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At a hearing in Brooklyn federal court on Monday, Rep. Michael Grimm of Staten Island waived his right to conflict-free counsel, after being advised by Judge Pamela Chen that two members of his legal team could pose a potential conflict of interest.

The two attorneys previously worked with Grimm at the F.B.I. and they also represented a former associate of Grimm in a separate proceeding.

Grimm, who is facing a 20-count indictment on charges that include tax fraud and perjury, hired Stuart Kaplan as an attorney in November. Kaplan also represented Diana Durand, who has been described as an ex-girlfriend of Grimm’s, when she pleaded guilty in September to a straw-donor scheme that included donations to Grimm's campaign. At the time, Kaplan said there was no "complicity" between Durand and Grimm, and "never any discussion" about her testifying in Grimm's case.


Additionally, Chen noted that one of the two former F.B.I. agents-turned-defense lawyers had been involved in an F.B.I. incident in 1999 in which he “may have assisted [Grimm] in a matter that arose,” according to Chen.

“In trial there is always a possibility—it may well be remote—that you might be asked questions about your history with the F.B.I. or about any particular incident that may have arisen during your tenure there, and that to the extent one of your lawyers may have had any personal involvement or knowledge about that, that could compromise their representation of you in this matter, if for some reason that lawyer did not want the information to come to light,” Chen warned Grimm.

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one of the first books a smart criminal justice consumer
reads are Protectors of Privilege by Donner
and Above the Law by David Burnham.

Both books detail how the DOJ Dept of Justice Crime
Family protects Wall Street.

couple of reads



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ABOVE THE LAW
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In Above the Law, David Burnham once again shows us why his ... the FBI, the DEA, the INS and more than 100,000 employees -- functions as law enforcer, ...
Above the Law: Secret Deals, Political Fixes, and ... - Google Books
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The United States Justice Department - which includes the FBI, the DEA, the INS and ... In Above the Law, David Burnham reveals the chilling truth about this ...

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Protectors of Privilege - Frank Donner - Paperback - University of ...
http://www.ucpress.edu" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; › Subjects › Sociology › Urban Studies
This landmark exposé of the dark history of repressive police operations in American cities offers a richly detailed account of police misconduct and violations of ...
Big Brother in Blue : PROTECTORS OF PRIVILEGE: Red Squads ...
articles.latimes.com/1991-01-20/books/bk-1017_1_red-squad
Jan 20, 1991 - Big Brother in Blue : PROTECTORS OF PRIVILEGE: Red Squads and Police Repression in Urban America, By Frank Don

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Two Insider Trading Convictions Are Overturned in Blow to Prosecutors

A federal appeals court tossed out the insider case against two former hedge fund traders
DECEMBER 10, 2014
A federal appeals court on Wednesday overturned two of the government’s signature insider trading convictions, a stunning blow to prosecutors and their campaign to root out illegal activity on Wall Street.

In a 28-page decision that could rewrite the course of insider trading law, sharply curtailing its boundaries, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan tossed out the case against two former hedge fund traders, Todd Newman and Anthony Chiasson. Citing the trial judge’s “erroneous” instruction to jurors, the court not only overturned the convictions but threw out the cases altogether.

“We conclude that the jury instr

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msfreeh wrote:one of the first books a smart criminal justice consumer
reads are Protectors of Privilege by Donner
and Above the Law by David Burnham.

Both books detail how the DOJ Dept of Justice Crime
Family protects Wall Street.

couple of reads



1.

ABOVE THE LAW
https://epic.org/epic/board/burnham/book.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
In Above the Law, David Burnham once again shows us why his ... the FBI, the DEA, the INS and more than 100,000 employees -- functions as law enforcer, ...
Above the Law: Secret Deals, Political Fixes, and ... - Google Books
books.google.com › Social Science › General
The United States Justice Department - which includes the FBI, the DEA, the INS and ... In Above the Law, David Burnham reveals the chilling truth about this ...

2.

