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Jul 31, 2007 4:39 AM CDT

FBI Raids Alaska Senator's Home

Feds probe politician's ties to oil contractor in corruption probe

(Newser) - FBI and IRS agents raided the vacation home of Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska yesterday, seeking records of his relationship with a oil field contractor jailed in a corruption probe, AP reports. The contractor profited from tens of millions of dollars in federal contracts and also supervised the renovation...

Lynchings Re-enacted to Probe Cases

Jul 27, 2007 2:55 PM CDT

Lynchings Re-enacted to Probe Cases

FBI uses ketchup and choreography to solve civil rights cold cases

(Newser) - Graphic re-enactments of lynchings, including ketchup-covered doll ‘fetuses’ ripped from ‘pregnant victims,’ were staged in a Georgia campaign to warm up some cold civil rights cases, CNN reports. Some groups have also offered private rewards, as local and national efforts converge in a desire to bring '60s-era...

FBI Chief's Testimony Contradicts Gonzales

Jul 27, 2007 5:14 AM CDT

FBI Chief's Testimony Contradicts Gonzales

Democrats demand perjury probe

(Newser) - Pressure mounted on Alberto Gonzales yesterday as FBI director Robert Mueller directly contradicted the attorney general in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. Mueller and Gonzales gave dramatically different accounts about whether the Justice department's secret eavesdropping program was the subject of the now-legendary nighttime confrontation at the hospital bedside...

FBI Pays Out
$101M in
Mob Suit

Jul 26, 2007 4:54 PM CDT

FBI Pays Out $101M in Mob Suit

Record award for four men wrongfully sent to prison for 1965 murder

(Newser) - A federal judge ordered the government to pay $101.7M after the FBI withheld evidence related to a 1965 murder in Boston that sent four men to prison for three decades. "This case is about intentional misconduct, suborning of perjury" and "the framing of innocent men," said...

Donaghy to Turn Himself In

Jul 24, 2007 6:40 AM CDT

Donaghy to Turn Himself In

Ex-NBA ref will surrender to feds in big-league gambling investigation

(Newser) - The former NBA referee accused of betting on league games will turn himself in to federal authorities, but not until later this week, USA Today reports. The FBI says Tim Donaghy originally came under suspicion during organized-crime investigations, and officials speculate that the 13-year veteran likely wagered on games, including...

FBI Names Rogue NBA Ref

Jul 21, 2007 2:39 PM CDT

FBI Names Rogue NBA Ref

Veteran Tim Donaghy accused of mob ties, illegal bets totaling thousands of dollars

(Newser) - The FBI has officially blown the whistle on an NBA referee accused on illegal gambling. The feds are investigating claims that over the past two years veteran Tim Donaghy officiated a number of games on which he or his associates had placed bets—which might have totaled thousands of dollars....

FBI Probes Gambling Ref

Jul 20, 2007 8:00 PM CDT

FBI Probes Gambling Ref

Mafia-connected NBA official rigged games and earned big bucks over two seasons

(Newser) - The FBI is investigating an NBA referee accused of manipulating point spreads in games he officiated as part of a wider mob-orchestrated gambling ring, the New York Post reports. The official allegedly both reffed and placed bets on numerous games from 2005 to 2007 in a desperate attempt to pay...

Gonzales Alerted to
FBI Misdeeds

Jul 10, 2007 9:33 AM CDT

Gonzales Alerted to FBI Misdeeds

AG told of violations before testimony that no abuses occurred

(Newser) - The FBI alerted Alberto Gonzales that agents had violated privacy regulations at least six times in the weeks before he told a Senate committee that no abuses had occurred, the Washington Post reports. The 2005 and 2006 internal reports detailed numerous problems with FBI activities under the Patriot Act, but...

Death Threats Sent to
Goldman Sachs

Jul 6, 2007 12:10 PM CDT

Death Threats Sent to Goldman Sachs

'We are inside. You cannot stop us,' read anonymous letters

(Newser) - Investment powerhouse Goldman Sachs has been the subject of menacing letters sent to newspapers across the country, prompting an investigation by the FBI. "Hundreds will die," warn the letters that have been traced back to Queens, New York. "We are inside. You cannot stop us."

FBI Recovers 'Good Earth' Manuscript

Jun 27, 2007 7:03 PM CDT

FBI Recovers 'Good Earth' Manuscript

Original typed draft of Pearl Buck's novel was missing since 1966

(Newser) - The manuscript of Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Earth" has turned up at a Philadelphia auction house, having gone missing in 1966. The FBI was called in after the daughter of one of the author's secretaries tried to put it for sale, the AP reports. Buck died in1973, believing...

