis and overstated testimony by FBI Lab examiners” in a long series of criminal prosecutions.
After the IG raised the issue with the FBI, the agency reported back that Malone’s “association with the FBI was terminated” as of June 17.
Justice Department and FBI officials didn’t answer questions from The Post about how many background checks Malone performed or why he was re-hired.
Although he was never disciplined and got to retire with a pension, Malone’s criminal forensics work has come under heavy scrutiny by investigators – including his involvement in a case that sent former DC resident Donald Gates to prison for 28 years for a murder he didn’t commit.
“Malone’s faulty analysis and scientifically unsupportable testimony contributed to the conviction of an innocent defendant” and at least five other convictions that were later reversed, the IG wrote in its report, released last week.
Malone testified at trial that one of Gates’ hairs scientifically matched one found on the body of Georgetown University student Catherine Schilling, 21. DNA evidence later proved him to be wrong.
His testimony before a judicial inquiry of Florida federal Judge Alcee Hastings was also found to be off base. Malone testified that he conducted a “tensile” test on a piece of evidence – a purse strap. It was later revealed he didn’t do the test.
Independent scientists found 96 percent of Malone’s caseload to be “problematic” for reasons such as making statements that “had no scientific basis.” Contrary to normal standards, Malone produced lab notes that were “in pencil and not dated.”
The prior IG investigation found Malone testified “outside his expertise and inaccurately” and cited him for misconduct.
Malone denied any wrongdoing.
“The whole time I was in the lab I got nothing but exceptional and superior ratings,” Malone told the St. Petersburg Times in 2001. “This is going to sound like bragging, but we were the best in the world for hairs.”
Attempts to contact him last week were unsuccessful.
“It’s absolutely unbelievable considering what the FBI knows about this individual that he’s been allowed to continue as an FBI contractor,” whistleblower Fred Whitehurst, a former top FBI explosives expert, told The Post.
Early on, the FBI appears not to have considered looking into more systemic problems in its hair and fibers unit. Investigators uncovered a 2002 memo from DOJ’s criminal division to Michael Chertoff, then assistant attorney general, raising concerns about “the specter that the other examiners in the [Hairs and Fibers] unit were either as sloppy as Malone or were not adequately conducting confirmations [of his work]. This issue has been raised with the FBI but not resolved to date.”
A footnote in the report states that the agency “did not produce” a response to investigators’ request for old FBI manuals. But investigators “located on the Internet” an FBI manual from 1977, the report notes.
The Justice Department, in its formal response to the inquiry, wrote that Justice and the FBI in 2012 “initiated a comprehensive review of microscopic hair comparison analysis or testimony provided in more than 20,000 cases prior to December 31, 2009,” when DNA testing became routine.
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Discredited ex-FBI agent hired back as a private contractor years later
July 21, 2014 | 5:26am
Discredited ex-FBI agent hired back as a private contractor years later
The entrance of the FBI building in Washington, DC. Photo: Shutterstock
WASHINGTON – A discredited ex-FBI agent whose “unreliable” testimony helped put away defendants later found innocent was hired back by the agency as a private contractor years after his misdeeds were uncovered, The Post has learned.
Michael Malone, a former forensics expert specializing in hair and fiber analysis, retired from the FBI in 1999 — two years after a 1997 inspector general’s report found he had testified falsely in an important criminal case.
But in its third review of bungling at FBI labs, the Justice Department’s Inspector General found that Malone had been performing background check investigations for the FBI as an “active contract employee of the FBI” since 2002.
In fact, he was still indirectly on the FBI payroll two months ago, as the IG wrapped up its report on “scientifically unsupportable analysis and overstated testimony by FBI Lab examiners” in a long series of criminal prosecutions.
After the IG raised the issue with the FBI, the agency reported back that Malone’s “association with the FBI was terminated” as of June 17.
Justice Department and FBI officials didn’t answer questions from The Post about how many background checks Malone performed or why he was re-hired.
Although he was never disciplined and got to retire with a pension, Malone’s criminal forensics work has come under heavy scrutiny by investigators – including his involvement in a case that sent former DC resident Donald Gates to prison for 28 years for a murder he didn’t commit.
“Malone’s faulty analysis and scientifically unsupportable testimony contributed to the conviction of an innocent defendant” and at least five other convictions that were later reversed, the IG wrote in its report, released last week.
Malone testified at trial that one of Gates’ hairs scientifically matched one found on the body of Georgetown University student Catherine Schilling, 21. DNA evidence later proved him to be wrong.
His testimony before a judicial inquiry of Florida federal Judge Alcee Hastings was also found to be off base. Malone testified that he conducted a “tensile” test on a piece of evidence – a purse strap. It was later revealed he didn’t do the test.
Independent scientists found 96 percent of Malone’s caseload to be “problematic” for reasons such as making statements that “had no scientific basis.” Contrary to normal standards, Malone produced lab notes that were “in pencil and not dated.”
The prior IG investigation found Malone testified “outside his expertise and inaccurately” and cited him for misconduct.
Malone denied any wrongdoing.
“The whole time I was in the lab I got nothing but exceptional and superior ratings,” Malone told the St. Petersburg Times in 2001. “This is going to sound like bragging, but we were the best in the world for hairs.”
Attempts to contact him last week were unsuccessful.
“It’s absolutely unbelievable considering what the FBI knows about this individual that he’s been allowed to continue as an FBI contractor,” whistleblower Fred Whitehurst, a former top FBI explosives expert, told The Post.
Early on, the FBI appears not to have considered looking into more systemic problems in its hair and fibers unit. Investigators uncovered a 2002 memo from DOJ’s criminal division to Michael Chertoff, then assistant attorney general, raising concerns about “the specter that the other examiners in the [Hairs and Fibers] unit were either as sloppy as Malone or were not adequately conducting confirmations [of his work]. This issue has been raised with the FBI but not resolved to date.”
A footnote in the report states that the agency “did not produce” a response to investigators’ request for old FBI manuals. But investigators “located on the Internet” an FBI manual from 1977, the report notes.
The Justice Department, in its formal response to the inquiry, wrote that Justice and the FBI in 2012 “initiated a comprehensive review of microscopic hair comparison analysis or testimony provided in more than 20,000 cases prior to December 31, 2009,” when DNA testing became routine.
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The classic poster child of a homogenous community is the FBI.
I have always found the strongest communities are heterogenous
where growth of the community is driven by the diversity of its
membership. Sort of like a non mormom like msfreeh posting
at LDSFF . Remember, there are no membership dues at http://www.rigorousintuition.ca" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
In other news.
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Book: Secret Service Accommodates Blond Mistress for Bill Clinton When Wife Gone
Steve Neavling
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The Secret Service was given orders to ignore former U.S. President Bill Clinton’s blond mistress when she visited the home he shares with his wife in New York, according to an upcoming book, “The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Revel the Hidden Lives of Presidents.”
The book by Ronald Kessler claims that Secret Service agents were told never to stop the woman, whose code name was “Energizer,” the Business Standard reports.
The woman arrived in the absence of Hillary Clinton, according to the book.
The book also alleges that some of President Obama’s Secret Service agents have hired prostitutes in Columbia.
I have always found the strongest communities are heterogenous
where growth of the community is driven by the diversity of its
membership. Sort of like a non mormom like msfreeh posting
at LDSFF . Remember, there are no membership dues at http://www.rigorousintuition.ca" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
In other news.
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Book: Secret Service Accommodates Blond Mistress for Bill Clinton When Wife Gone
Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The Secret Service was given orders to ignore former U.S. President Bill Clinton’s blond mistress when she visited the home he shares with his wife in New York, according to an upcoming book, “The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Revel the Hidden Lives of Presidents.”
The book by Ronald Kessler claims that Secret Service agents were told never to stop the woman, whose code name was “Energizer,” the Business Standard reports.
The woman arrived in the absence of Hillary Clinton, according to the book.
The book also alleges that some of President Obama’s Secret Service agents have hired prostitutes in Columbia.
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This week only everyone over the age of 121 can join the forum
and get a free membership with Mensa see what you have been missing
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FBI Informant Craig Monteilh Stars in New Al Jazeera Film
Wed., Jul. 23 2014 at 7:33 AM
Craig "The Bodybuilder" Monteilh
Craig Monteilh, the iron-pumping convicted con artist who spied on Orange County Muslims for the FBI, is now a movie star. Unfortunately for him, it's not as a comic book action hero in a Hollywood blockbuster, but rather an Al Jazeera documentary that has just been released online.
The film, titled "The Informants" and produced by Al Jazeera's Investigate Unit, profiles a trio of informants, including Monteilh, who built flimsy terrorism cases against unsuspecting Muslims. Monteilh has the unique distinction of being the only one who failed to win a single terrorism conviction against anyone--and for ultimately becoming a huge liability for the feds. In the film, he tries to take a stand as a "whistleblower" against his former employer, however he seems more interested in talking about his own prowess as a liar than anything else.
As Al Jazeera points out, the FBI employs some 15,000 informants nationwide, many of whom are engaged in spying on Muslims. One of them who is profiled in the new film is Elie Assad, nicknamed "The Closer," because he says the FBI paid him to fix cases that the bureau had messed up. Others, including Rory McMahon, a private investigator who worked on one of those cases, call Assad an inveterate liar. Darren Griffen, an African-American Iraq war vet, became an informant after becoming a drug addict. Unlike Monteilh, both men managed to build cases against Muslims who are now behind bars for agreeing to participate in terrorist acts concocted by the FBI.
Posing as a convert named Farouk Aziz, Monteilh showed up at an Irvine mosque in 2006. He quickly befriended several members, often inviting them to workout sessions out at a nearby gym. Over the next year, Monteilh earned thousands of dollars from the bureau. But when he started talking "jihad' with fellow congregants, they informed the FBI of their concerns and filed a restraining order against him.
The bureau, which had already promised it wasn't spying on mosques (you can see yours truly in a shot of a meeting where this promise was made at 16:18 into the film) arrested one of his targets, whom Monteilh had recorded praising bin Laden, for passport fraud. After the bureau refused to help Monteilh evade punishment for grand theft in an unrelated case, he sued the FBI, thus exposing his status as an informant. Monteilh later had a change of heart regarding the Muslims he once claimed were terrorists, and actually joined them in an unsuccessful federal civil rights lawsuit against the feds.
The Al Jazeera film provides a compelling account of the sordid work of spying on Muslims, and it's sobering to watch. But Monteilh seems to have been included for comic relief as much as anything else. He looks like a pasty version of the Incredible Hulk, except with deep worry wrinkles in his bulging, usually sweat-beaded forehead. At the gym, he shows off his 30-inch guns. Even the name of the undercover operation Monteilh carried out is entertaining: "Flex."
At one point, Monteilh likens the federal government's spying on Muslims to what happened in East Germany or Cuba during the Cold War, where neighbor spied upon neighbor. "It's completely out of control," he says. That may be true, and the film is a testament to that. And Monteilh himself will surely go down as one of the biggest embarrassments the FBI may ever suffer as a result of that effort.
As Monteilh himself says: "The FBI thought I was the greatest informant on the planet Earth."
and get a free membership with Mensa see what you have been missing
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FBI Informant Craig Monteilh Stars in New Al Jazeera Film
Wed., Jul. 23 2014 at 7:33 AM
Craig "The Bodybuilder" Monteilh
Craig Monteilh, the iron-pumping convicted con artist who spied on Orange County Muslims for the FBI, is now a movie star. Unfortunately for him, it's not as a comic book action hero in a Hollywood blockbuster, but rather an Al Jazeera documentary that has just been released online.
The film, titled "The Informants" and produced by Al Jazeera's Investigate Unit, profiles a trio of informants, including Monteilh, who built flimsy terrorism cases against unsuspecting Muslims. Monteilh has the unique distinction of being the only one who failed to win a single terrorism conviction against anyone--and for ultimately becoming a huge liability for the feds. In the film, he tries to take a stand as a "whistleblower" against his former employer, however he seems more interested in talking about his own prowess as a liar than anything else.
As Al Jazeera points out, the FBI employs some 15,000 informants nationwide, many of whom are engaged in spying on Muslims. One of them who is profiled in the new film is Elie Assad, nicknamed "The Closer," because he says the FBI paid him to fix cases that the bureau had messed up. Others, including Rory McMahon, a private investigator who worked on one of those cases, call Assad an inveterate liar. Darren Griffen, an African-American Iraq war vet, became an informant after becoming a drug addict. Unlike Monteilh, both men managed to build cases against Muslims who are now behind bars for agreeing to participate in terrorist acts concocted by the FBI.
Posing as a convert named Farouk Aziz, Monteilh showed up at an Irvine mosque in 2006. He quickly befriended several members, often inviting them to workout sessions out at a nearby gym. Over the next year, Monteilh earned thousands of dollars from the bureau. But when he started talking "jihad' with fellow congregants, they informed the FBI of their concerns and filed a restraining order against him.
The bureau, which had already promised it wasn't spying on mosques (you can see yours truly in a shot of a meeting where this promise was made at 16:18 into the film) arrested one of his targets, whom Monteilh had recorded praising bin Laden, for passport fraud. After the bureau refused to help Monteilh evade punishment for grand theft in an unrelated case, he sued the FBI, thus exposing his status as an informant. Monteilh later had a change of heart regarding the Muslims he once claimed were terrorists, and actually joined them in an unsuccessful federal civil rights lawsuit against the feds.
The Al Jazeera film provides a compelling account of the sordid work of spying on Muslims, and it's sobering to watch. But Monteilh seems to have been included for comic relief as much as anything else. He looks like a pasty version of the Incredible Hulk, except with deep worry wrinkles in his bulging, usually sweat-beaded forehead. At the gym, he shows off his 30-inch guns. Even the name of the undercover operation Monteilh carried out is entertaining: "Flex."
At one point, Monteilh likens the federal government's spying on Muslims to what happened in East Germany or Cuba during the Cold War, where neighbor spied upon neighbor. "It's completely out of control," he says. That may be true, and the film is a testament to that. And Monteilh himself will surely go down as one of the biggest embarrassments the FBI may ever suffer as a result of that effort.
As Monteilh himself says: "The FBI thought I was the greatest informant on the planet Earth."
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no to late to join forces over at RI. ,eh?
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Meet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually Impossible to Block
July 22, 2014
By Julia Angwin via ProPublica
A new, extremely persistent type of online tracking is shadowing visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.com.
First documented in a forthcoming paper by researchers at Princeton University and KU Leuven University in Belgium, this type of tracking, called canvas fingerprinting, works by instructing the visitor’s Web browser to draw a hidden image. Because each computer draws the image slightly differently, the images can be used to assign each user’s device a number that uniquely identifies it.
