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A former FBI employee who raised questions about the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol had his security clearance reinstated and was awarded 27 months of backpay after being suspended since February 2022, his lawyer told CNN. FBI staff operations specialist Marcus Allen had his security clearance suspended in 2022 when the FBI…
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An ex-FBI agent has been sentenced to prison for accepting $225,000 from a foreign government while serving in the agency. Charles McGonigal, 55, was found guilty of taking money from an Albanian agent. At the time, McGonigal oversaw counterintelligence and national-security matters as the top agent in the FBI’s New York office from 2017 and…
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A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official has pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate sanctions on Russia by going to work, after he retired, for an oligarch he once investigated. Charles McGonigal, 55, said he was “deeply remorseful” for work he did in 2021 for the billionaire industrialist Oleg Deripaska. McGonigal was a former special agent…
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A Utah man accused of making threats against President Joe Biden was shot and killed by FBI agents hours before the president was expected to land in the state Wednesday, authorities said. Special agents were trying to serve a warrant on the home of Craig Deleeuw Robertson in Provo, south of Salt Lake City, when…
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is pushing for the FBI to build new headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama, instead of Washington, D.C., to take politics out of how the agency functions, the The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. According to the report, Jordan may cut the bureau’s funding unless it moves to Alabama’s midsized city, roughly 700 miles…
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The Federal Bureau of Intelligence, FBI, has rejected the application by an American, Jeffrey Guterman, a retired American mental health counsellor asking it to release a file on Nigeria’s President-elect Bola Tinubu. Guterman, in a tweet disclosing the development on Friday, said his request was rejected because, according to the FBI, “the existence of files…
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Summary Here’s where things stand for Jack Teixeira He has been charged with two crimes, with prosecutors alleging: Inside the courtroom Jack Teixeira appeared in federal court earlier today to learn the charges against him. No cameras were allowed inside, but this court sketch has recently emerged. ‘White House failed to secure classified docs’ –…
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The FBI is “concerned” by reports that secret “police stations” linked to China have been set up across the US. A September report issued by the NGO Safeguard Defenders revealed the presence of these stations around the world, including in New York. The FBI’s director, Christopher Wray, told senior politicians that the agency was monitoring…
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The U.S. Justice Department on Friday asked a federal appeals court to let it resume reviewing classified materials seized in an FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate. In the filing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, the Justice Department said the circuit court should halt part of the…
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has charged two Nigerians for $6.2million wire fraud after attempts to scam Americans of $25.2million. The defendants are accused of defrauding nearly two dozen public and private entities around the United States, including at least one in Oregon. The Department of Justice (DoJ) indictment unsealed in federal court charged…
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The U.S. Justice Department’s search of former President Donald Trump’s home this month turned up a “limited” number of documents potentially subject to attorney-client privilege, federal prosecutors said in a court filing on Monday. The new disclosure by the Justice Department could bolster a request by Trump’s legal team to appoint a special master to…
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Former President Donald Trump on Monday called for himself to be declared the “rightful winner” of the 2020 presidential election, or for the vote to be held again. Trump’s outburst came after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed that he limited the spread of a story damaging to Joe Biden’s campaign on the advice of the…
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Families of the victims of the September 11 attacks who are suing the government of Saudi Arabia in a United States federal court in New York are expecting the US government to imminently release a key FBI report. The 16-page report is an FBI summary and analysis of the agency’s long-running investigation into the activities…
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The Police Service Commission has said it will determine the fate of the Commander of the IGP Intelligence Response and Monitoring Team, Abba Kyari, a deputy commissioner of police, indicted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for alleged involvement in a $1.1m Internet fraud. The commission also noted that Kyari might face dismissal or demotion,…
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The government of the United States of America has declared six Nigerians wanted for their involvement in business email compromise schemes. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) declared the Nigerians wanted in a tweet in the early hours of Saturday, June 27, 2020, asking the public to provide information about them. Help the #FBI find…
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The FBI had little evidence to launch the investigation into the Trump presidential campaign, according to U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr. In a statement released on Monday Barr was highly critical of the FBI, although he followed his criticism with praise for the current-day FBI administration. “Nothing is more important than the credibility and integrity of…
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