FBI Name Checks Stall Immigration

Jun 27, 2007 4:13 AM CDT

FBI Name Checks Stall Immigration

Program still understaffed 6 years after 9/11; would-be citizens frustrated

(Newser) - Bureaucratic bottlenecks are causing such long delays for prospective citizens, reports the Houston Chronicle, that hundreds of frustrated immigrants are now suing the federal government to try to speed up their background checks. Immigration Service figures show that about 16% of cases—over 51,000 people—have been pending between...

Stylish Bandit Fleeces Banks, Escapes FBI

Jun 19, 2007 9:30 PM CDT

Stylish Bandit Fleeces Banks, Escapes FBI

Sporting ponytail, and possibly gun, blonde pulls 3 jobs in a month

(Newser) - A bank robber who's pulled off three heists this month has all the conventional moves but none of the usual look. The FBI is looking for a 20-something blonde who, with her ponytail poking through a baseball cap, knocked off a Washington bank late last month, capping a spree with...

Alaskan Tribes Score No-Bid Bonanza

Jun 19, 2007 6:52 AM CDT

Alaskan Tribes Score No-Bid Bonanza

Sen. Ted Stevens under scrutiny for shady contracts

(Newser) - Alaskan tribes are so successful in securing no-bid government contracts, they're spurring a federal investigation into conduct by Alaskan senator Ted Stevens, reports Salon. In 1986, Stevens pushed through a law that gave Alaskan companies "small business" preferences—even if they belong to a multi-billion dollar parent corporation and...

FBI Jet Veers Off Course

Jun 12, 2007 10:14 AM CDT

FBI Jet Veers Off Course

Tricked-out aircraft designated for counterterrorism often ferries director

(Newser) - The FBI says it needs its $40 million Gulfstream V jet for counterterrorism missions, yet nearly one-quarter of its flight time consists of routine trips by director Robert Mueller, the Washington Post reports. A key Republican senator calls this use of the only agency aircraft capable of international flights "...

Feds Beef Up Presence in New Orleans

Jun 4, 2007 3:03 PM CDT

Feds Beef Up Presence in New Orleans

Surge in violent crime endangers post-Katrina rebound

(Newser) - Violent crime is such a pressing problem in New Orleans that the federal government is shoring up the local criminal justice system, USA Today reports. Crime was up 107% in the first quarter of 2007 over the previous year, a jump the NOPD attributes to population growth—but the increased...

Ex-Coke Employee
Gets 8 Years

May 23, 2007 2:25 PM CDT

Ex-Coke Employee Gets 8 Years

Former secretary stole secrets and samples; tried to sell them to Pepsi

(Newser) - A former secretary for Coca-Cola was sentenced to eight years in federal prison Wednesday for conspiring to steal trade secrets—documents and samples of unlaunched products—and then sell them to Pepsi. Joya Williams was nabbed after the FBI traced a letter soliciting a kickback from Pepsi, sent by one...

Student Bomber Foiled at Falwell Funeral

May 23, 2007 5:49 AM CDT

Student Bomber Foiled at Falwell Funeral

FBI found explosives in Liberty University student's car

(Newser) - A student at Jerry Falwell's university is under arrest for a bomb plot against protesters at the late evangelist's funeral. A relative of Mark Uhl tipped off authorities, who found five bombs in the 19-year-old Liberty University student's trunk. Uhl admitted he planned to use the bombs to disrupt a...

Doctor Guilty of al-Qaeda Pledge

May 22, 2007 10:41 AM CDT

Doctor Guilty of al-Qaeda Pledge

(Newser) - A Muslim doctor from Florida who was caught in an FBI sting has been convicted of conspiring to provide material support to al-Qaeda. Rafiq Sabir, 52, faces up to 30 years in prison after he swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden to an undercover agent posing as an al-Qaeda recruiter...

FBI Expert Reopens JFK Shooting

May 17, 2007 8:48 AM CDT

FBI Expert Reopens JFK Shooting

Bullet analysis used to rule out second gunman is now discredited

(Newser) - Evidence proving that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone has been discredited by a research team using techniques unavailable to previous investigators. Bullet analysis used to rule out a second JFK assassin is called "fundamentally flawed" by the new team, led by the former chief metallurgy expert for the FBI,...

Doolittle Steps Down After
FBI Raid

Apr 20, 2007 5:54 AM CDT

Doolittle Steps Down After FBI Raid

Yields Appropriations seat under Abramoff probe pressure

(Newser) - Republican John Doolittle has ceded his coveted seat on the House Appropriations Committee—a week after FBI agents made a surprise raid on his Virginia home. Doolittle and his wife, Julie, a consultant, are under investigation for their ties to besmirched fundraiser Jack Abramoff.