Like other tracking tools, canvas fingerprints are used to build profiles of users based on the websites they visit — profiles that shape which ads, news articles, or other types of content are displayed to them.
But fingerprints are unusually hard to block: They can’t be prevented by using standard Web browser privacy settings or using anti-tracking tools such as AdBlock Plus.
The researchers found canvas fingerprinting computer code, primarily written by a company called AddThis, on 5 percent of the top 100,000 websites. Most of the code was on websites that use AddThis’ social media sharing tools. Other fingerprinters include the German digital marketer Ligatus and the Canadian dating site Plentyoffish. (A list of all the websites on which researchers found the code is here).
Rich Harris, chief executive of AddThis, said that the company began testing canvas fingerprinting earlier this year as a possible way to replace “cookies,” the traditional way that users are tracked, via text files installed on their computers.
“We’re looking for a cookie alternative,” Harris said in an interview.
Harris said the company considered the privacy implications of canvas fingerprinting before launching the test, but decided “this is well within the rules and regulations and laws and policies that we have.”
He added that the company has only used the data collected from canvas fingerprints for internal research and development. The company won’t use the data for ad targeting or personalization if users install the AddThis opt-out cookie on their computers, he said.
Arvind Narayanan, the computer science professor who led the Princeton research team, countered that forcing users to take AddThis at its word about how their data will be used, is “not the best privacy assurance.”
Device fingerprints rely on the fact that every computer is slightly different: Each contains different fonts, different software, different clock settings and other distinctive features. Computers automatically broadcast some of their attributes when they connect to another computer over the Internet.
Tracking companies have long sought to use those differences to uniquely identify devices for online advertising purposes, particularly as Web users are increasingly using ad-blocking software and deleting cookies.
In May 2012, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, noticed that a Web programming feature called “canvas” could allow for a new type of fingerprint — by pulling in different attributes than a typical device fingerprint.
In June, the Tor Project added a feature to its privacy-protecting Web browser to notify users when a website attempts to use the canvas feature and sends a blank canvas image. But other Web browsers did not add notifications for canvas fingerprinting.
How You Can Try to Thwart Canvas Fingerprinting
Use the Tor browser (Warning: can be slow)
Block JavaScript from loading in your browser (Warning: breaks a lot of web sites)
Use NoScript browser extension to block JavaScript from known fingerprinters such as AddThis (Warning: requires a lot of research and decision-making)
Try the experimental browser extension Chameleon that is designed to block fingerprinting (Warning: only recommended for tech-savvy users at this point)
Install opt-out cookies from known fingerprinters such as AddThis (Warning: fingerprint will likely still be collected, companies simply pledge not to use the data for ad targeting or personalization)
A year later, Russian programmer Valentin Vasilyev noticed the study and added a canvas feature to freely available fingerprint code that he had posted on the Internet. The code was immediately popular.
But Vasilyev said that the company he was working for at the time decided against using the fingerprint technology. “We collected several million fingerprints but we decided against using them because accuracy was 90 percent,” he said, “and many of our customers were on mobile and the fingerprinting doesn’t work well on mobile.”
Vasilyev added that he wasn’t worried about the privacy concerns of fingerprinting. “The fingerprint itself is a number which in no way is related to a personality,” he said.
AddThis improved upon Vasilyev’s code by adding new tests and using the canvas to draw a pangram “Cwm fjordbank glyphs vext quiz” — a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once. This allows the company to capture slight variations in how each letter is displayed.
AddThis said it rolled out the feature to a small portion of the 13 million websites on which its technology appears, but is considering ending its test soon. “It’s not uniquely identifying enough,” Harris said.
AddThis did not notify the websites on which the code was placed because “we conduct R&D projects in live environments to get the best results from testing,” according to a spokeswoman.
She added that the company does not use any of the data it collects — whether from canvas fingerprints or traditional cookie-based tracking — from government websites including WhiteHouse.gov for ad targeting or personalization.
The company offered no such assurances about data it routinely collects from visitors to other sites, such as YouPorn.com. YouPorn.com did not respond to inquiries from ProPublica about whether it was aware of AddThis’ test of canvas fingerprinting on its website.
Update: A YouPorn.com spokesperson said that the website was “completely unaware that AddThis contained a tracking software that had the potential to jeopardize the privacy of our users.” After this article was published, YouPorn removed AddThis technology from its website.
Julia Angwin is a senior reporter at ProPublica. From 2000 to 2013, she was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she led a privacy investigative team that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting in 2011 and won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2010.
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Meet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually Impossible to Block
July 22, 2014
By Julia Angwin via ProPublica
A new, extremely persistent type of online tracking is shadowing visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.com.
First documented in a forthcoming paper by researchers at Princeton University and KU Leuven University in Belgium, this type of tracking, called canvas fingerprinting, works by instructing the visitor’s Web browser to draw a hidden image. Because each computer draws the image slightly differently, the images can be used to assign each user’s device a number that uniquely identifies it.
Like other tracking tools, canvas fingerprints are used to build profiles of users based on the websites they visit — profiles that shape which ads, news articles, or other types of content are displayed to them.
But fingerprints are unusually hard to block: They can’t be prevented by using standard Web browser privacy settings or using anti-tracking tools such as AdBlock Plus.
The researchers found canvas fingerprinting computer code, primarily written by a company called AddThis, on 5 percent of the top 100,000 websites. Most of the code was on websites that use AddThis’ social media sharing tools. Other fingerprinters include the German digital marketer Ligatus and the Canadian dating site Plentyoffish. (A list of all the websites on which researchers found the code is here).
Rich Harris, chief executive of AddThis, said that the company began testing canvas fingerprinting earlier this year as a possible way to replace “cookies,” the traditional way that users are tracked, via text files installed on their computers.
“We’re looking for a cookie alternative,” Harris said in an interview.
Harris said the company considered the privacy implications of canvas fingerprinting before launching the test, but decided “this is well within the rules and regulations and laws and policies that we have.”
He added that the company has only used the data collected from canvas fingerprints for internal research and development. The company won’t use the data for ad targeting or personalization if users install the AddThis opt-out cookie on their computers, he said.
Arvind Narayanan, the computer science professor who led the Princeton research team, countered that forcing users to take AddThis at its word about how their data will be used, is “not the best privacy assurance.”
Device fingerprints rely on the fact that every computer is slightly different: Each contains different fonts, different software, different clock settings and other distinctive features. Computers automatically broadcast some of their attributes when they connect to another computer over the Internet.
Tracking companies have long sought to use those differences to uniquely identify devices for online advertising purposes, particularly as Web users are increasingly using ad-blocking software and deleting cookies.
In May 2012, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, noticed that a Web programming feature called “canvas” could allow for a new type of fingerprint — by pulling in different attributes than a typical device fingerprint.
In June, the Tor Project added a feature to its privacy-protecting Web browser to notify users when a website attempts to use the canvas feature and sends a blank canvas image. But other Web browsers did not add notifications for canvas fingerprinting.
How You Can Try to Thwart Canvas Fingerprinting
Use the Tor browser (Warning: can be slow)
Block JavaScript from loading in your browser (Warning: breaks a lot of web sites)
Use NoScript browser extension to block JavaScript from known fingerprinters such as AddThis (Warning: requires a lot of research and decision-making)
Try the experimental browser extension Chameleon that is designed to block fingerprinting (Warning: only recommended for tech-savvy users at this point)
Install opt-out cookies from known fingerprinters such as AddThis (Warning: fingerprint will likely still be collected, companies simply pledge not to use the data for ad targeting or personalization)
A year later, Russian programmer Valentin Vasilyev noticed the study and added a canvas feature to freely available fingerprint code that he had posted on the Internet. The code was immediately popular.
But Vasilyev said that the company he was working for at the time decided against using the fingerprint technology. “We collected several million fingerprints but we decided against using them because accuracy was 90 percent,” he said, “and many of our customers were on mobile and the fingerprinting doesn’t work well on mobile.”
Vasilyev added that he wasn’t worried about the privacy concerns of fingerprinting. “The fingerprint itself is a number which in no way is related to a personality,” he said.
AddThis improved upon Vasilyev’s code by adding new tests and using the canvas to draw a pangram “Cwm fjordbank glyphs vext quiz” — a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once. This allows the company to capture slight variations in how each letter is displayed.
AddThis said it rolled out the feature to a small portion of the 13 million websites on which its technology appears, but is considering ending its test soon. “It’s not uniquely identifying enough,” Harris said.
AddThis did not notify the websites on which the code was placed because “we conduct R&D projects in live environments to get the best results from testing,” according to a spokeswoman.
She added that the company does not use any of the data it collects — whether from canvas fingerprints or traditional cookie-based tracking — from government websites including WhiteHouse.gov for ad targeting or personalization.
The company offered no such assurances about data it routinely collects from visitors to other sites, such as YouPorn.com. YouPorn.com did not respond to inquiries from ProPublica about whether it was aware of AddThis’ test of canvas fingerprinting on its website.
Update: A YouPorn.com spokesperson said that the website was “completely unaware that AddThis contained a tracking software that had the potential to jeopardize the privacy of our users.” After this article was published, YouPorn removed AddThis technology from its website.
Julia Angwin is a senior reporter at ProPublica. From 2000 to 2013, she was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she led a privacy investigative team that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting in 2011 and won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2010.
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2. reads
FBI Director Mueller was at center of alleged BCCI coverup in 1991
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How Doj Cover-Up of FBI Murders Enabled 9/11 Attacks
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Rodey Stich - 2012
He was in the U.S. Attorney's office responsible for prosecuting people involved in the BCCI bank scandal that was more of a cover-up than prosecution. Charles ...
Crimes of the FBI-Doj, Mafia, and Al Qaeda
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Rodney Stich - 2009 - Mafia
He was in the U.S. Attorney's office responsible for prosecuting people involved in the BCCI bank scandal that was more of a cover-up than prosecution. Charles ...
DOJ-Judicial Crimes Against the People: - Google Books Result
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Captain Rodney Stich - 2014 - History
Mueller Cover-Up In BCCI Scandal A Wall Street Journal editorial (May 31, 2002) ... [to FBI director], we raised questions about his handling of the BCCI scandal ...
Crimes Ol the CIA-Doj, and the Mafia - Page 140 - Google Books Result
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Rodney Stich - 2008 - True Crime
Mueller Cover-Up In BCCI Scandal A Wall Street Journal editorial (May 31, 2002) ... [to FBI director], we raised questions about his handling of the BCCI scandal ...
Those Ugly Americans: 20th & 21st Centuries - Google Books Result
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Rodney Stich - 2006
He's implicated in the Boston FBI cover-up and trial of former FBI agent John ... Mueller Cover-Up In BCCI Scandal A Wall Street Journal editorial (May 31, 2002) ...
FBI, CIA, the Mob, and Treachery - Page 451 - Google Books Result
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Rodney Stich - 2006 - Mafia
By doing this, Britain helped precipitate BCCI's status as an ―offshore‖ financial ... CIA agents Priscu and Hebert had acknowledged their cover-up of these ...
From BCCI to ISI: The Saga of Entrapment Continues
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Abid Ullah Jan - 2006 - Business & Economics
The FBI arrived in Venice just hours after the 9/11 attacks. ... “There is a demonstrable, provable, and massive federally-supervised coverup in place in Florida.
BCCI - The Dirtiest Bank of All
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B.C.C.I. even accomplished a Stealth-like invasion of the U.S. banking industry by secretly ..... Yet the evidence of a cover-up is mounting: ... The U.S. Attorney General has assigned only a handful of FBI agents to its Washington grand jury ...
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Top Pentagon Intel Official: No Mideast Peace 'In My Lifetime'
JULY 27, 2014 - 03:27 PM
This story has been updated.
ASPEN, Colo. -- A top Pentagon intelligence official said he saw no prospect of Mideast peace in the decades to come, a strikingly pessimistic assessment of one of the Obama administration's top foreign policy priorities.
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who will be stepping down from his post as the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency later this year, told an audience at the Aspen Security Forum that Israel needed to carefully calibrate its current military offensive in Gaza so that it punished Hamas without fully eradicating it. If it did, Flynn warned that Gaza could fall under the sway of the extremist group that now control broad swaths of Syria and Iraq.
"If Hamas were fully destroyed and gone, we would probably end up with something much worse. The region would end up with something much worse," Flynn said Saturday night. "It would be a worse threat that could come into the ecosystem and be more dangerous, something like an [Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham] or an [Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]."
Flynn told the crowd that the instability wracking the region was likely to continue well into the future. "Is there going to be peace in the Middle East? Not in my lifetime," he said.
The DIA chief's unusually blunt comments came on a weekend of violence in Gaza, where the death toll for both Israelis and Palestinians has been steadily rising.
The two sides had agreed to a 24-hour humanitarian cease-fire Saturday, and Israel offered to extend the agreement by another 12 hours. Hamas rejected the extension, and on Sunday morning resumed its missile attacks on Tel Aviv. Israel responded with a barrage of new airstrikes on Gaza targets across Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told "Fox News Sunday" that Israel would continue its offensive against Hamas until the militant group stopped lobbing rockets into Israel or using its tunnels to infiltrate Israeli territory to mount new attacks or kidnap soldiers or civilians.
"Hamas has broken five cease-fires," Netanyahu said. "They've violated their own cease-fires. They are firing on us now. ... We'll do whatever is necessary to achieve our goal of a sustained quiet."
The conflict, now entering its third week, has resulted in the deaths of more than 1,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and 46 Israelis, including 43 soldiers. In a phone call with Netanyahu Sunday afternoon, President Obama condemned Hamas's rocket attacks on Israel and said the Jewish state had a right to defend itself, but said the United States had "serious and growing concern" about the violence and what Obama termed a "worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza," according to a White House account. Obama, according to the White House, pressed Netanyahu for a immediate and unconditional cease-fire that could then lead to broader talks about a longer-term truce. Netanyahu has said the Israeli assault will continue until its security needs have been met, and the chances of a diplomatic solution seem increasingly remote.
Flynn, who was forced to retire early after clashing with his superiors, wasn't the only top American official at the security forum here to express profound concern about the chaos in the Mideast.
Matthew Olsen, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said the Syrian civil war posed a direct threat to the U.S. homeland because growing numbers of foreigners were taking part in the fighting there, gaining battlefield experience they could potentially use against targets in both United States and Europe. Foreign fighters are of enormous concern to Western security officials because they have European or American passports, making it easy for them to return to the United States and plan potential new attacks.
