By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is offering some serious cash for information leading to the arrest of the bureau’s most wanted cyber criminal. Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, 31, is accused of hacking 1 million computers in the U.S. and internationally. Newsweek reports that the FBI is offering $3 million for information on capturing Bogachev, who…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI spent a half-billion-dollars on a Sentinel computerized file system, but the system is rife with problems, Newsweek reports. Officials insisted the Sentinel would be completed by the end of 2009 for $425 million. But a report by the Justice Department Inspector General found mismanagement, cost overruns and technical problems…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Imprisoned ex-FBI John Connolly, who was the Boston case agent for informant/mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, tells Newsweek: “The Justice Department is going to do everything within its power to try to make sure the full story never comes out” about Bulger’s activities and his relationship with the FBI. Connolly is serving…