Protectors of Privilege - Frank Donner - Paperback - University of ...
http://www.ucpress.edu" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; › Subjects › Sociology › Urban Studies
This landmark exposé of the dark history of repressive police operations in American cities offers a richly detailed account of police misconduct and violations of ...
Big Brother in Blue : PROTECTORS OF PRIVILEGE: Red Squads ...
articles.latimes.com/1991-01-20/books/bk-1017_1_red-squad
Jan 20, 1991 - Big Brother in Blue : PROTECTORS OF PRIVILEGE: Red Squads and Police Repression in Urban America, By Frank Don

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Two Insider Trading Convictions Are Overturned in Blow to Prosecutors

A federal appeals court tossed out the insider case against two former hedge fund traders
DECEMBER 10, 2014
A federal appeals court on Wednesday overturned two of the government’s signature insider trading convictions, a stunning blow to prosecutors and their campaign to root out illegal activity on Wall Street.

In a 28-page decision that could rewrite the course of insider trading law, sharply curtailing its boundaries, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan tossed out the case against two former hedge fund traders, Todd Newman and Anthony Chiasson. Citing the trial judge’s “erroneous” instruction to jurors, the court not only overturned the convictions but threw out the cases altogether.

“We conclude that the jury instr

Obama Justice Department Was Involved In IRS Targeting, Lerner Emails Reveal


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When something smells rotten, sometimes it is. Sometimes more than a smidgen. Sadly, the 18 month investigation into IRS targeting of conservative groups isn’t over, and may be worse than anyone thought. A federal judge has broken loose more emails that the DOJ had buried, and the picture it reveals isn’t pretty.

The documents prove Lois Lerner met with DOJ’s Election Crimes Division a month before the 2010 elections. It has to be embarrassing to the DOJ, which may not be the most impartial one to be investigating the IRS. In fact, the DOJ withheld over 800 pages of Lerner documents citing “taxpayer privacy” and “deliberative privilege.”

Yet these internal DOJ documents show Ms. Lerner was talking to DOJ officials about prosecuting tax-exempt entities (yes, criminally!) two years before the IRS conceded there was inappropriate targeting. Ms. Lerner met with top officials from the DOJ’s Election Crimes Branch in October of 2010. Although Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the DOJ (Judicial Watch v. Department of Justice, No. 14-cv-01239),the DOJ coughed up dirt only on court orde

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FBI's George Venizelos to Lead Security Operations for the New York Racing Association


Published: December 11 2014
The New York Racing Association, Inc. today announced the hiring of George C. Venizelos as Vice President of Security, effective January 26, 2015.
FBI's George Venizelos to Lead Security Operations for the New York Racing Association
Ozone Park, NY - December 11, 2014 - The New York Racing Association, Inc. today announced the hiring of George C. Venizelos as Vice President of Security, effective January 26, 2015.

Venizelos, 54, currently serves as the Assistant Director in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) New York Division, the largest of the Bureau's 56 field offices. With more than 27 years in law enforcement, Venizelos oversees all FBI operations and personnel within the five boroughs of New York City and eight counties in New York State, as well as those assigned to La Guardia Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport.

In his new role, Venizelos will be responsible for commanding, directing, and coordinating the New York Racing Association's uniformed and investigative security force in all activities related to the protection, conservation, and security

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NCS4 to host spectator sports safety summit
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... New York Marathon chief production officer and technical director; Chris Thorpe, FBI supervisory special agent; and Jim Estes, USA Track and Field director of ...

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Weidenmiller was recruited by the FBI during her junior year and spent several years training local police force delegates in the Middle East.
When every little girl wanted to be a ballerina, I wanted to be a secret agent. I loved the idea of… being a hero. We were starting to lose US citizens because of terrorism, and foreign countries didn’t have the right legal systems to try cases in US law. I worked with 26 local delegates of the police force and trained them on jargon and investigations.

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MLEA has three graduation ceremonies per year in March, June and December, Anastasia Burton, deputy communications director for the DOJ, wrote in an email. The academy has graduated 149 officers this year, and this week’s class was one of the largest in her recent memory.

“We’re very grateful for Kevin’s significant contributions and leadership over the last 10 years. … We wish him the best in his new position,” wrote Burton, who added that retired FBI agent and Program Manager of Liability and Risk Management Paul Szczepaniak of MLEA will be Interim Bureau Chief until a permanent administrator is hired. The DOJ said it hopes to have someone in place by February 2015.



also we have....

Robert John Tuberson, 85, went home to be with his Lord and Savior on Dec. 13, 2014. He was born in Saint Mary’s, Pa., raised in that city and in Ridgway, Pa. Bob served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1951 to 1953, attaining the rank of sergeant. Bob was retired from the FBI as a special agent with 28 years of service, in Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Los Angeles, Chicago and Norfolk. After retirement from the FBI he served another 12 years as a special agent with the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Virginia State Police, working in southeastern Virginia.
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Steven Cohen Seeks Law Experts for Fund


Steven Cohen, owner of the family office Point72 Asset Management



DECEMBER 15, 2014
Steven A. Cohen beat them, and now he wants them to join him.