Olsen said at least 12,000 foreigners were taking part in the war against Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad, up from 7,000 a few months ago, including at least 1,000 Europeans and at least 100 Americans. Olsen said some of the Americans had returned to the United States, but stressed that many were being tracked and monitored by the FBI.
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, speaking on the same Friday panel, said the intensifying conflict in the Gaza Strip threatened to further "fuel" the ranks of foreign fighters inside Syria. "It may contribute to the number of individuals who feel that they want to become part of the fight, but not necessarily in Gaza," Mueller said.
FBI Director Mueller was at center of alleged BCCI coverup in 1991
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May 26, 2009 - As the foiled Newburgh "terrorist plot" is increasingly revealed to be little more than a sham, it raises questions about why the FBI would have ...
How Doj Cover-Up of FBI Murders Enabled 9/11 Attacks
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Rodey Stich - 2012
He was in the U.S. Attorney's office responsible for prosecuting people involved in the BCCI bank scandal that was more of a cover-up than prosecution. Charles ...
Crimes of the FBI-Doj, Mafia, and Al Qaeda
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Rodney Stich - 2009 - Mafia
He was in the U.S. Attorney's office responsible for prosecuting people involved in the BCCI bank scandal that was more of a cover-up than prosecution. Charles ...
DOJ-Judicial Crimes Against the People: - Google Books Result
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Captain Rodney Stich - 2014 - History
Mueller Cover-Up In BCCI Scandal A Wall Street Journal editorial (May 31, 2002) ... [to FBI director], we raised questions about his handling of the BCCI scandal ...
Crimes Ol the CIA-Doj, and the Mafia - Page 140 - Google Books Result
books.google.com/books?isbn=0932438261
Rodney Stich - 2008 - True Crime
Mueller Cover-Up In BCCI Scandal A Wall Street Journal editorial (May 31, 2002) ... [to FBI director], we raised questions about his handling of the BCCI scandal ...
Those Ugly Americans: 20th & 21st Centuries - Google Books Result
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Rodney Stich - 2006
He's implicated in the Boston FBI cover-up and trial of former FBI agent John ... Mueller Cover-Up In BCCI Scandal A Wall Street Journal editorial (May 31, 2002) ...
FBI, CIA, the Mob, and Treachery - Page 451 - Google Books Result
books.google.com/books?isbn=0932438458
Rodney Stich - 2006 - Mafia
By doing this, Britain helped precipitate BCCI's status as an ―offshore‖ financial ... CIA agents Priscu and Hebert had acknowledged their cover-up of these ...
From BCCI to ISI: The Saga of Entrapment Continues
books.google.com/books?isbn=0973368764
Abid Ullah Jan - 2006 - Business & Economics
The FBI arrived in Venice just hours after the 9/11 attacks. ... “There is a demonstrable, provable, and massive federally-supervised coverup in place in Florida.
BCCI - The Dirtiest Bank of All
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/socio ... ing118.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
B.C.C.I. even accomplished a Stealth-like invasion of the U.S. banking industry by secretly ..... Yet the evidence of a cover-up is mounting: ... The U.S. Attorney General has assigned only a handful of FBI agents to its Washington grand jury ...
2nd read
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The Cable
Top Pentagon Intel Official: No Mideast Peace 'In My Lifetime'
JULY 27, 2014 - 03:27 PM
This story has been updated.
ASPEN, Colo. -- A top Pentagon intelligence official said he saw no prospect of Mideast peace in the decades to come, a strikingly pessimistic assessment of one of the Obama administration's top foreign policy priorities.
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who will be stepping down from his post as the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency later this year, told an audience at the Aspen Security Forum that Israel needed to carefully calibrate its current military offensive in Gaza so that it punished Hamas without fully eradicating it. If it did, Flynn warned that Gaza could fall under the sway of the extremist group that now control broad swaths of Syria and Iraq.
"If Hamas were fully destroyed and gone, we would probably end up with something much worse. The region would end up with something much worse," Flynn said Saturday night. "It would be a worse threat that could come into the ecosystem and be more dangerous, something like an [Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham] or an [Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]."
Flynn told the crowd that the instability wracking the region was likely to continue well into the future. "Is there going to be peace in the Middle East? Not in my lifetime," he said.
The DIA chief's unusually blunt comments came on a weekend of violence in Gaza, where the death toll for both Israelis and Palestinians has been steadily rising.
The two sides had agreed to a 24-hour humanitarian cease-fire Saturday, and Israel offered to extend the agreement by another 12 hours. Hamas rejected the extension, and on Sunday morning resumed its missile attacks on Tel Aviv. Israel responded with a barrage of new airstrikes on Gaza targets across Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told "Fox News Sunday" that Israel would continue its offensive against Hamas until the militant group stopped lobbing rockets into Israel or using its tunnels to infiltrate Israeli territory to mount new attacks or kidnap soldiers or civilians.
"Hamas has broken five cease-fires," Netanyahu said. "They've violated their own cease-fires. They are firing on us now. ... We'll do whatever is necessary to achieve our goal of a sustained quiet."
The conflict, now entering its third week, has resulted in the deaths of more than 1,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and 46 Israelis, including 43 soldiers. In a phone call with Netanyahu Sunday afternoon, President Obama condemned Hamas's rocket attacks on Israel and said the Jewish state had a right to defend itself, but said the United States had "serious and growing concern" about the violence and what Obama termed a "worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza," according to a White House account. Obama, according to the White House, pressed Netanyahu for a immediate and unconditional cease-fire that could then lead to broader talks about a longer-term truce. Netanyahu has said the Israeli assault will continue until its security needs have been met, and the chances of a diplomatic solution seem increasingly remote.
Flynn, who was forced to retire early after clashing with his superiors, wasn't the only top American official at the security forum here to express profound concern about the chaos in the Mideast.
Matthew Olsen, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said the Syrian civil war posed a direct threat to the U.S. homeland because growing numbers of foreigners were taking part in the fighting there, gaining battlefield experience they could potentially use against targets in both United States and Europe. Foreign fighters are of enormous concern to Western security officials because they have European or American passports, making it easy for them to return to the United States and plan potential new attacks.
Olsen said at least 12,000 foreigners were taking part in the war against Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad, up from 7,000 a few months ago, including at least 1,000 Europeans and at least 100 Americans. Olsen said some of the Americans had returned to the United States, but stressed that many were being tracked and monitored by the FBI.
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, speaking on the same Friday panel, said the intensifying conflict in the Gaza Strip threatened to further "fuel" the ranks of foreign fighters inside Syria. "It may contribute to the number of individuals who feel that they want to become part of the fight, but not necessarily in Gaza," Mueller said.
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Trial over Oklahoma City bombing evidence wraps up; FBI accused of threatening witness
July 31, 2014
SALT LAKE CITY — A trial over evidence and conspiracy theories from the Oklahoma City bombing wrapped up here, with a shocking twist.
As a trial over documents and videotape the FBI had from the 1995 bombing that killed 168 ended on Thursday, the man suing the federal government claimed one of his witnesses had been told not to show up — or else.
Jesse Trentadue said John Matthews, whom he claimed worked as an undercover government operative in the militia movement in the 1990s, had been contacted by an FBI agent and told “it would be best if he didn’t show up to testify.”
“He was told he should take a vacation and that if he did testify he should suffer from a case of the ‘I don’t remembers,'” Trentadue told U.S. District Court Judge Clark Waddoups.
Trentadue told FOX 13 that Matthews had known convicted bomber Timothy McVeigh and worked for the government in an operation targeting the patriot militia movement known as “PATCON.”
“He was part of an operation the FBI ran for a decade during the ’90s where they would infiltrate, and it’s questionable whether they incited the right wing,” he told FOX 13.
Lawyers for the FBI denied the allegation and said it was Matthews who had contacted them asking how he could get out of testifying. Matthews could not be located to testify, they told the judge.
“This is a serious accusation,” Judge Waddoups said.
He ordered the FBI agent who spoke with Matthews to appear before him next month in a hearing to ferret out the truth.
Lawyers for the FBI left the federal courthouse refusing to comment to FOX 13.
The accusation came as the trial over Oklahoma City bombing evidence wrapped up. Trentadue is suing the FBI for a videotape he claims shows a Ryder truck pulling up to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on the morning of April 19, 1995, pulling into a stall and two people walking away from it.
Three minutes later, Trentadue claims, the bomb goes off.
“It shows two people at the scene and the government says it only shows one,” Trentadue said. “McVeigh and I suspect that second suspect may be one of their undercover guys.”
Trentadue filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the evidence and when it wasn’t produced, he sued. The FBI insists the videotape simply does not exist. On Thursday, they called three retired FBI agents who worked the Oklahoma City bombing investigation to the witness stand who each insisted no such tape existed.
To bolster his case, Trentadue introduced into evidence an FBI lead sheet that had been heavily redacted. It claims that the ATF and FBI had “prior knowledge of the bomb” and the agencies had attempted to set up a “sting operation and did not take the bomb threat seriously.”
An investigative file from the Oklahoma City bombing entered into evidence in a FOIA trial over unreleased video in the 1995 bombing that killed 168.
An investigative file from the Oklahoma City bombing entered into evidence in a FOIA trial over unreleased video in the 1995 bombing that killed 168.
The trial stems from Trentadue’s overall case against the government over the death of his brother, Kenneth. In 1995, he was picked up in Oklahoma on a parole violation. Jesse Trentadue alleges his brother was mistaken for an Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator and beaten to death during an interrogation.
The FBI insists Kenneth Trentadue hung himself in his prison cell.
“The government spent 20 years and who knows how much money to cover up this ugly story,” Jesse Trentadue told FOX 13. “And the ugly story is there is no doubt the FBI knew at least four months in advance the Murrah Building was going to be bombed and didn’t stop it.”
Judge Waddoups took Jesse Trentadue’s FOIA lawsuit under advisement. A ruling is expected by the end of the year.
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Trial over Oklahoma City bombing evidence wraps up; FBI accused of threatening witness
July 31, 2014
SALT LAKE CITY — A trial over evidence and conspiracy theories from the Oklahoma City bombing wrapped up here, with a shocking twist.
As a trial over documents and videotape the FBI had from the 1995 bombing that killed 168 ended on Thursday, the man suing the federal government claimed one of his witnesses had been told not to show up — or else.
Jesse Trentadue said John Matthews, whom he claimed worked as an undercover government operative in the militia movement in the 1990s, had been contacted by an FBI agent and told “it would be best if he didn’t show up to testify.”
“He was told he should take a vacation and that if he did testify he should suffer from a case of the ‘I don’t remembers,'” Trentadue told U.S. District Court Judge Clark Waddoups.
Trentadue told FOX 13 that Matthews had known convicted bomber Timothy McVeigh and worked for the government in an operation targeting the patriot militia movement known as “PATCON.”
“He was part of an operation the FBI ran for a decade during the ’90s where they would infiltrate, and it’s questionable whether they incited the right wing,” he told FOX 13.
Lawyers for the FBI denied the allegation and said it was Matthews who had contacted them asking how he could get out of testifying. Matthews could not be located to testify, they told the judge.
“This is a serious accusation,” Judge Waddoups said.
He ordered the FBI agent who spoke with Matthews to appear before him next month in a hearing to ferret out the truth.
Lawyers for the FBI left the federal courthouse refusing to comment to FOX 13.
The accusation came as the trial over Oklahoma City bombing evidence wrapped up. Trentadue is suing the FBI for a videotape he claims shows a Ryder truck pulling up to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on the morning of April 19, 1995, pulling into a stall and two people walking away from it.
Three minutes later, Trentadue claims, the bomb goes off.
“It shows two people at the scene and the government says it only shows one,” Trentadue said. “McVeigh and I suspect that second suspect may be one of their undercover guys.”
Trentadue filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the evidence and when it wasn’t produced, he sued. The FBI insists the videotape simply does not exist. On Thursday, they called three retired FBI agents who worked the Oklahoma City bombing investigation to the witness stand who each insisted no such tape existed.
To bolster his case, Trentadue introduced into evidence an FBI lead sheet that had been heavily redacted. It claims that the ATF and FBI had “prior knowledge of the bomb” and the agencies had attempted to set up a “sting operation and did not take the bomb threat seriously.”
An investigative file from the Oklahoma City bombing entered into evidence in a FOIA trial over unreleased video in the 1995 bombing that killed 168.
An investigative file from the Oklahoma City bombing entered into evidence in a FOIA trial over unreleased video in the 1995 bombing that killed 168.
The trial stems from Trentadue’s overall case against the government over the death of his brother, Kenneth. In 1995, he was picked up in Oklahoma on a parole violation. Jesse Trentadue alleges his brother was mistaken for an Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator and beaten to death during an interrogation.
The FBI insists Kenneth Trentadue hung himself in his prison cell.
“The government spent 20 years and who knows how much money to cover up this ugly story,” Jesse Trentadue told FOX 13. “And the ugly story is there is no doubt the FBI knew at least four months in advance the Murrah Building was going to be bombed and didn’t stop it.”
Judge Waddoups took Jesse Trentadue’s FOIA lawsuit under advisement. A ruling is expected by the end of the year.
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msfreeh
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still don't get it how FBI agents use the media and voter fraud to elect real Americans to Congress and the Senate who reflect the self interests of Exxon Mobil?
In other news.....
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California governor declares emergency amid fires
Updated 8:35 am, Sunday, August 3, 2014
A 20-person handcrew from Sheridan, Ore.'s JC Orozco Reforestation conducts a burn out operation on the western flank of the Oregon Gulch Fire burning south of Highway 66 in the area of the Soda Mountain Wilderness in Oregon. Officials said the fire was started by lightning on Thursday. Photo: Jamie Lusch, AP / Medford Mail Tribune
A 20-person handcrew from Sheridan, Ore.'s JC Orozco Reforestation conducts a burn out operation on the western flank of the Oregon Gulch Fire burning south of Highway 66 in the area of the Soda Mountain Wilderness in Oregon. Officials said the fire was started by lightning on Thursday. Photo: Jamie Lusch, AP
A 20-person handcrew from Sheridan, Ore.'s JC Orozco Reforestation conducts a burn out operation on the western flank of the Oregon Gulch Fire burning south of Highway 66 in the area of the Soda Mountain Wilderness in Oregon. Officials said the fire was started by lightning on Thursday.
Nancy and Victor Rineman of Phoenix, Ore. stand in front of the entrance to their destroyed 20-acre summer retreat where five cabins once stood in the area of the Soda Mountain Wilderness in Oregon. Officials said the fire was started by lightning on Thursday.
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Plumes of smoke rise from the Oregon Gulch Fire burning south of Highway 66 in the area of the Soda Mountain Wilderness in Oregon. Officials said the fire was started by lightning on Thursday.
