Records Reveal Geek Squads’ Relationship with FBI Is Deeper Than Previously Reported
The FBI has paid Best Buy’s Geek Squad employees to act as informants for a decade, much longer than previously reported.
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Judge Drops Child Pornography Case, Saying FBI Misrepresented Facts
A judge dismissed child pornography charges against a California doctor whose computer was searched following a repair by Best Buy’s Geek Squad because the FBI agent made “several false or misleading statements or omissions . . . with reckless disregard for the truth” in a search warrant affidavit, The Washington Post reports.
FBI Pays Best Buy Technicians to ‘Ferret Out Child Porn” on Computers
Technicians for Best Buy’s “Geek Squad City” are being paid by the FBI as part of “a joint venture ferret out child porn,” according to claims in new federal documents.
Attorney: FBI Used Best Buy Employee to Perform Warrantless Searches
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Best Buy employee who worked at the company’s repair center served as a paid FBI informant who essentially performed warrantless searches on electronics at the maintenance facility in Kentucky, according to the attorney of a doctor facing child pornography charges. Since 2009, “the FBI was dealing with a paid agent…