The billionaire investor, who managed to fend off a criminal insider trading investigation of himself, if not of his former hedge fund, is looking for a former prosecutor and several agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to join his new $10 billion investment firm, Point72 Asset Management, said several people briefed on the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The prospective law enforcement hirings appear to be another chapter in Mr. Cohen’s continuing effort to prove to federal authorities that his new firm will not tolerate the kind of aggressive behavior that led to eight people who once worked for his former hedge fund, SAC Capital Advisors, to either plead guilty or be convicted of insider trading. SAC itself also pleaded guilty to securities fraud, paid $1.8 billion in fines to the federal government and agreed to stop managing m


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Above the Law

Secret Deals, Political Fixes and Other Misadventures of the U.S. Department of Justice


"This book tells us that far too often the Justice Department represents not the people, but the politicians, corporations and other entrenched private interests. In Above the Law, David Burnham once again shows us why his investigative reporting is a national asset."
-- Seymour M. Hersh, Pulitzer Price winning investigative journalist
Myth: The Justice Department is a rational and evenhanded law enforcement mechanism.

Fact: The Justice Department is always political, steadily more powerful, sometimes corrupt and surprisingly ineffective.

The United States Justice Department -- which includes the FBI, the DEA, the INS and more than 100,000 employees -- functions as law enforcer, investigator and jailer of American citizens. The department's legal reach is vast, extending to social controversies of race, religion and economics as well as to thousands of criminal and civil laws, including espionage; mail fraud; corruption; racketeering; vote-fixing; pollution; computer crimes; adulterated food and drugs; price-fixing; tax fraud; gambling; forgery; and the sale, manufacture or possession of illicit drugs. The department then, and the attorney general, make decisions daily that affect every American citizen. But who monitors the Justice Department and its pervasive dealings?


In Above the Law, David Burnham reveals the chilling truth about this powerful arm of the government. Examining its records on such issues as drug enforcement, civil rights and national security, Burnham discovered that the agency runs virtually unpoliced, even after the BCCI scandal, the forcible abduction of Manuel Noriega and the disastrous mission at Waco. For the first time, David Burnham conducts a thorough investigation of the investigator, exposing the Justice Department as never before.


Read Above the Law and learn:


* How the FBI and the DEA have relentlessly expanded their electronic surveillance networks to encompass more and more average Americans -- rather than suspected criminals.


* How the war on drugs currently consumes more than half of the Justice Department's budget but remains a well-documented dud when it comes to reducing the use of illegal drugs.


* How and why FBI director Freeh, following a trail blazed by J. Edgar Hoover, directs a misleading national advertising blitz about the nation's crime problem.

* How the Justice Department has routinely failed to investigate the political allies of all presidents, including Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy and George Bush.

* How -- more than three hundred times a year -- teams of agents from the FBI's top secret Surreptitious entry Program go about the task of breaking into houses, offices and warehouses of selected targets, usually to plant hidden cameras and microphones.

* How the law enforcement powers of the Justice Department have been used to harass black politicians and aid white ones.



Selected Excerpts

Annotated Table of Contents

Chapter 5.KEEPING TRACK OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: THE UNBLINKING EYE AND GIANT EAR

Chapter 6.THE BIG, BAD, DUMB WAR ON DRUGS

Chapter 8.UNCIVIL WRONGS AND CIVIL RIGHTS

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Grimm expected to plead guilty


Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y., is expected to appear in a Brooklyn federal court Tuesday to plead guilty in a tax fraud case that shadowed his successful re-election bid earlier this year, said a person with knowledge of the case but who declined to comment publicly.

A hearing is scheduled for 1 p.m., before U.S. District Judge Pamela Chen.
The congressman, named in a 20-count April indictment, was charged with failing to report more than $1 million in restaurant sales and wages as a former owner of a Manhattan fast-food business. He is expected to plead guilty to one count of assisting in the preparation of a false tax return.
A former FBI agent

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Richland Area Chamber of Commerce accepting nominations
December 26. 2014

The Richlands Area Chamber of Commerce is now accepting nominations for the “2014 Distinguished Citizenship of the Year Award”. The award will be presented at the Chamber’s Annual Membership Meeting and Banquet, February 19, 2015 at Southwest Virginia Community College. This year’s guest speaker is Dr. Abigail Stonerock former FBI agent and the new Director of Faculty Development for the Virginia Community College System.