This Monday, July 28, 2014 photo released Thursday, July 31, 2014 by the U.S. Forest Service, shows flames and smoke in the Sierra National Forest, Calif. On Thursday, Fire crews are battling a blaze in Sierra National Forest about 60 miles northeast of Fresno, Calif. that was creeping closer to the Mammoth Pool Reservoir, a popular recreation spot that supplies drinking water.
The Oregon Gulch fire, burns in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument east of Ashland, Ore., on Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. Buildings have burned, but there are no reports of injuries from a wildfire that was touched off by lightning along the Oregon-California border and led to the evacuation of ranch families east of Ashland, a fire spokesman says.
— A fast-growing wildfire along the Oregon-California border spurred evacuation notices even as California's governor declared a state of emergency to help fight blazes raging in the state.
Gov. Jerry Brown's order Saturday night came as fires in other West Coast states burned through parched forests, brush and terrain, destroying some homes, threatening many others and forcing evacuations.
In California, dry lightning, high temperatures and severe drought conditions exacerbated the fire danger as more than a dozen significant wildfires flared, some of which also damaged or destroyed dwellings and prompted residents to flee.
Brown's proclamation said that the circumstances and magnitude of the wildfires are beyond the control of any single local government and will require the combined forces of regions to combat.
To that end, he secured a federal grant on Saturday to cover 75 percent of the cost to fight a wildfire that started in Oregon and crossed into California. The lightning-sparked Oregon Gulch fire destroyed at least 3 homes and was threatening about 270 structures on both sides of the border, authorities said.
By midnight Saturday, officials said the blaze had burned across 50 square miles of land, compared with 33 square miles earlier in the day.
In other news.....
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California governor declares emergency amid fires
Updated 8:35 am, Sunday, August 3, 2014
A 20-person handcrew from Sheridan, Ore.'s JC Orozco Reforestation conducts a burn out operation on the western flank of the Oregon Gulch Fire burning south of Highway 66 in the area of the Soda Mountain Wilderness in Oregon. Officials said the fire was started by lightning on Thursday. Photo: Jamie Lusch, AP / Medford Mail Tribune
A 20-person handcrew from Sheridan, Ore.'s JC Orozco Reforestation conducts a burn out operation on the western flank of the Oregon Gulch Fire burning south of Highway 66 in the area of the Soda Mountain Wilderness in Oregon. Officials said the fire was started by lightning on Thursday. Photo: Jamie Lusch, AP
A 20-person handcrew from Sheridan, Ore.'s JC Orozco Reforestation conducts a burn out operation on the western flank of the Oregon Gulch Fire burning south of Highway 66 in the area of the Soda Mountain Wilderness in Oregon. Officials said the fire was started by lightning on Thursday.
Nancy and Victor Rineman of Phoenix, Ore. stand in front of the entrance to their destroyed 20-acre summer retreat where five cabins once stood in the area of the Soda Mountain Wilderness in Oregon. Officials said the fire was started by lightning on Thursday.
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Plumes of smoke rise from the Oregon Gulch Fire burning south of Highway 66 in the area of the Soda Mountain Wilderness in Oregon. Officials said the fire was started by lightning on Thursday.
This Monday, July 28, 2014 photo released Thursday, July 31, 2014 by the U.S. Forest Service, shows flames and smoke in the Sierra National Forest, Calif. On Thursday, Fire crews are battling a blaze in Sierra National Forest about 60 miles northeast of Fresno, Calif. that was creeping closer to the Mammoth Pool Reservoir, a popular recreation spot that supplies drinking water.
The Oregon Gulch fire, burns in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument east of Ashland, Ore., on Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. Buildings have burned, but there are no reports of injuries from a wildfire that was touched off by lightning along the Oregon-California border and led to the evacuation of ranch families east of Ashland, a fire spokesman says.
— A fast-growing wildfire along the Oregon-California border spurred evacuation notices even as California's governor declared a state of emergency to help fight blazes raging in the state.
Gov. Jerry Brown's order Saturday night came as fires in other West Coast states burned through parched forests, brush and terrain, destroying some homes, threatening many others and forcing evacuations.
In California, dry lightning, high temperatures and severe drought conditions exacerbated the fire danger as more than a dozen significant wildfires flared, some of which also damaged or destroyed dwellings and prompted residents to flee.
Brown's proclamation said that the circumstances and magnitude of the wildfires are beyond the control of any single local government and will require the combined forces of regions to combat.
To that end, he secured a federal grant on Saturday to cover 75 percent of the cost to fight a wildfire that started in Oregon and crossed into California. The lightning-sparked Oregon Gulch fire destroyed at least 3 homes and was threatening about 270 structures on both sides of the border, authorities said.
By midnight Saturday, officials said the blaze had burned across 50 square miles of land, compared with 33 square miles earlier in the day.
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Or just read the Cointel-Pro papers. Massive documentation of how the FBI infiltrated organizations in the 60s and setup all kinds of false flags and other frame-ups. Now they're much more careful to avoid documentation that might get leaked, but their MO is the same. The Boston marathon bombing is a rehash of the same thing they were doing over 40 years ago, just on a bigger scale. It's all there if anyone cares to look.
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gruden2.0 wrote:Or just read the Cointel-Pro papers. Massive documentation of how the FBI infiltrated organizations in the 60s and setup all kinds of false flags and other frame-ups. Now they're much more careful to avoid documentation that might get leaked, but their MO is the same. The Boston marathon bombing is a rehash of the same thing they were doing over 40 years ago, just on a bigger scale. It's all there if anyone cares to look.
We brought Ward Churchill to speak in our community.
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Four More American Drug Planes Seized
Posted on August 2, 2014 by Daniel Hopsicker
ImageFour more American-registered drug planes have been seized from the 50-plane fleet of drug running aircraft amassed by Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Figures of interest in the transactions, the MadCowMorningNews has learned, include financial backers of two of this year's Republican candidates for President, as well as, unsurprisingly, an aviation company in St. Petersburg, FL. which can justifiably be called "one of the usual suspects."
Coincidentally or not, the American owners of the four planes (like the two busted earlier) were largely people and companies with 'special relationships' with U.S. political movers and shakers, including the CIA and the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security.
Yet, despite this inconvenient fact, the FBI persists in referring to the aircraft's American owners as "legitimate aircraft brokers" and "unwitting sellers"
Four More American Drug Planes Seized
Posted on August 2, 2014 by Daniel Hopsicker
ImageFour more American-registered drug planes have been seized from the 50-plane fleet of drug running aircraft amassed by Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Figures of interest in the transactions, the MadCowMorningNews has learned, include financial backers of two of this year's Republican candidates for President, as well as, unsurprisingly, an aviation company in St. Petersburg, FL. which can justifiably be called "one of the usual suspects."
Coincidentally or not, the American owners of the four planes (like the two busted earlier) were largely people and companies with 'special relationships' with U.S. political movers and shakers, including the CIA and the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security.
Yet, despite this inconvenient fact, the FBI persists in referring to the aircraft's American owners as "legitimate aircraft brokers" and "unwitting sellers"
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Trial starts for ex-FBI agent, wife accused of $1.3M fraud
Published: April 24, 2012
The jury trial of a former FBI agent and his wife accused of defrauding 11 central Virginians out of $1.3 million began in U.S. District Court in Richmond on Monday.
John Robert Graves, 52, and Sara Turberville Graves, 44, of Fredericksburg are charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, mail fraud and four counts of wire fraud.
John Graves, who resigned as a special agent in 1999, also is charged with three counts of Investment Adviser Act fraud and one count of making false statements. The crimes were alleged to have occurred starting in 2008.
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Trial starts for ex-FBI agent, wife accused of $1.3M fraud
Published: April 24, 2012
The jury trial of a former FBI agent and his wife accused of defrauding 11 central Virginians out of $1.3 million began in U.S. District Court in Richmond on Monday.
John Robert Graves, 52, and Sara Turberville Graves, 44, of Fredericksburg are charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, mail fraud and four counts of wire fraud.
John Graves, who resigned as a special agent in 1999, also is charged with three counts of Investment Adviser Act fraud and one count of making false statements. The crimes were alleged to have occurred starting in 2008.
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PEDOPHILES AND CHILD PORN- THE COPS, JUDGES, DAs, FBI AGENTS, SECRET SERVICE AGENTS AND OTHER GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES WHO CAN'T KEEP THEIR HANDS OFF MINORS
Written by Norma Jean Almodovar
Saturday, 10 November 2012 00:00
VISIT THE ROGUES GALLERY- (Part I- Pedophile cops)
THE WORST OF THE WORST- COPS WHO RAPE CHILDREN and BABIES...
http://www.policeprostitutionandpolitic ... &Itemid=50" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
John Mitchell Tomlinson michael palmer Clyde Franklin Jr
John Mitchell Tomlinson Police Chief Michael Palmer Chief Deputy Clyde Franklin Sanders Jr.
"EVEN ONE IS TOO MANY"
Can you imagine being a child and raped by any of these three wonderful examples of law enforcement agents? The officer in the green jumpsuit is John Mitchell Tomlinson, Sheriff Deputy in Santa Rosa, Florida. He was sentenced to thirty years in prison for multiple sexual assaults on his adopted daughter as well as a neighbor child.
The officer in the orange jumpsuit is Police Chief Michael Palmer, who was not only arrested for his sexual exploitation of young boys under the age of 10, but also for stealing drugs from elderly people... and a host of other criminal activity. Since he was the CHIEF OF POLICE, who would a child victim go to for help? He has not yet gone to trial, so no idea what his punishment, if any, will be. Perhaps he will be as lucky as Pike County Ohio Chief Deputy Clyde Franklin Sanders Jr. who was recently sentenced to 'community control' (probation) for raping a three year old girl- TWICE...
GO TO THE LIST OF PREDATOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENTS
1960-69 1970-79 1980-89 1990-94 1995
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
According to the prostitution abolitionists/ victim pimps who claim to want to stop child sexual exploitation through the eradication of all prostitution, even ‘one child victim is too many.’ And while they may be correct that one IS too many, why do they overlook the far greater source of child sexual exploitation? How many law enforcement agents must be exposed as pedophiles and sexual exploiters of minors before society does something about this very serious problem? How many child victims of cops are 'too many'? At what point do we start a crusade to crack down on pedophile law enforcement agents? Aren't the child victims of predators with badges as important to society as the child victims of sex trafficking? Or do we only care about 'the children' when money is involved, as the 'victim pimps' are?
When will reporters like Steve Lopez of the LA Times be 'in favor of doing whatever it takes' to stop these far more numerous predators from harming children- male and female? Instead of 'getting tough on underage prostitution,' shouldn't he and his colleagues favor 'getting tough' on underage sexual exploitation' at the hands of the priests, preachers, teachers, coaches, parents, Hollywood moguls and law enforcement agents? Why do these people favor increased penalties and enforcement of laws which do not also apply to the victims of 'pillars of the community'? Would it help any child actor victim to arrest adults who have consensual sex with each other? What neither he or his fellow reporters understand is that the supposed crusade against underage prostitution has NOTHING to do with protecting children. It is a crusade against all adult commercial sex- from porn to stripping to prostitution.
If he or his media colleagues were truly interested in stopping the sexual abuse of minors, they would get behind the decriminalization of consenting adult commercial sex so that there were sufficient resources to pursue all the predators of children. It is understandable why they don't... there are too many people who would strongly protest if the media attacked the pedophile teachers (teachers unions would jump all over them), or if they attacked the religious leaders (just look at how many people protested the coverage of the pedophile priests...), same for the cops- the police unions nationwide are very, very powerful. And as for the Hollywood producers, agents etc. who are molesting children (according to Corey Feldman, former child actor who said that pedophilia was Hollywood's big secret)- well, LA is a company town and the 'company' is show business. We can't bite the hands that feed us... And besides, except for the lawyers, there is no funding to fight pedophile cops or priests or teachers... and if there is no money in it, why would anyone bother?
UPDATE JANUARY 11, 2014: the 2010 National Police Misconduct Annual Report
The CATO Institute's 2010 Annual Report is now available- and here's what it says about police sexual misconduct, particularly with regard to minors:
"Officer-involved sexual misconduct describes an entire subset of police misconduct that includes non-criminal complaints such as consensual sexual activity that occurs while an officer is on-duty, sexual harassment, up to felony acts of sexual assault or child molestation. Sexual misconduct was the second most common form of misconduct reported throughout 2010 with 618 officers involved in sexual misconduct complaints during that period, 354 of which were involved in complaints that involved forcible non-consensual sexual activity such as sexual assault or sexual battery.
Of the officers associated with reports of serious sexual misconduct, 51% (180) were involved with reports that involved minors and 49% (174) involved adults. However, of the 479 alleged victims of serious sexual misconduct which were tracked, 52% (249) were minors and 48% (230) were adults. This would appear to indicate that minors are victims of alleged serial offenders slightly more often than adults. Of the 354 officers involved with serious sexual misconduct reports, 56 law enforcement officers were involved in allegations where multiple victims were involved."
In many states, law enforcement agencies do not report crimes like these committed by their rank and file members. They are concerned about the ramifications of releasing such damaging information to the public. Additionally, in many cities, police union rules do not allow the names or photos of the offending officers to be released. What would it do to public confidence in law enforcement if the citizens knew how very many officers engaged in sex with minors? Or who raped prostitutes or other women they encounter in the course of their work? Or who stole drugs and drug money from suspected drug dealers?
Male and female cops, judges, DAs, FBI agents, Secret Service and TSA agents involved with minors under 18, juveniles under 14- predators who download OR produce child pornography... Who knew there were so very many of these twisted individuals working in positions of power- "pillars of the community" who are trusted by the victims and their parents? And yet, more people are concerned about the possibility of underage persons becoming 'sex slaves' than they are about the real victims who ARE being sexually exploited... why is that?
NOTE: IF YOUR NAME IS ON THIS LIST AND YOU DID NOT DO THE CRIME AND CAN PROVE IT, I WILL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO REMOVE YOUR NAME. I KNOW THAT IF YOU ARE AN HONEST COP WHO PISSED OFF YOUR COLLEAGUES, IT IS ALL TOO EASY TO BE CHARGED WITH A CRIME IN ORDER TO RETALIATE AGAINST TROUBLEMAKERS. AND THERE IS NOTHING WORSE THAN BEING CALLED A CHILD MOLESTER! EVEN IF YOU CAN PROVE YOUR INNOCENCE, MANY PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS BELIEVE THAT THERE MUST BE SOMETHING TO THE ALLEGATIONS IF A PROSECUTOR GOES TO ALL THAT TROUBLE OF FILING CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST YOU (WHERE THERE IS SMOKE THERE MUST BE FIRE!!!).
