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FBI: More Than 300,000 Could Lose Web Access in July
By CNN In the wake of a multi-million-dollar online scam, more than 300,000 computer users worldwide could find themselves without Web access this summer. Luckily for them, it will only take a few clicks to clean things up. The FBI announced that it’s created a website where users can check whether they’re infected with malware…
FBI Seizes Server in Anonymous Pittsburgh Bomb Threat Case
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Feds roiled progressives, leftists, and free speech activists last Wednesday when they removed a server from the co-location of Riseup and May First/People Link offices in NYC — all part of an FBI probe into bomb threats against the University of Pittsburgh, according to the organization Riseup. The FBI appeared to target…
FBI and Homeland Security Not Only Agencies That Want to Fly Drones
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI and Homeland Security aren’t the only law enforcement agencies that have gotten permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to fly drones in the friendly sky. CNET reports that new documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation from a lawsuit against the feds show that some very small police…
FBI Returns Wedding Ring to Head of Michigan Militia
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — The wedding ring has been returned. The leaders of a Michigan militia, who was acquitted in a high-profile case in Detroit that involved allegations of killing cops and revolting against the government, has finally gotten his wedding ring after two years, Ed White of the Associated Press reported. The…
NY U.S. Atty. Preet Bharara Among Time’s Most 100 Influential People in the World
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Included in a list of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World are folks like President Obama, comedian Steve Colbert, movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. Bharara is in obviously good company. And in the media’s endless search for Superman…
FBI and NYPD Reopen 1979 Etan Patz Disappearance
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com The disappearance of 6-year- old New York boy Etan Patz 33 years ago has never been resolved nor forgotten. The New York Times reports 40 police and FBI investigators swarmed a SoHo art storage space on Thursday morning, ready to disassemble the 13 by 62 foot space brick by brick in search…
Judge Orders Ex-Congressman William Jefferson to Prison
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Prison is calling for ex-Congressman William Jefferson, the New Orleans politician who gained national fame after the FBI found $90,000 stuffed in his freezer in 2005. Bruce Alpert, the star reporter for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, reports that the fed judge in the case on Friday ordered Jefferson, 65, to report…
FBI Busts 15 in $8.7 Mil Midwest Unemployment Insurance Scam
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com In general, the entrepreneurial spirit should be lauded. Unfortunately, in this case, it was purely criminal. According to an FBI press release, 15 defendants allegedly registered 80 fake business names in Illinois, Indiana and Minnesota, then used these to file for unemployment insurance benefits to the tune of $8.7 Million. Defendants reportedly…