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" FBI Octupus" post
because it details the FBI Octupus.

This news story is a case study of how taxpayer funded FBI agents reward people for covering up crimes FBI agents commit.

Facts of the case

In 1986 Winthrop Maine FBI agent John Kenoyer rapes 12 year old
babysitter Lucy Robinson. The crime is called pedophilia
in Maine but did Kennebec County DA David Crook filed lesser charges?

The victim Lucy Robinson was never allowed to testify on the stand.
The Robinson family brought a lawsuit against John Kenoyer for $850,000.00 in Civil Court.

The defendant FBI agent John Kenoyer jumped bail and became
a fugitive for one year but not before giving his son power of
attorney to liquidate his assets which were considerable.

Superior Court Judge Donald Alexander was the judge for both the
criminal and civil trial.
While very special FBI agent Kenoyer is a fugitive Judge Alexander
writes and publishes a paper loosely titled "Alternative Sentencing for Sex Offenders"

Shortly thereafter fugitive very special pedophile agent John Kenoyer
turns himself in, is sentenced to 9 months in the county jail
Judge Alexander then awards Lucy Robinson 's parents $45,000.00
to use for psychological treatment needs of victim.
Family attorney awarded much larger sum for attorney fees.

Judge Donald Alexander then promoted to judge on
the Maine Supreme Court by Maine Governor Angus King.
Testimony presented at Donald Alexander confirmation
hearings of material stated above.

Governor Angus King promoted to US Senator

For more about FBI agents caught committing voter fraud google
leonard gates bob draise FBI voter fraud

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FBI Agent Jailed for Assaulting Girl, 12
September 13, 1987

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AUGUSTA, Me. — A judge sentenced a former FBI agent to nine months in prison and two more years of house arrest for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old neighbor girl.

Kennebec County Superior Court Judge Donald G. Alexander imposed the sentence Thursday on John H. Kenoyer, 65, the FBI's former Augusta bureau chief.

Kenoyer was charged early last year. He pleaded guilty in June to nine charges, including unlawful sexual contact, assault and gross sexual misconduct._

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There was a visceral reaction (after the Childress shooting),” said Leslie Wiser, a former assistant Columbia police chief and FBI agent who chairs USC’s Carolina Community Coalition. “This ‘Time for Change’ study is an effort to bring all of those ideas together and come up with comprehensive recommendations. ... If we take care of violent crime, other problems will be taken care of.”

As part of the study, a team of USC graduate students, led by Wiser and USC substance abuse prevention director Rhonda Dinovo, is gathering information on zoning, business licenses, transportation, ambulance and crime statistics. Researchers also are examining some numbers behind drinking — including how alcohol pricing and the concentration of bars affects drinking.

The final report will include a cost analysis for businesses, students, the university and community on the alcohol-related incidents.

“It’s not just about how much money is being spent by the customer, but how much is being spent because of negative consequences for sales, student retention and law enforcement,” Dinovo said. “We want to move away from anecdotal suggestions. We need data.”

The report — which will be shared with university, government and business leaders – should be ready when students return to classes next fall.

Five Points bar owners, who had not heard about the research before being contacted by a reporter for The State newspaper, said they welcomed potential new solutions. But they questioned the timing of the research when violence has dropped in the popular entertainment district.

“I have been there more than 20 years, and the past two years have been safe as it has ever been,” said Brian Glynn, owner of the Village Idiot.

‘Impacts whole community’

USC freshman Childress was waiting for a cab in Five Points in October 2013 when she was struck by a stray .40-caliber bullet. Police say the shot was fired during an argument that was unrelated to Childress.

The Greenville native was paralyzed in the shooting, which capped a spate of violence in the district.

Dinovo said concerns about Five Points nightlife had existed “for sometime before Martha.” But the shooting “was a wake-up call that we need to do something different.”

Suggestions and fixes followed.

USC re-started a shuttle for students. Lights and security cameras were added around the district. The pickup area was set aside for cabs and buses.

USC president Harris Pastides also recommended transforming Five Points into a pedestrian-only area on weekend nights, a move rejected by merchants.