Over and over, ideologically biased journalists try to pull a fast one on the public with their stories about the child sex trafficking through adult ad venues like backpage.com and try to pressure these sites to 'close down' to prevent more children from being victims. If the solution to the problem of the '50 victims from 22 states over three years' is to shut down adult ads of which there are millions posted every day, then what is the solution to the more than 300 pedophile law enforcement/ government agents in 50 states over two years (2011-2012)? There were over 200 in 2012 alone, and so far this year (2013) we have listed over 125, and more are arrested every day!
Why is there no outrage over the lenient sentencing that the majority of these law enforcement pedophiles receive? When there is even the slightest suggestion that a backpage.com buyer of prostitution services may have had sex with a minor, the public demands that the perpetrator spend the rest of his life behind bars for 'sex trafficking'... even if the 'victim' was 17 years of age, but when a cop like Jason Elder pleads guilty to 140 felonies involving a girl of 14 and receives a THREE YEAR sentence, no one seems to care. And why is there no lynch mob gathering in Pike County Ohio after the recent sentencing of the Chief Deputy (now 'former') Clyde Franklin Sanders Jr. who was allowed to plead "no contest" to a single count of 'gross sexual imposition' - where upon he received NO prison time and only 5 years of "community control" - for raping a three year old girl- TWICE... A THREE YEAR OLD GIRL WHOM HE KNEW - Sanders "originally faces two counts of kidnapping, one count of rape and one count of gross sexual imposition, but they were amended to the single count he pleaded no contest to in April (2013)" He raped the child in October 2008 and again in January 2009... and received NO PRISON TIME....
Obviously it is much easier to locate the more recent cases but that doesn't mean that the cops/ DAs, judges, elected officials and other government employees were not misbehaving every year. Before I post anyone's name here, I must verify the facts, and finding articles from earlier years requires much more investigation. As the States Attorneys General who sent a letter to backpage.com requesting that they shut down their adult ads so eloquently put it- 'these cases are just the tip of the iceberg...'
Pedophile law enforcement agents are not limited to the US. These predators can be found the world over- going back in time to when the concept of law enforcement agents began. One horrific story we recently came across is from Canada. Not only did this very evil cop get away with his crimes for decades, there is evidence that his colleagues not only covered up for his crimes, but may have enabled him in controlling his victims- boys and girls. On September, 30, 2013, Carmen Chai, of the Canadian Global News, reported on the massive child abuse scandal that took place in a town near Toronto, involving New Brunswick police officer Sergeant Kenneth Estabrooks, who targeted vulnerable children for at least 25 years. Canadian investigators suspect him of sexually abusing at least 260 children over the course of nearly three decades. Estabrooks died of cancer in 2005, but not before he was convicted of four counts of indecent assault sometime after 1999, and sentenced to a mere 6 years in prison.
One of the victims, who alleges he was raped by Estabrooks at least 60 times over the course of three years, claims that Estabrooks had help from colleagues on the police force whenever he couldn't find his victims. "If he couldn't get a hold of us, then he had some policemen on the force look out for us..." said the victim. Did those policemen know why he wanted the victims brought to him? One victim was six years old. Estabrooks continued to sexually assault this child for years, at least two or three times a week. And not unlike the Catholic Priests who did the same to THEIR victims, even when this sick, perverted cop confessed to the original accusations, he was NOT charged at the time, but was instead 'quietly moved to a city works job.' But remember- these law enforcement agents were NOT paying for their predations, so apparently they do not count when it comes to 'protecting the children.'
You can either click the link provided which will take you to the pdfs I created from the news articles, or you can do your own research by putting the year, name and location of the officer/ judge/ government agent in a search engine. I do not expect you to take my word for it- these are horrendous allegations of an astounding number of government employees.
If you know the outcome of any of these cases- or you know of other cases which are not cited here, by all means contact me with the links and I will add them. normajeanalmodovar [at] gmail.com
The following websites were used to compile this data:
Police Misconduct CATO Institute
Tribute to Survivors of Child Sexual Assault By Law Enforcement Officers
Police Thugs
Fedcops
CopBlock.org
What Happened to Protect and Serve?
Corrupt Justice
thisweekschildmolestationbypolic.blogspot.com/
child molestors Police Chief Magazine - View Article.pdf
And many others. Thanks to the courageous individuals who risk retaliation from law enforcement officers by exposing the bad ones.
Written by Norma Jean Almodovar
Saturday, 10 November 2012 00:00
VISIT THE ROGUES GALLERY- (Part I- Pedophile cops)
THE WORST OF THE WORST- COPS WHO RAPE CHILDREN and BABIES...
http://www.policeprostitutionandpolitic ... &Itemid=50" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
John Mitchell Tomlinson michael palmer Clyde Franklin Jr
John Mitchell Tomlinson Police Chief Michael Palmer Chief Deputy Clyde Franklin Sanders Jr.
"EVEN ONE IS TOO MANY"
Can you imagine being a child and raped by any of these three wonderful examples of law enforcement agents? The officer in the green jumpsuit is John Mitchell Tomlinson, Sheriff Deputy in Santa Rosa, Florida. He was sentenced to thirty years in prison for multiple sexual assaults on his adopted daughter as well as a neighbor child.
The officer in the orange jumpsuit is Police Chief Michael Palmer, who was not only arrested for his sexual exploitation of young boys under the age of 10, but also for stealing drugs from elderly people... and a host of other criminal activity. Since he was the CHIEF OF POLICE, who would a child victim go to for help? He has not yet gone to trial, so no idea what his punishment, if any, will be. Perhaps he will be as lucky as Pike County Ohio Chief Deputy Clyde Franklin Sanders Jr. who was recently sentenced to 'community control' (probation) for raping a three year old girl- TWICE...
GO TO THE LIST OF PREDATOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENTS
1960-69 1970-79 1980-89 1990-94 1995
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
According to the prostitution abolitionists/ victim pimps who claim to want to stop child sexual exploitation through the eradication of all prostitution, even ‘one child victim is too many.’ And while they may be correct that one IS too many, why do they overlook the far greater source of child sexual exploitation? How many law enforcement agents must be exposed as pedophiles and sexual exploiters of minors before society does something about this very serious problem? How many child victims of cops are 'too many'? At what point do we start a crusade to crack down on pedophile law enforcement agents? Aren't the child victims of predators with badges as important to society as the child victims of sex trafficking? Or do we only care about 'the children' when money is involved, as the 'victim pimps' are?
When will reporters like Steve Lopez of the LA Times be 'in favor of doing whatever it takes' to stop these far more numerous predators from harming children- male and female? Instead of 'getting tough on underage prostitution,' shouldn't he and his colleagues favor 'getting tough' on underage sexual exploitation' at the hands of the priests, preachers, teachers, coaches, parents, Hollywood moguls and law enforcement agents? Why do these people favor increased penalties and enforcement of laws which do not also apply to the victims of 'pillars of the community'? Would it help any child actor victim to arrest adults who have consensual sex with each other? What neither he or his fellow reporters understand is that the supposed crusade against underage prostitution has NOTHING to do with protecting children. It is a crusade against all adult commercial sex- from porn to stripping to prostitution.
If he or his media colleagues were truly interested in stopping the sexual abuse of minors, they would get behind the decriminalization of consenting adult commercial sex so that there were sufficient resources to pursue all the predators of children. It is understandable why they don't... there are too many people who would strongly protest if the media attacked the pedophile teachers (teachers unions would jump all over them), or if they attacked the religious leaders (just look at how many people protested the coverage of the pedophile priests...), same for the cops- the police unions nationwide are very, very powerful. And as for the Hollywood producers, agents etc. who are molesting children (according to Corey Feldman, former child actor who said that pedophilia was Hollywood's big secret)- well, LA is a company town and the 'company' is show business. We can't bite the hands that feed us... And besides, except for the lawyers, there is no funding to fight pedophile cops or priests or teachers... and if there is no money in it, why would anyone bother?
UPDATE JANUARY 11, 2014: the 2010 National Police Misconduct Annual Report
The CATO Institute's 2010 Annual Report is now available- and here's what it says about police sexual misconduct, particularly with regard to minors:
"Officer-involved sexual misconduct describes an entire subset of police misconduct that includes non-criminal complaints such as consensual sexual activity that occurs while an officer is on-duty, sexual harassment, up to felony acts of sexual assault or child molestation. Sexual misconduct was the second most common form of misconduct reported throughout 2010 with 618 officers involved in sexual misconduct complaints during that period, 354 of which were involved in complaints that involved forcible non-consensual sexual activity such as sexual assault or sexual battery.
Of the officers associated with reports of serious sexual misconduct, 51% (180) were involved with reports that involved minors and 49% (174) involved adults. However, of the 479 alleged victims of serious sexual misconduct which were tracked, 52% (249) were minors and 48% (230) were adults. This would appear to indicate that minors are victims of alleged serial offenders slightly more often than adults. Of the 354 officers involved with serious sexual misconduct reports, 56 law enforcement officers were involved in allegations where multiple victims were involved."
In many states, law enforcement agencies do not report crimes like these committed by their rank and file members. They are concerned about the ramifications of releasing such damaging information to the public. Additionally, in many cities, police union rules do not allow the names or photos of the offending officers to be released. What would it do to public confidence in law enforcement if the citizens knew how very many officers engaged in sex with minors? Or who raped prostitutes or other women they encounter in the course of their work? Or who stole drugs and drug money from suspected drug dealers?
Male and female cops, judges, DAs, FBI agents, Secret Service and TSA agents involved with minors under 18, juveniles under 14- predators who download OR produce child pornography... Who knew there were so very many of these twisted individuals working in positions of power- "pillars of the community" who are trusted by the victims and their parents? And yet, more people are concerned about the possibility of underage persons becoming 'sex slaves' than they are about the real victims who ARE being sexually exploited... why is that?
NOTE: IF YOUR NAME IS ON THIS LIST AND YOU DID NOT DO THE CRIME AND CAN PROVE IT, I WILL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO REMOVE YOUR NAME. I KNOW THAT IF YOU ARE AN HONEST COP WHO PISSED OFF YOUR COLLEAGUES, IT IS ALL TOO EASY TO BE CHARGED WITH A CRIME IN ORDER TO RETALIATE AGAINST TROUBLEMAKERS. AND THERE IS NOTHING WORSE THAN BEING CALLED A CHILD MOLESTER! EVEN IF YOU CAN PROVE YOUR INNOCENCE, MANY PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS BELIEVE THAT THERE MUST BE SOMETHING TO THE ALLEGATIONS IF A PROSECUTOR GOES TO ALL THAT TROUBLE OF FILING CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST YOU (WHERE THERE IS SMOKE THERE MUST BE FIRE!!!).
Over and over, ideologically biased journalists try to pull a fast one on the public with their stories about the child sex trafficking through adult ad venues like backpage.com and try to pressure these sites to 'close down' to prevent more children from being victims. If the solution to the problem of the '50 victims from 22 states over three years' is to shut down adult ads of which there are millions posted every day, then what is the solution to the more than 300 pedophile law enforcement/ government agents in 50 states over two years (2011-2012)? There were over 200 in 2012 alone, and so far this year (2013) we have listed over 125, and more are arrested every day!
Why is there no outrage over the lenient sentencing that the majority of these law enforcement pedophiles receive? When there is even the slightest suggestion that a backpage.com buyer of prostitution services may have had sex with a minor, the public demands that the perpetrator spend the rest of his life behind bars for 'sex trafficking'... even if the 'victim' was 17 years of age, but when a cop like Jason Elder pleads guilty to 140 felonies involving a girl of 14 and receives a THREE YEAR sentence, no one seems to care. And why is there no lynch mob gathering in Pike County Ohio after the recent sentencing of the Chief Deputy (now 'former') Clyde Franklin Sanders Jr. who was allowed to plead "no contest" to a single count of 'gross sexual imposition' - where upon he received NO prison time and only 5 years of "community control" - for raping a three year old girl- TWICE... A THREE YEAR OLD GIRL WHOM HE KNEW - Sanders "originally faces two counts of kidnapping, one count of rape and one count of gross sexual imposition, but they were amended to the single count he pleaded no contest to in April (2013)" He raped the child in October 2008 and again in January 2009... and received NO PRISON TIME....
Obviously it is much easier to locate the more recent cases but that doesn't mean that the cops/ DAs, judges, elected officials and other government employees were not misbehaving every year. Before I post anyone's name here, I must verify the facts, and finding articles from earlier years requires much more investigation. As the States Attorneys General who sent a letter to backpage.com requesting that they shut down their adult ads so eloquently put it- 'these cases are just the tip of the iceberg...'
Pedophile law enforcement agents are not limited to the US. These predators can be found the world over- going back in time to when the concept of law enforcement agents began. One horrific story we recently came across is from Canada. Not only did this very evil cop get away with his crimes for decades, there is evidence that his colleagues not only covered up for his crimes, but may have enabled him in controlling his victims- boys and girls. On September, 30, 2013, Carmen Chai, of the Canadian Global News, reported on the massive child abuse scandal that took place in a town near Toronto, involving New Brunswick police officer Sergeant Kenneth Estabrooks, who targeted vulnerable children for at least 25 years. Canadian investigators suspect him of sexually abusing at least 260 children over the course of nearly three decades. Estabrooks died of cancer in 2005, but not before he was convicted of four counts of indecent assault sometime after 1999, and sentenced to a mere 6 years in prison.
One of the victims, who alleges he was raped by Estabrooks at least 60 times over the course of three years, claims that Estabrooks had help from colleagues on the police force whenever he couldn't find his victims. "If he couldn't get a hold of us, then he had some policemen on the force look out for us..." said the victim. Did those policemen know why he wanted the victims brought to him? One victim was six years old. Estabrooks continued to sexually assault this child for years, at least two or three times a week. And not unlike the Catholic Priests who did the same to THEIR victims, even when this sick, perverted cop confessed to the original accusations, he was NOT charged at the time, but was instead 'quietly moved to a city works job.' But remember- these law enforcement agents were NOT paying for their predations, so apparently they do not count when it comes to 'protecting the children.'
You can either click the link provided which will take you to the pdfs I created from the news articles, or you can do your own research by putting the year, name and location of the officer/ judge/ government agent in a search engine. I do not expect you to take my word for it- these are horrendous allegations of an astounding number of government employees.