“My mission is to provide a better experience and take better care of our students,” Pastides said last month. “So that is what I hope is the main outcome (of the study).”

That kind of talk has created suspicion among some Five Points merchants about the research, a joint venture between USC’s criminal justice department and its office of substance-abuse prevention.

“I don’t see USC doing anything that would not be advantageous to what the school wants,” said Joe Wilson, the owner of two Five Points bars, not to be confused with the Lexington County congressman.

USC study leaders say they are not pushing for specific solutions.

“We want these businesses to thrive, and we want our students to be safe in it,” Dinovo said. “This can be a win-win situation.”

But USC will make its own decisions, based on suggestions from the “Time for Change” report, school spokesman Wes Hickman said.

In addition to the Childress shooting, study leaders said they were spurred by the findings of annual surveys of USC students and their drinking.

The percentage of freshmen who said they most frequently drank at bars more than doubled to 29 percent in 2013 from 14 percent in 2012.

As a result of the spike in underage drinking in bars among USC students, the study also will examine the use of fake identifications.

“This remains a challenge,” Dinovo said. “We want to see if social media plays a role.”

The role of social media in promoting drink specials at bars also will be examined. “We’ll take a look at ... advertising and certain nights of week to see if crime or ambulance calls go up,” Dinovo said.

The study will examine how other college towns handle security in entertainment areas that are popular with students.

USC plans to share the report findings with Benedict College and Allen University, other colleges near Five Points.

“This impacts the whole community,” Dinovo said.

‘We’re invested’

Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook, who started this spring, embraces the study. Officers attended the study group’s first meetings, discussing the work with USC officials.

Already, the city has added more lights and trimmed trees to increase the coverage area of Five Points security cameras. Police also worked with merchants in designating the area for taxis and buses – even though it meant giving up some of the district’s scarce parking spaces.

“By no means are we sending up a flag saying ‘Mission Accomplished,’ ” Holbrook said. “It would be sticking your head in the sand if you’re ignoring a study on what you can do better.”

Bar owners praised Holbrook’s willingness to work with merchants. Holbrook came to Columbia from another college town — Huntington, W.Va., home of Marshall University.

Jon Sears, who owns four bars in Five Points and is vice president of the Five Points Association, said he notices more officers on sidewalks and intersections, rather than in bars looking for underage drinkers.

“The criminals see more police patrolling Harden (Street),” Sears said, “and don’t do anything.”

Another big change came in May with the closing a bar whose patrons led to many problems in Five Points, according to authorities.

Merchants credited Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott’s successful efforts to close The Library, a bar on the north side of the district, for a drop in violent crime. Lott said the club was frequented by street gang members.

“Closing it did not solve everything, but it sure has solved a lot,” Lott said. “This is a completely different place then when (Childress) got shot.”

Sears said The Library’s demise improved the atmosphere in the district.

“It was a bad scene,” he said. “It’s been trending in the right direction.”

Holbrook has continued to send the message that Lott sent with The Library. Police forced a bar in the Vista, Lucky 13, to close last month after repeated criminal activity.

“We set a tone,” he said. “If you don’t run a place right, we will shut you down.”

While they are pleased with the work of police and other efforts that merchants have made to increase safety, Five Points bar owners said they also want to be involved in USC’s research.

“Seems like a foolish study without it,” said Glynn, the Village Idiot owner.

Dinovo and Wiser say business owners will be included in the new study.

Still, Glynn questioned the motivation of the study, launched more than a year after the Childress shooting.

“Things have changed,” Glynn said. “We have a new police chief who understands the dynamics of the area.

“It seems like we have gotten away from problems from the past couple of years. Why would you keep putting a negative story in everyone’s face?”



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FBI agent in hot water over affair
Link to brothel manager leads to indictment


April 28, 2006
A former FBI agent who was the scourge of corrupt sheriffs and drug kingpins across East Tennessee for more than a decade was indicted Wednesday for allegedly having an affair with a Korean brothel manager in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and concealing the relationship from his superiors.

Clyde William Merryman, 60, was issued a summons to appear in court May 5 after a federal grand jury in Florence, S.C., returned a seven-count indictment charging him with obstruction of justice, mail fraud, concealing a material fact, and falsifying records, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Charlotte, N.C., which is prosecuting the case.





Merryman, a 32-year FBI veteran who retired from the agency in 2003 to become public safety director in Surfside Beach, S.C., could face decades in federal prison if convicted of all the charges lodged against him.

He currently serves as town manager of Surfside Beach and was placed on administrative leave with pay Thursday by the Town Council, said his executive assistant, Jan Lewis.

Merryman, who worked extensively in East Tennessee in the 1980s and 1990s, was best-known for his work in the MACH-TENN corruption probe that led to the arrests of scores of people, including nearly a dozen county sheriffs, on drug and gambling charges.

In 1994, Merryman got into hot water with his superiors after he admitted to having a brief affair with the live-in girlfriend of a Blount County drug kingpin during an investigation. The FBI suspended Merryman without pay for two weeks and gave him a letter of censure but never publicly acknowledged the incident.

According to the indictment returned Wednesday, Merryman transferred to the FBI's office in Myrtle Beach, S.C., in 1999 and launched an investigation into Asian brothels in early 2002. At some point, he became sexually involved with one of the spa network's "top managers," an illegal Korean immigrant named Hye Yung Kang, the indictment alleges.

In September 2002, Merryman had Kang classified as a confidential witness for the FBI, which meant that the federal government paid some of her expenses. Merryman also allegedly provided her with a letter that allowed her "to travel at will, via airline, without any identification," records show.

Kang allegedly made several trips to New York City, and after one of those trips she returned to Myrtle Beach with more than $20,000 she had earned from the spa business, court records state. Merryman also allegedly tried to influence immigration officials to give Kang a "worker identification card," which she would need to obtain a Social Security account number.

After he retired from the FBI, Merryman "attempted to use his status as a former FBI agent and his current position" in Surfside Beach to "shield Kang from prosecution and circumvent the immigrations laws of the United States," according to the indictment.

Merryman and another former FBI agent, Joe Mann, are also defendants in a civil lawsuit pending in federal court in Knoxville related to the 1982 shooting of pharmacist David Comer. Merryman and Mann were allegedly working undercover in a probe of Cocke County chop shops when they learned that a car thief, Billy Hall, had confessed to shooting Comer.


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Oct 12, 2011 - ... responded to a call on September 26, 2006 that a man was pretending to be an FBI agent. Police arrested the man, and Jackson searched his car. ... In December 2010, a Columbia, SC TV crew from WIS recorded Deputy ... to contact the Atlantic Beach Interim Town Manager to discuss why, with all these ...

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Hough named acting Beach police Chief

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The Colonial Beach Town Council has named Capt. Bruce Hough as the acting chief of police for a maximum of 90 days.
The council made the decision Jan. 2, two weeks after Elizabeth Legg resigned after just nine months on the job.
Hough, who joined the department in December 2012 after he retired from a 21-year career as an FBI special agent, had been in charge of investigations for the Colonial Beach police.
Hough said although he expressed interest in the position, he still was a little surprised to be picked. He said he has not decided whether he will apply for the job permanently.
“I’m proud for the consideration and appointment of acting chief and look forward to continue serving the town of Colonial Beach,” he said.
The council spent four hours deliberating in a closed-door session before approving the resignation of Legg and appointing Hough.
Mayor Mike Ham said while all the candidates had strong qualifications, Hough’s background with the FBI, hi

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January 07, 2015, 02:20 pm
Former Intelligence chairman to join CNN

Former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) is joining CNN as a national security commentator just days after his official retirement from Congress, where he served as chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence.



He’ll kick off his CNN tenure Wednesday on the network’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper," a spokeswoman with the network told The Hill.
The former FBI special agent and U.S. Army officer served seven terms in the House before he decided to retire in 2014 to do a syndicated radio show.

During his tenure, he regularly took to the airwaves to talk about national security and counterterrorism. During his four years as chairman, the committee dealt with the Benghazi consulate attacks, the Edward Snowden leak and the controversial CIA report that critics have dubbed the “torture report.”

Rogers is also well known for his support of Cyber Intelligence Sharing Protection Act, which would allow private companies to share information with the government to help protect against cyber threats. It passed the House in 2013, but languishe

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Member of DOJ Crime Family elected to gang of eight.

WeHo Congress member Adam Schiff promoted to “Gang of Eight



January 8, 2015

By Ryan Gierach, WeHo News
Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) was named
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Rep. Schiff is a former federal prosecutor, having served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles -

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MorphoTrak names FBI special agent Scott Swann as senior director ...
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January 9 2015


From 2009 to 2011 while a unit chief at the FBI CJIS division, Swann served as the FBI agency primary representative to the National Science Technology ...