If you know the outcome of any of these cases- or you know of other cases which are not cited here, by all means contact me with the links and I will add them. normajeanalmodovar [at] gmail.com
The following websites were used to compile this data:
Police Misconduct CATO Institute
Tribute to Survivors of Child Sexual Assault By Law Enforcement Officers
Police Thugs
Fedcops
CopBlock.org
What Happened to Protect and Serve?
Corrupt Justice
thisweekschildmolestationbypolic.blogspot.com/
child molestors Police Chief Magazine - View Article.pdf
And many others. Thanks to the courageous individuals who risk retaliation from law enforcement officers by exposing the bad ones.
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msfreeh
- Level 34 Illuminated
- Posts: 7718
Re: interested in crimes committed by FBI agents?
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0786868031/ref=rdr_ext_tmb" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
My Country Versus Me: The First-Hand Account by the Los Alamos Scientist Who Was Falsely Accused of Being a Spy Hardcover – January 15, 2002
by Wen Ho Lee (Author), Helen Zia (Collaborator
to remind them that when politics drives criminal investigations, the first thing sacrificed is the truth. This book has a plot worthy of a John Grisham novel, with a host of powerful villains, starting with politicians on both sides of the aisle. Republicans from Christopher Cox to the appallingly ill-informed Bob Smith (who couldn't even distinguish between Wen Ho Lee and Bill Lann Lee) chose Lee as a scapegoat in order to bring down the Democratic presidency; the Democratic administration complied with the persecution so it wouldn't look soft on Chinese espionage. Other villains included Robert Messemer, the FBI agent whose repeated lying in court should have had him thrown in jail for perjury, Notra Trulock, whose mysterious hand in the investigation was never clearly defined (and who was later revealed to be a rightwing shill), and Bill Richardson, whose political aspirations are, quite rightfully, dead as dirt thanks to his performance in this matter. One must also add the combined forces of the FBI, DOE, and DOJ, all of them so intent on proving that Lee was their man that they were blind to the truth: that Lee was never a spy, and that his worst infraction was the downloading of files that he was actively working on. The reason for those downloads are explained and strike one as completely logical to anyone who has lost precious computer files during a crash, something that had happened to Lee during a previous computer fiasco at Los Alamos. (One should also add that while the FBI was spending millions of dollars pursuing Lee, September 11 was being planned right under their noses.)
But as culpable as the politicians and FBI villains are in this piece, they were, in truth, simply doing what they always do: bending the truth to get their way.Read more ›
My Country Versus Me: The First-Hand Account by the Los Alamos Scientist Who Was Falsely Accused of Being a Spy Hardcover – January 15, 2002
by Wen Ho Lee (Author), Helen Zia (Collaborator
to remind them that when politics drives criminal investigations, the first thing sacrificed is the truth. This book has a plot worthy of a John Grisham novel, with a host of powerful villains, starting with politicians on both sides of the aisle. Republicans from Christopher Cox to the appallingly ill-informed Bob Smith (who couldn't even distinguish between Wen Ho Lee and Bill Lann Lee) chose Lee as a scapegoat in order to bring down the Democratic presidency; the Democratic administration complied with the persecution so it wouldn't look soft on Chinese espionage. Other villains included Robert Messemer, the FBI agent whose repeated lying in court should have had him thrown in jail for perjury, Notra Trulock, whose mysterious hand in the investigation was never clearly defined (and who was later revealed to be a rightwing shill), and Bill Richardson, whose political aspirations are, quite rightfully, dead as dirt thanks to his performance in this matter. One must also add the combined forces of the FBI, DOE, and DOJ, all of them so intent on proving that Lee was their man that they were blind to the truth: that Lee was never a spy, and that his worst infraction was the downloading of files that he was actively working on. The reason for those downloads are explained and strike one as completely logical to anyone who has lost precious computer files during a crash, something that had happened to Lee during a previous computer fiasco at Los Alamos. (One should also add that while the FBI was spending millions of dollars pursuing Lee, September 11 was being planned right under their noses.)
But as culpable as the politicians and FBI villains are in this piece, they were, in truth, simply doing what they always do: bending the truth to get their way.Read more ›
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msfreeh
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Re: interested in crimes committed by FBI agents?
[quote="msfreeh"]The classic poster child of a homogenous community is the FBI.
I have always found the strongest communities are heterogenous
where growth of the community is driven by the diversity of its
membership. Sort of like a non mormom like msfreeh posting
at LDSFF . Remember, there are no membership dues at http://www.rigorous" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; intuition.ca.
In other news.
http://www.ticklethewire.com/2014/07/22 ... wife-gone/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Book: Secret Service Accommodates Blond Mistress for Bill Clinton When Wife Gone
Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The Secret Service was given orders to ignore former U.S. President Bill Clinton’s blond mistress when she visited the home he shares with his wife in New York, according to an upcoming book, “The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Revel the Hidden Lives of Presidents.”
The book by Ronald Kessler claims that Secret Service agents were told never to stop the woman, whose code name was “Energizer,” the Business Standard reports.
The woman arrived in the absence of Hillary Clinton, according to the book.
The book also alleges that some of President Obama’s Secret Service agents have hired prostitutes in Columbia.[/quote
here is the correct link to the website rigorousintuition.ca
http://www.rigorousintuition.ca" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
rigorous intuition
I have always found the strongest communities are heterogenous
where growth of the community is driven by the diversity of its
membership. Sort of like a non mormom like msfreeh posting
at LDSFF . Remember, there are no membership dues at http://www.rigorous" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; intuition.ca.
In other news.
http://www.ticklethewire.com/2014/07/22 ... wife-gone/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Book: Secret Service Accommodates Blond Mistress for Bill Clinton When Wife Gone
Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The Secret Service was given orders to ignore former U.S. President Bill Clinton’s blond mistress when she visited the home he shares with his wife in New York, according to an upcoming book, “The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Revel the Hidden Lives of Presidents.”
The book by Ronald Kessler claims that Secret Service agents were told never to stop the woman, whose code name was “Energizer,” the Business Standard reports.
The woman arrived in the absence of Hillary Clinton, according to the book.
The book also alleges that some of President Obama’s Secret Service agents have hired prostitutes in Columbia.[/quote
here is the correct link to the website rigorousintuition.ca
http://www.rigorousintuition.ca" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
rigorous intuition
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msfreeh
- Level 34 Illuminated
- Posts: 7718
Re: interested in crimes committed by FBI agents?
[quote="msfreeh"]The classic poster child of a homogenous community is the FBI.
I have always found the strongest communities are heterogenous
where growth of the community is driven by the diversity of its
membership. Sort of like a non mormom like msfreeh posting
at LDSFF . Remember, there are no membership dues at http://www.rigorousintuition.ca" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
In other news.
http://www.ticklethewire.com/2014/07/22 ... wife-gone/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Book: Secret Service Accommodates Blond Mistress for Bill Clinton When Wife Gone
Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The Secret Service was given orders to ignore former U.S. President Bill Clinton’s blond mistress when she visited the home he shares with his wife in New York, according to an upcoming book, “The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Revel the Hidden Lives of Presidents.”
The book by Ronald Kessler claims that Secret Service agents were told never to stop the woman, whose code name was “Energizer,” the Business Standard reports.
The woman arrived in the absence of Hillary Clinton, according to the book.
The book also alleges that some of President Obama’s Secret Service agents have hired prostitutes in Columbia.[/quote
here is the correct link to the website rigorousintuition.ca
http://www.rigorousintuition.ca" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
rigorous intuition
I have always found the strongest communities are heterogenous
where growth of the community is driven by the diversity of its
membership. Sort of like a non mormom like msfreeh posting
at LDSFF . Remember, there are no membership dues at http://www.rigorousintuition.ca" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
In other news.
http://www.ticklethewire.com/2014/07/22 ... wife-gone/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Book: Secret Service Accommodates Blond Mistress for Bill Clinton When Wife Gone
Steve Neavling
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The Secret Service was given orders to ignore former U.S. President Bill Clinton’s blond mistress when she visited the home he shares with his wife in New York, according to an upcoming book, “The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Revel the Hidden Lives of Presidents.”
The book by Ronald Kessler claims that Secret Service agents were told never to stop the woman, whose code name was “Energizer,” the Business Standard reports.
The woman arrived in the absence of Hillary Clinton, according to the book.
The book also alleges that some of President Obama’s Secret Service agents have hired prostitutes in Columbia.[/quote
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You Can Get Hacked Just By Watching This Cat Video on YouTube
By Morgan Marquis-Boire 15 Aug 2014 16
Many otherwise well-informed people think they have to do something wrong, or stupid, or insecure to get hacked—like clicking on the wrong attachments, or browsing malicious websites. People also think that the NSA and its international partners are the only ones who have turned the internet into a militarized zone. But according to research I am releasing Read more
Five Muslim-Americans Sue Feds Over Watchlisting Voices
Five Muslim-Americans Sue Feds Over Watchlisting
By Ryan Devereaux 14 Aug 2014 56
Relying in part on recent Intercept reporting on the vast breadth of the government’s watchlisting system, several Muslim Americans filed a complaint in a Michigan federal court today, arguing that they have been wrongly ensnared in an unaccountable system without any opportunity to defend themselves. Citing “recent media accounts,” including secret government documents published exclusively by The Read more
The Militarization of U.S. Police: Finally Dragged Into the Light by the Horrors of Ferguson Dispatches
The Militarization of U.S. Police: Finally Dragged Into the Light by the Horrors of Ferguson
By Glenn Greenwald 14 Aug 2014 383
The intensive militarization of America’s police forces is a serious menace about which a small number of people have been loudly warning for years, with little attention or traction. In a 2007 paper on “the blurring distinctions between the police and military institutions and between war and law enforcement,” the criminal justice professor Peter Kraska Read more
NPR Is Laundering CIA Talking Points to Make You Scared of NSA Reporting Dispatches
NPR Is Laundering CIA Talking Points to Make You Scared of NSA Reporting
By Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Fishman 12 Aug 2014 497
On August 1, NPR’s Morning Edition broadcast a story by NPR national security reporter Dina Temple-Raston touting explosive claims from what she called “a tech firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.” That firm, Recorded Future, worked together with “a cyber expert, Mario Vuksan, the CEO of ReversingLabs,” to produce a new report that purported to vindicate the repeated Read more
You Can Get Hacked Just By Watching This Cat Video on YouTube
By Morgan Marquis-Boire 15 Aug 2014 16
Many otherwise well-informed people think they have to do something wrong, or stupid, or insecure to get hacked—like clicking on the wrong attachments, or browsing malicious websites. People also think that the NSA and its international partners are the only ones who have turned the internet into a militarized zone. But according to research I am releasing Read more
Five Muslim-Americans Sue Feds Over Watchlisting Voices
Five Muslim-Americans Sue Feds Over Watchlisting
By Ryan Devereaux 14 Aug 2014 56
Relying in part on recent Intercept reporting on the vast breadth of the government’s watchlisting system, several Muslim Americans filed a complaint in a Michigan federal court today, arguing that they have been wrongly ensnared in an unaccountable system without any opportunity to defend themselves. Citing “recent media accounts,” including secret government documents published exclusively by The Read more
The Militarization of U.S. Police: Finally Dragged Into the Light by the Horrors of Ferguson Dispatches
The Militarization of U.S. Police: Finally Dragged Into the Light by the Horrors of Ferguson
By Glenn Greenwald 14 Aug 2014 383
The intensive militarization of America’s police forces is a serious menace about which a small number of people have been loudly warning for years, with little attention or traction. In a 2007 paper on “the blurring distinctions between the police and military institutions and between war and law enforcement,” the criminal justice professor Peter Kraska Read more
NPR Is Laundering CIA Talking Points to Make You Scared of NSA Reporting Dispatches
NPR Is Laundering CIA Talking Points to Make You Scared of NSA Reporting
By Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Fishman 12 Aug 2014 497
On August 1, NPR’s Morning Edition broadcast a story by NPR national security reporter Dina Temple-Raston touting explosive claims from what she called “a tech firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.” That firm, Recorded Future, worked together with “a cyber expert, Mario Vuksan, the CEO of ReversingLabs,” to produce a new report that purported to vindicate the repeated Read more
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Friday, January 04, 2013
FBI agent sentenced to 18 months for killing teen in drunk driving case
Brandywine youth, 18, was struck by speeding FBI agent
In a tear-filled, standing-room only courtroom, a FBI agent convicted of killing a Brandywine teen in a drunk driving collision was sentenced to 18-months in prison.
Adrian Johnson, 37, was charged with vehicular manslaughter and related charges after striking a vehicle driven by Lawrence Garner Jr., 18, as he was leaving a Brandywine community park on North Keys Road in February 2011.
Johnson of Brandywine was found to have been driving 18 miles over the 40 miles per hour speed limit while off-duty and produced a .25 blood alcohol level during a breathalyzer test — more than three times the .08 legal limit.
Garner was pronounced dead at the scene while his passenger and friend, Robert Mitchell, 19, sustained lif
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Friday, January 04, 2013
FBI agent sentenced to 18 months for killing teen in drunk driving case
Brandywine youth, 18, was struck by speeding FBI agent
In a tear-filled, standing-room only courtroom, a FBI agent convicted of killing a Brandywine teen in a drunk driving collision was sentenced to 18-months in prison.
Adrian Johnson, 37, was charged with vehicular manslaughter and related charges after striking a vehicle driven by Lawrence Garner Jr., 18, as he was leaving a Brandywine community park on North Keys Road in February 2011.
Johnson of Brandywine was found to have been driving 18 miles over the 40 miles per hour speed limit while off-duty and produced a .25 blood alcohol level during a breathalyzer test — more than three times the .08 legal limit.
Garner was pronounced dead at the scene while his passenger and friend, Robert Mitchell, 19, sustained lif
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Home Movies: Who’s the Bigger Criminal, Whitey Bulger or the FBI?
August 17, 2014
Joe Berlinger's fascinating true-crime film suggests that the legendary crime boss may not be the most corrupt guy in Boston
In the Irish-American neighborhood of South Boston, parents wanted their children to excel. Kevin Weeks, whose brothers both went to Harvard, matriculated instead into organized crime. Weeks recalls that, as he prepared to commit his first murder, he promised himself, “I’m gonna be the best at it that I can.”
Whitey Bulger’s younger brother Billy was, as one journalist notes, “the most powerful politician in Massachusetts”: he ran the state Senate from 1978 to 1996, then served seven years as the President of the University of Massachusetts. Whitey served in juvenile jail, the Atlanta Penitentiary, Lewisburg and Alcatraz. Back home in the mid-’60s, he took over the Winter Hill Gang and, with Weeks as his enforcer, became the most famous and feared gangster in New England. Before Bulger was arrested with his girlfriend Catherine Greif in Santa Monica on Jun. 22, 2011, having lived on the lam for 15½ years, he ranked No. 2 on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, just behind Osama bin Laden. As America’s top homegrown criminal, the kid from Southie had made it big.
How did Bulger run the Boston mob so long and with such impunity? (As his defense attorney Hank Brennan says, “He was never charged with even a misdemeanor.”) And how did he manage to elude the law when he went into hiding? Joe Berlinger’s engrossing documentary Whitey: The United States of America v. James J. Bulger, argues that he was shielded from prosecution by James J. Sullivan, Bulger’s FBI contact and an old Southie pal — perhaps in exchange for inside information, perhaps not. Either way, the government enabled him. The film’s subtitle could be The United States of America in cahoots with James J. Bulger.
Whichever side you take, Whitey is a must-see. On VOD, where the film is widely available, viewers can savor each betrayal, replay the enormity of Bulger’s (and perhaps the FBI’s) crimes and study the eloquent pain of the victims. Sticking to the facts, this documentary is still a much movie-r movie than, say, Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning The Departed, starring Jack Nicholson as a fictionalized Bulger, or other Boston-based dramas like Mystic River and The Town, with famous actors doing their darnedest to mimic the distinctive Southie accent. (Next year we’ll see an official Bulger bio-pic, Black Mass, with Johnny Depp as Whitey and Benedict Cumberbatch as his brother Billy.) There’s truth, not art, in the handsome, meaty faces and broad vowels of the men and women Berlinger interviewed. The tears these tough people shed come not from the Method but from memories of what the ogre did to them and their loved ones.
(READ: Corliss’s review of The Departed)
For Bulger returned to Boston like a dreaded ghost from the bedroom closet of a child’s nightmares. One difference: this scary figure left lasting scars on the victims and their families. Stephen Rakes recalls Bulger and Weeks visiting him in the ’70s, shortly after he opened the South Boston Liquor Mart; they dropped by to convince him to accept the mob as partners. If he didn’t, Whitey said, “I’ll stab ya and I’ll kill ya.” When Rakes declined the proposal, Bulger looked at the man’s year-old daughter and noted, “It’d be terrible for this kid to grow up without a father.” Rakes says he was never the same, but is now eager to testify against Bulger: “Thirty years ago he scared me to death. He don’t scare me to death no more.”
Rakes’ partner in grief is Steve Davis; he believes Whitey killed his sister Debbie, who had been a girl friend of Bulger hit man Steve Flemmi. (You need a scorecard to sort out all the Steves, Debbies and John J.’s in this movie.) “Steve and I,” says Davis, referring to Rakes, “we have something in common: this psychotic individual. We’re gonna bring justice. It has to be done” — as if they are the villagers who consider it their solemn duty to take communal revenge on the monster. Yet later, after Rakes is taken off the witness list, he is found dead seven miles from where his car was abandoned. He seems to have been the victim of a business dispute that had no connection with the Bulger case.
Weeks (who in Black Mass will be played by Jesse Piemons) has the roguish bravado of an insider who can rationalize crimes against anyone: the feds, or civilians caught in the crossfire, or his old boss. Of FBI agents, he says, “They have a badge that [identifies them as a] Special Agent. But there’s nothin’ special about them. They’re regular people. If you find their weakness, or their needs, or if they have
Home Movies: Who’s the Bigger Criminal, Whitey Bulger or the FBI?
August 17, 2014
Joe Berlinger's fascinating true-crime film suggests that the legendary crime boss may not be the most corrupt guy in Boston
In the Irish-American neighborhood of South Boston, parents wanted their children to excel. Kevin Weeks, whose brothers both went to Harvard, matriculated instead into organized crime. Weeks recalls that, as he prepared to commit his first murder, he promised himself, “I’m gonna be the best at it that I can.”
Whitey Bulger’s younger brother Billy was, as one journalist notes, “the most powerful politician in Massachusetts”: he ran the state Senate from 1978 to 1996, then served seven years as the President of the University of Massachusetts. Whitey served in juvenile jail, the Atlanta Penitentiary, Lewisburg and Alcatraz. Back home in the mid-’60s, he took over the Winter Hill Gang and, with Weeks as his enforcer, became the most famous and feared gangster in New England. Before Bulger was arrested with his girlfriend Catherine Greif in Santa Monica on Jun. 22, 2011, having lived on the lam for 15½ years, he ranked No. 2 on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, just behind Osama bin Laden. As America’s top homegrown criminal, the kid from Southie had made it big.
How did Bulger run the Boston mob so long and with such impunity? (As his defense attorney Hank Brennan says, “He was never charged with even a misdemeanor.”) And how did he manage to elude the law when he went into hiding? Joe Berlinger’s engrossing documentary Whitey: The United States of America v. James J. Bulger, argues that he was shielded from prosecution by James J. Sullivan, Bulger’s FBI contact and an old Southie pal — perhaps in exchange for inside information, perhaps not. Either way, the government enabled him. The film’s subtitle could be The United States of America in cahoots with James J. Bulger.
Whichever side you take, Whitey is a must-see. On VOD, where the film is widely available, viewers can savor each betrayal, replay the enormity of Bulger’s (and perhaps the FBI’s) crimes and study the eloquent pain of the victims. Sticking to the facts, this documentary is still a much movie-r movie than, say, Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning The Departed, starring Jack Nicholson as a fictionalized Bulger, or other Boston-based dramas like Mystic River and The Town, with famous actors doing their darnedest to mimic the distinctive Southie accent. (Next year we’ll see an official Bulger bio-pic, Black Mass, with Johnny Depp as Whitey and Benedict Cumberbatch as his brother Billy.) There’s truth, not art, in the handsome, meaty faces and broad vowels of the men and women Berlinger interviewed. The tears these tough people shed come not from the Method but from memories of what the ogre did to them and their loved ones.
(READ: Corliss’s review of The Departed)
For Bulger returned to Boston like a dreaded ghost from the bedroom closet of a child’s nightmares. One difference: this scary figure left lasting scars on the victims and their families. Stephen Rakes recalls Bulger and Weeks visiting him in the ’70s, shortly after he opened the South Boston Liquor Mart; they dropped by to convince him to accept the mob as partners. If he didn’t, Whitey said, “I’ll stab ya and I’ll kill ya.” When Rakes declined the proposal, Bulger looked at the man’s year-old daughter and noted, “It’d be terrible for this kid to grow up without a father.” Rakes says he was never the same, but is now eager to testify against Bulger: “Thirty years ago he scared me to death. He don’t scare me to death no more.”
Rakes’ partner in grief is Steve Davis; he believes Whitey killed his sister Debbie, who had been a girl friend of Bulger hit man Steve Flemmi. (You need a scorecard to sort out all the Steves, Debbies and John J.’s in this movie.) “Steve and I,” says Davis, referring to Rakes, “we have something in common: this psychotic individual. We’re gonna bring justice. It has to be done” — as if they are the villagers who consider it their solemn duty to take communal revenge on the monster. Yet later, after Rakes is taken off the witness list, he is found dead seven miles from where his car was abandoned. He seems to have been the victim of a business dispute that had no connection with the Bulger case.
Weeks (who in Black Mass will be played by Jesse Piemons) has the roguish bravado of an insider who can rationalize crimes against anyone: the feds, or civilians caught in the crossfire, or his old boss. Of FBI agents, he says, “They have a badge that [identifies them as a] Special Agent. But there’s nothin’ special about them. They’re regular people. If you find their weakness, or their needs, or if they have
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The CIA Double-Dip: Drugs, Fraud, & the JFK Assassination
Posted on August 19, 2014 by Daniel Hopsicker
A six-year long investigation into the drug trafficking operation in St Petersburg Florida that was exposed when two planes were busted in the Yucatan carrying a total of 10 tons of cocaine revealed the planes had all been “parked,” or … Continue reading →
The CIA Double-Dip: Drugs, Fraud, & the JFK Assassination
Posted on August 19, 2014 by Daniel Hopsicker
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Sacha Baron Cohen: The FBI Was Investigating Borat
August 24. 2014
Turns out the FBI isn't verrry niiice, according to comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.
In an NPR interview unearthed by the heroes on Reddit, Baron Cohen says he was followed by federal agents while he was filming Borat, because the agency got so many calls about a suspicious Middle Eastern man. And the Kazakhstani hero wasn't the only one of Baron Cohen's characters that was under surveillance.
"There was a time, you know, I got so used to the police turning up. You know, with Borat, I think they came about 45 times. Sometimes it was the police, then the FBI were following us for a while. They had so many complaints that there was a Middle Eastern man ... driving through America in an ice cream van, that the FBI assigned a team to us. And so we had the FBI and then we had the Secret Service. But there were so many of these instances, and with Bruno as well, that for a while it would take about six months afterwards for me not to totally freak out whenever I saw a policeman."
Sacha Baron Cohen: The FBI Was Investigating Borat
August 24. 2014
Turns out the FBI isn't verrry niiice, according to comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.
In an NPR interview unearthed by the heroes on Reddit, Baron Cohen says he was followed by federal agents while he was filming Borat, because the agency got so many calls about a suspicious Middle Eastern man. And the Kazakhstani hero wasn't the only one of Baron Cohen's characters that was under surveillance.
"There was a time, you know, I got so used to the police turning up. You know, with Borat, I think they came about 45 times. Sometimes it was the police, then the FBI were following us for a while. They had so many complaints that there was a Middle Eastern man ... driving through America in an ice cream van, that the FBI assigned a team to us. And so we had the FBI and then we had the Secret Service. But there were so many of these instances, and with Bruno as well, that for a while it would take about six months afterwards for me not to totally freak out whenever I saw a policeman."
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FBI MISCONDUCT
AND CRIMINAL LARCENY
AT “GROUND ZERO”
February 25, 2004
The National Whistleblower Center
3238 P. Street, NW
Washington, DC 20007
202-342-1902
202-342-1904 (fax)
Web page: http://www.whistleblowers.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
INTRODUCTION
Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the National Whistleblower Center (Center) has been assisting numerous whistleblowers in sensitive security areas1. This report concerns the allegations raised by Jane Turner, a 25 year veteran FBI special agent. Agent Turner alleged that members of the elite FBI “Evidence Response Team” (ERT) stole valuable property from Ground Zero shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. Ms. Turner identified the alleged theft in August 2002. In September 2002 she seized the alleged stolen property, placed it in an evidence bag, and turned it over to the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Inspector General. Because of this action, she was given notice that she would be terminated from the FBI in early October 2002 for “tarnishing the image” of the FBI.
Between September 2002 and December 2003 the Department of Justice had been conducting an investigation into Jane Turner’s allegations of FBI theft at Ground Zero. In December 2003 the Center learned that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) had issued this major report on the theft allegations. However, it refused to publicly release its report or even permit the original whistleblower to review the report in private. The report was instead confidentially transmitted only to the FBI for the FBI’s internal use. This report confirms Ms. Turner’s initial allegations and reviews the scope of FBI criminal activity at Ground Zero. Recently, the Center has learned that the DOJ report also documents numerous other incidents of theft by FBI agents from different crime scenes such as the site of the Okalahoma City bombing and the Unabomber bombing sites.
In late January of 2004, the National Whistleblower Center was able to obtain FBI documents which confirmed many of Ms. Turner’s allegations. These documents confirmed the original allegation filed by the FBI whistleblower. Specifically, the FBI conceded that at least one of its agents stole property from Ground Zero and transported that property across state lines. Moreover, the FBI documentation confirmed that the theft directly interfered with an ongoing criminal prosecution of other non-federal agents who also stole items from Ground Zero.
FBI agent participation in a criminal larceny, and the cover-up of this theft by the FBI and Department of Justice, have significant long range implications for federal law enforcement. It is simply unacceptable that federal agents, while being paid a high salary by taxpayers, could be permitted to steal from any crime scene, let alone from Ground Zero. It is even more shocking when the criminal larceny is engaged in by elite FBI agents assigned to a special “team” specifically trained in the preservation of evidence.
THE FACTS OF THE CASE
Initial investigation into theft at Ground Zero
Jane Turner worked for 25 years as a Special Agent for the FBI.2 While assigned to the Bureau’s Minneapolis Division, Agent Turner was tasked with investigating allegations that an employee for a federal contractor3 had stolen property from Ground Zero. Specifically, Ms. Turner was asked to review an allegation that an employee for Keiger Enterprises, a company contracted by the government to do relief work at the World Trade Center site, had stolen a “fire truck door” which had been mangled in the attack on the World Trade Center.
Theft of the door would constitute a violation of federal criminal law. As a “collectable” if the door was valued at $5000.00 or above, the contractor could have been charged under the Federal Interstate Transportation of Stolen Goods Statute and could have been subject to a 10 year prison sentence. The FBI has explained the case against Keiger as follows:
“One aspect of the Keiger case involved an allegation of interstate theft of stolen property (ITSP) and was based on information that Keiger employees recovered a truck door which had been on a fire engine that was destroyed as a result of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. The fire engine door was removed from the debris of the WTC site and it, along with other items, were transported back to Minnesota.4
In or about February of 2002, Ms. Turner commenced her investigation into the 9/11 theft case. In mid-April Ms. Turner led a team of FBI agents in search of the Keiger property in order to obtain evidence related to thefts which may have occurred at Ground Zero.
In a statement to the press issued when the search warrant was executed, attorneys for Keiger Enterprises defended the company by alleging that the FBI itself had stolen items from Ground Zero.5 At this time Ms. Turner had no information whatsoever that FBI agents may have also engaged in criminal theft at Ground Zero. Ms. Turner did not give the Keiger attorneys statements any credence, and did not conceive it possible that FBI agents would have been involved in theft from Ground Zero. Ms. Turner’s supervisor explained his understanding of the Keiger-attorney statements:
“. . . in mid-April 2002 when the search warrant was executed against the Keiger business location, Joseph Frieburg, Keiger’s defense counsel, was interviewed by the local television station regarding the search. The news piece quoted him as saying that he didn’t understand why his client was being investigated by the government for taking things from the WTC site when FBI agents had done the same thing.”6
After the search warrant was executed, the Keiger case became one of the most important cases within the Minneapolis Division of the FBI. By late August of 2002, the FBI had confirmed that the fire door had in fact been stolen and confirmed that as a “collectable” it had sufficient value to be covered under federal criminal law.7 In late August the government was very close to issuing an indictment against Keiger regarding theft from Ground Zero, including an indictment related to the theft of the fire door.8
FBI THEFT
Initial Identification of Globe
In late August of 2002, Agent Turner was casually walking through the FBI Minneapolis Division office when she noticed a crystal etched globe sitting on a secretary’s desk The globe had several distinguishing marks. Its surface was discolored and scratched.9 Agent Turner asked the secretary about the globe. The secretary proudly told Agent Turner that it was from the World Trade Center and that an “ERT” agent had given it to her.10 The ERT is an elite squad of FBI agents specially trained in securing crime scenes.