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two reads


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Justice Department Set to Tap FBI Lawyer as Fraud Chief

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January 08, 2015

The U.S. Justice Department has tapped Andrew Weissmann, a former top lawyer at the FBI, to lead prosecution of financial and corporate fraud, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Weissmann, who led the Enron Task Force, will oversee U.S. investigations into interest-rate manipulation

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Evidence grows of Enron cover-up | Business | The Guardian
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Jan 15, 2002 - As evidence surfaced of a concerted cover-up of Enron's problems in the months leading up to the bankruptcy on December 2, it also emerged ...
Enron and 9-11; Connecting the Dots | Cabal Times
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Mar 13, 2012 - Remembering the victims of the 9-11 Cover-up ... The following is an attempt to connect the dots between Enron and ... When the Soviet Union broke up, the new Russia held 25% of the .... The FBI led an investigation into gold price-fixing, and the records of this investigation were kept in the FBI office on ...
The Enron Pipeline Connection to 9/11, by John J. Loftus, at ...
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At the time, O'Neill was the FBI agent in charge of the Embassy bombing ... document may be the first hard evidence to break the Enron pipeline cover-up apart.
Enron: ultimate agent of the American empire, by Larry Chin, 2/02
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Jump to The cover-up that no one is talking about - She is currently tracking both Enron and "Pug" ... received Enron monies, FBI foot -dragging, ...
ENRON-BUSH-HARVARD-WTC-OIL-CONNECTION
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Mar 4, 2002 - And an FBI source told The ENQUIRER: "Enron and Unocal dumped hundreds of millions of ..... ENRON: THE ANATOMY OF A COVER-UP
From Enron To Penn State, How Cover-Ups Happen : NPR
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Jul 26, 2012 - And while we've all learned that the cover-up is worse than the crime, very human .... Toby confessed to the FBI and served two years in prison.
The Enron Scandal | Anthony Hudson - Academia.edu
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Enron was founded in 1985 and was set up to be a world leader of electricity, natural ... they attempted to cover up the debt that was piling up on them with the help of the ... According to the FBI (2006), the Enron case would turn out to be the ...

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Mormon Mafia” Cited in FBI Discrimination Case

Three hundred-eleven His­panic FBI agents won a class action suit against the agency on September 30. A central argument in the suit was that their careers were stymied by the religious bias against non-Mormons of ranking FBI officials who are Mormon (LDS).
Charges of a “Mormon Mafia” in the FBI’s Los Angeles office have been circulating for years, but no one had taken the FBI to court on the matter until Matt Perez, an agent working out of El Paso, initiated the suit.

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This week's business agenda
January 11 2015


Carmine Nigro, a special agent in the Boston office of the FBI, speaks at the Smaller Business Association of New England's Breakfast Series on safeguarding

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Even His Family Was Blocked from It. Here’s Why.

Eric Zuesse

It might be the decisive piece of evidence proving who and what and how and why the MH17 Malaysian airliner over the conflict zone in Ukraine on 17 July 2014 was shot down, but the pilot’s corpse has been hidden even from the people who have the most right to see it.

The corpse of the pilot of the MH17 Malaysian airliner might contain in it bullets, or bullet-residues, that can prove a Ukrainian military jet intentionally fired into the pilot; or else it might contain only missile-shrapnel, which would be consistent only with the plane’s having been erroneously shot down by a ground-based missile such as the Ukrainian government says it was; but the Malaysian government has prohibited anyone to see it — not even his relatives, who are still trying to find out how and who murdered their loved-one and the 297 other people who were aboard that tragic plane on July 17th of 2014.

Until recently, the Malaysian government itself had had no access to the coroner’s report on the corpse: it was done by a Dutch coroner, in Holland.

The corpse has been hidden from everyone, and the Malaysian Government isn’t even being permitte

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FBI is Still Hiding 58-Year-Old Documents about Eleanor Roosevelt ...