AND CRIMINAL LARCENY
AT “GROUND ZERO”
February 25, 2004
The National Whistleblower Center
3238 P. Street, NW
Washington, DC 20007
202-342-1902
202-342-1904 (fax)
Web page: http://www.whistleblowers.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
INTRODUCTION
Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the National Whistleblower Center (Center) has been assisting numerous whistleblowers in sensitive security areas1. This report concerns the allegations raised by Jane Turner, a 25 year veteran FBI special agent. Agent Turner alleged that members of the elite FBI “Evidence Response Team” (ERT) stole valuable property from Ground Zero shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. Ms. Turner identified the alleged theft in August 2002. In September 2002 she seized the alleged stolen property, placed it in an evidence bag, and turned it over to the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Inspector General. Because of this action, she was given notice that she would be terminated from the FBI in early October 2002 for “tarnishing the image” of the FBI.
Between September 2002 and December 2003 the Department of Justice had been conducting an investigation into Jane Turner’s allegations of FBI theft at Ground Zero. In December 2003 the Center learned that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) had issued this major report on the theft allegations. However, it refused to publicly release its report or even permit the original whistleblower to review the report in private. The report was instead confidentially transmitted only to the FBI for the FBI’s internal use. This report confirms Ms. Turner’s initial allegations and reviews the scope of FBI criminal activity at Ground Zero. Recently, the Center has learned that the DOJ report also documents numerous other incidents of theft by FBI agents from different crime scenes such as the site of the Okalahoma City bombing and the Unabomber bombing sites.
In late January of 2004, the National Whistleblower Center was able to obtain FBI documents which confirmed many of Ms. Turner’s allegations. These documents confirmed the original allegation filed by the FBI whistleblower. Specifically, the FBI conceded that at least one of its agents stole property from Ground Zero and transported that property across state lines. Moreover, the FBI documentation confirmed that the theft directly interfered with an ongoing criminal prosecution of other non-federal agents who also stole items from Ground Zero.
FBI agent participation in a criminal larceny, and the cover-up of this theft by the FBI and Department of Justice, have significant long range implications for federal law enforcement. It is simply unacceptable that federal agents, while being paid a high salary by taxpayers, could be permitted to steal from any crime scene, let alone from Ground Zero. It is even more shocking when the criminal larceny is engaged in by elite FBI agents assigned to a special “team” specifically trained in the preservation of evidence.
THE FACTS OF THE CASE
Initial investigation into theft at Ground Zero
Jane Turner worked for 25 years as a Special Agent for the FBI.2 While assigned to the Bureau’s Minneapolis Division, Agent Turner was tasked with investigating allegations that an employee for a federal contractor3 had stolen property from Ground Zero. Specifically, Ms. Turner was asked to review an allegation that an employee for Keiger Enterprises, a company contracted by the government to do relief work at the World Trade Center site, had stolen a “fire truck door” which had been mangled in the attack on the World Trade Center.
Theft of the door would constitute a violation of federal criminal law. As a “collectable” if the door was valued at $5000.00 or above, the contractor could have been charged under the Federal Interstate Transportation of Stolen Goods Statute and could have been subject to a 10 year prison sentence. The FBI has explained the case against Keiger as follows:
“One aspect of the Keiger case involved an allegation of interstate theft of stolen property (ITSP) and was based on information that Keiger employees recovered a truck door which had been on a fire engine that was destroyed as a result of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. The fire engine door was removed from the debris of the WTC site and it, along with other items, were transported back to Minnesota.4
In or about February of 2002, Ms. Turner commenced her investigation into the 9/11 theft case. In mid-April Ms. Turner led a team of FBI agents in search of the Keiger property in order to obtain evidence related to thefts which may have occurred at Ground Zero.
In a statement to the press issued when the search warrant was executed, attorneys for Keiger Enterprises defended the company by alleging that the FBI itself had stolen items from Ground Zero.5 At this time Ms. Turner had no information whatsoever that FBI agents may have also engaged in criminal theft at Ground Zero. Ms. Turner did not give the Keiger attorneys statements any credence, and did not conceive it possible that FBI agents would have been involved in theft from Ground Zero. Ms. Turner’s supervisor explained his understanding of the Keiger-attorney statements:
“. . . in mid-April 2002 when the search warrant was executed against the Keiger business location, Joseph Frieburg, Keiger’s defense counsel, was interviewed by the local television station regarding the search. The news piece quoted him as saying that he didn’t understand why his client was being investigated by the government for taking things from the WTC site when FBI agents had done the same thing.”6
After the search warrant was executed, the Keiger case became one of the most important cases within the Minneapolis Division of the FBI. By late August of 2002, the FBI had confirmed that the fire door had in fact been stolen and confirmed that as a “collectable” it had sufficient value to be covered under federal criminal law.7 In late August the government was very close to issuing an indictment against Keiger regarding theft from Ground Zero, including an indictment related to the theft of the fire door.8
FBI THEFT
Initial Identification of Globe
In late August of 2002, Agent Turner was casually walking through the FBI Minneapolis Division office when she noticed a crystal etched globe sitting on a secretary’s desk The globe had several distinguishing marks. Its surface was discolored and scratched.9 Agent Turner asked the secretary about the globe. The secretary proudly told Agent Turner that it was from the World Trade Center and that an “ERT” agent had given it to her.10 The ERT is an elite squad of FBI agents specially trained in securing crime scenes.
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Grimm is already another FBI Congressional tentacle on top of all the Congressional aides who are FBI informants.
Yes Congressman Rogers is also a former FBI agent
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GOP congressman Michael Grimm to face tax-evasion trial on December
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge on Tuesday set December 1 as the start of the tax-evasion trial of New York Congressman Michael Grimm, one month after elections in which the Republican seeks a third term in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Grimm, a former FBI agent who represents parts of the city’s boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island, appeared before Judge Pamela Chen in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn. He did not speak during or after the hearing.
He was indicted in April on charges of fraud, perjury and conspiracy tied to his New York restaurant, Healthalicious.
Prosecutors had originally sought to start the trial in October, weeks ahead of the Nov. 4 elections.
Separate from the criminal proceedings, Grimm made headlines when he was caught on camera in January threatening to throw a reporter off a balcony in the U.S. Capitol, saying: “I’ll break you in half. Like a boy.”
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Brother of Murder Victim Seeks Details of FBI's u2018Sensitive Informant Program'
By Bob McCarty
February 1, 2013
Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue filed a motion Monday asking a federal judge to determine whether he is entitled to limited discovery into the FBI’s u201CSensitive Informant Program.u201D
Trentadue Motion for Discovery 1-28-13 Click to download copy of motion (pdf).
In his motion, Trentadue described the program as one used by the bureau “to recruit and/or place informants on the staffs of members of the United States Congress and perhaps even federal judges, in the national media, within other federal agencies as well as the White House, on defense teams in high-profile federal and/or state criminal prosecutions, inside state and local law enforcement agencies, and even among the clergy of organized religions.”
Trentadue’s interest in the program stems from questions that have surfaced during his ongoing investigation into the death of Kenneth Trentadue, his brother who died in 1995 under suspicious circumstances while in custody at the U.S. Bureau of Prisons Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City, months after the Oklahoma City Bombing.
Yes Congressman Rogers is also a former FBI agent
who sits on the Congressional Committee that gives money to the FBI
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GOP congressman Michael Grimm to face tax-evasion trial on December
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge on Tuesday set December 1 as the start of the tax-evasion trial of New York Congressman Michael Grimm, one month after elections in which the Republican seeks a third term in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Grimm, a former FBI agent who represents parts of the city’s boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island, appeared before Judge Pamela Chen in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn. He did not speak during or after the hearing.
He was indicted in April on charges of fraud, perjury and conspiracy tied to his New York restaurant, Healthalicious.
Prosecutors had originally sought to start the trial in October, weeks ahead of the Nov. 4 elections.
Separate from the criminal proceedings, Grimm made headlines when he was caught on camera in January threatening to throw a reporter off a balcony in the U.S. Capitol, saying: “I’ll break you in half. Like a boy.”
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Brother of Murder Victim Seeks Details of FBI's u2018Sensitive Informant Program'
By Bob McCarty
February 1, 2013
Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue filed a motion Monday asking a federal judge to determine whether he is entitled to limited discovery into the FBI’s u201CSensitive Informant Program.u201D
Trentadue Motion for Discovery 1-28-13 Click to download copy of motion (pdf).
In his motion, Trentadue described the program as one used by the bureau “to recruit and/or place informants on the staffs of members of the United States Congress and perhaps even federal judges, in the national media, within other federal agencies as well as the White House, on defense teams in high-profile federal and/or state criminal prosecutions, inside state and local law enforcement agencies, and even among the clergy of organized religions.”
Trentadue’s interest in the program stems from questions that have surfaced during his ongoing investigation into the death of Kenneth Trentadue, his brother who died in 1995 under suspicious circumstances while in custody at the U.S. Bureau of Prisons Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City, months after the Oklahoma City Bombing.
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FBI agent and wife admit cheating the IRS out of at least $200,000
on September 04, 2014 at 5:14
WATCHUNG — A former FBI special agent and his wife admitted hiding her income as part-owner of a Piscataway pharmacy from the Internal Revenue Service.
Pritesh Desai, 47, and his wife Darshna Desai, 45, both of Watchung, surrendered to federal authorities Thursday and pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to defraud the IRS before U.S. District Judge Michael A. Shipp in Trenton federal court, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman for the District of New Jersey.
The fraud took place while Pritesh Desai was employed as a special agent in the FBI's New York Field Office until he resigned in July of 2013, the statement said. At the time, Darshna Desai was part-owner of DVS Pharma Inc. in Piscataway, known as the Heights Pharmacy, it said.
From June 2004 to June 2012, the couple conspired with each other and with Darshna Desai's partner to conceal cash income from the pharmacy, the statement said.
She admitted that she or her business partner would separate cash earned by the pharmacy from other received income and pay part to Darshna Desai as a cash salary, then split the remainder, the statement said.
Pritesh and Darshna Desai admitted depositing the cash into various financial institutions and multiple accounts, using cash to pay personal living expenses, including renovating their home, the statement said
The pair also gave cash to others in return for checks which they deposited into their personal bank accounts, the statement said.
Pritesh Desai also admitted giving the FBI false financial information from 2007 through 2011, claiming cash held by his family was comprised of gifts from his family, the statement said.
From 2004 through 2011, Darshna Desai and her partner filed false corporate income tax returns for the pharmacy, and then she and her husband filed joint personal income tax returns for the same years failing to disclose the cash, the statement said.
The total tax loss from the fraud was estimated at between $200,000 and $400,000, the statement said.
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FBI agent and wife admit cheating the IRS out of at least $200,000
on September 04, 2014 at 5:14
WATCHUNG — A former FBI special agent and his wife admitted hiding her income as part-owner of a Piscataway pharmacy from the Internal Revenue Service.
Pritesh Desai, 47, and his wife Darshna Desai, 45, both of Watchung, surrendered to federal authorities Thursday and pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to defraud the IRS before U.S. District Judge Michael A. Shipp in Trenton federal court, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman for the District of New Jersey.
The fraud took place while Pritesh Desai was employed as a special agent in the FBI's New York Field Office until he resigned in July of 2013, the statement said. At the time, Darshna Desai was part-owner of DVS Pharma Inc. in Piscataway, known as the Heights Pharmacy, it said.
From June 2004 to June 2012, the couple conspired with each other and with Darshna Desai's partner to conceal cash income from the pharmacy, the statement said.
She admitted that she or her business partner would separate cash earned by the pharmacy from other received income and pay part to Darshna Desai as a cash salary, then split the remainder, the statement said.
Pritesh and Darshna Desai admitted depositing the cash into various financial institutions and multiple accounts, using cash to pay personal living expenses, including renovating their home, the statement said
The pair also gave cash to others in return for checks which they deposited into their personal bank accounts, the statement said.
Pritesh Desai also admitted giving the FBI false financial information from 2007 through 2011, claiming cash held by his family was comprised of gifts from his family, the statement said.
From 2004 through 2011, Darshna Desai and her partner filed false corporate income tax returns for the pharmacy, and then she and her husband filed joint personal income tax returns for the same years failing to disclose the cash, the statement said.
The total tax loss from the fraud was estimated at between $200,000 and $400,000, the statement said.
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Keith Dietterle, FBI analyst, accused of distributing child pornography
By Jennifer Donelan
December 3, 2012 - 05:37 pm
An FBI analyst has been accused of distributing child pornography in a disturbing case that's left his neighbors wanting answers.
A task force made up of FBI agents and D.C. police officers busted Keith Dietterle. The 28-year-old will appear for a preliminary hearing Tuesday.
Dietterle is accused of sending child pornography to another man he met in a chat room frequented by individuals who have a sexual interest children. But the person Dietterle was allegedly speaking with was a D.C. police detective.
According to court documents, agents say Dietterle thought he was communicating with a man who claimed to be sexually abusing a 3-year-old nephew and 12-year-old daughter. The detective wrote he and Dietterle discussed a possible meeting with the "children" for sex. Over a two week period, Dietterle sent three images via Yahoo instant messenger depicting child pornography, court documents state.
Dietterle is accused of later sending multiple links, including a 13-minute video, images and six separate videos of underage children all being sexually abused.
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Keith Dietterle, FBI analyst, accused of distributing child pornography
By Jennifer Donelan
December 3, 2012 - 05:37 pm
An FBI analyst has been accused of distributing child pornography in a disturbing case that's left his neighbors wanting answers.
A task force made up of FBI agents and D.C. police officers busted Keith Dietterle. The 28-year-old will appear for a preliminary hearing Tuesday.
Dietterle is accused of sending child pornography to another man he met in a chat room frequented by individuals who have a sexual interest children. But the person Dietterle was allegedly speaking with was a D.C. police detective.
According to court documents, agents say Dietterle thought he was communicating with a man who claimed to be sexually abusing a 3-year-old nephew and 12-year-old daughter. The detective wrote he and Dietterle discussed a possible meeting with the "children" for sex. Over a two week period, Dietterle sent three images via Yahoo instant messenger depicting child pornography, court documents state.
Dietterle is accused of later sending multiple links, including a 13-minute video, images and six separate videos of underage children all being sexually abused.