Researchers are hoping to obtain the last bits of information the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is keeping secret about former
first lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

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Police coverups of children sexually abused
by wealthy politicians


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Police watchdog expands inquiry into alleged cover-up of paedophile network


IPCC announces further 12 investigations into allegations of corruption in Met police – bringing total to 30 inquiries


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The police watchdog is to broaden its investigation into claims Scotland Yard covered up a network of high-profile paedophiles dating back to the 1970s, after a significant increase in allegations made by retired officers.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission is examining 30 allegations of police corruption in the handling of child abuse claims, including allegations that special branch and senior police officers intervened to block investigations into VIPs and politicians.

The IPCC announced 12 more investigations into the Metropolitan police’s handling of abuse claims on Wednesday, adding to 17 that were announced earlier this year. Another allegation has been made against Essex police, bringing the total to 3o.

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The majority of the investigations stem from allegations made by retired Met officers, the watchdog said. Among the new investigations, one concerns allegations that a prosecution against a government official over child sexual abuse images was dropped on the instructions of senior officers and lawyers.

Another concerns allegations that high-ranking officers prematurely shut down an investigation into a south-west London paedophile ring in the 1970s.

A separate investigation has been launched into claims that an MP was arrested and then released without charge following an inquiry into a south London paedophile ring in the 80s. It is alleged that officers were threatened with breaking the Official Secrets Act if they spoke of the events.

The investigations are to be conducted by the internal professional standards departments at the Met and the Essex force but will be overseen by the IPCC. However, Scotland Yard revealed a further 18 allegations have been referred to the police watchdog and the force is waiting on a decision.

“We would encourage anyone who has information or knowledge of how these historical cases were investigated to come forward and assist with the investigations,” a spokeswoman for the Met said.

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Among the most recent wave of allegations to be looked at by the IPCC is that evidence relating to child abuse at a youth club in the 1980s and 90s that involved politicians and council officers went missing from a London police station.

Another claim alleges that an MP was charged with specimen child sex offences and not more numerous or serious offences. It has also been alleged that special branch made attempts in the 70s to interfere in an investigation that would have revealed an MP’s involvement in child sex offences.

A further claim contends that an allegation of child sex abuse in central London in the 80s was halted when it became apparent that an MP was involved.

Other allegations referred to the watchdog in March arose during Operation Fairbank, Scotland Yard’s investigation into allegations that establishment figures abused children at Elm Guest House in Barnes, south-west London, during the 70s and 80s.

Investigators are also examining claims that Essex police failed to examine intelligence provided by a witness that an MP was involved in child sexual abuse.

Separately, the future of Operation Midland, Scotland Yard’s investigation into an alleged ring of high-profile paedophiles, is in the balance. The force is considering the findings of a review of the inquiry, and there have been reports that the evidence of its key witness may be in doubt.

The operation was set up by the Met nearly a year ago to examine claims that boys were systematically abused in the 70s and 80s by figures from politics, the military and security services at locations across southern England, including the Dolphin Square estate in south-west London.

Detectives have faced calls to shelve Midland, which is based on the testimony of one witness, known only as Nick, once described by police as “credible and true”. Recent reports have suggested faith in his evidence has weakened.

It has now emerged that Scotland Yard launched a review of Midland in April. The review concluded at the end of last month and the findings are now being considered.

A Met spokesman said: “An internal review of Operation Midland was commissioned on 8 April 2015. It is routine for investigations of this nature to be reviewed in this way. The review was carried out, with the full report submitted on 25 August. The product of this review is under consideration.

“We are not prepared to comment on the review in any detail at this time as Midland is an ongoing investigation.”

On Tuesday, Ken Macdonald QC, the former director of public prosecutions, said detectives investigating historical child abuse allegations should not indulge “narcissists and fantasists”.

Nigel Evans MP, the former Commons deputy speaker who was acquitted of rape and sexual assault charges last year, criticised police for playing “judge and jury” over Nick’s allegations before the investigation had concluded.

Nick’s claims formed part of the allegations put to Harvey Proctor, the former Conservative MP, during a police interview. At a press conference last month Proctor said he was completely innocent and accused police of a witch-hunt against homosexuals.

He disclosed that he had been questioned about his alleged involvement in a paedophile ring with the former prime minister Edward Heath and the former home secretary Leon Brittan.

Nick has claimed MPs and other high-profile figures were linked to the alleged murder of three children aged seven to 16 between the mid-70s and mid-80s, including that of a child who was run down by a car.

At a press conference last year, DS Kenny McDonald, who heads up Operation Midland, said he believed Nick’s evidence to be “credible and true”. But McDonald in recent we

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