Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A pair of fugitive tax scofflaws secretly built an elaborate bunker at the Washington state home. The New York Daily News reports that Radu Nemes and his wife, Diana, were arrested in March on accusations of conspiring to hide at least $68 million in taxes. The pair have not been charged with…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A 20-year-old Romanian hacker is suspected of breaking into several NASA and Pentagon servers and posting confidential data from the servers on his blog, the Associated Press reports. Romanian officials are investigating the youth, officials said on Tuesday, in cooperation with the FBI. Razvan Manole Cernaianu, reportedly an information technology student,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Fourteen Romanian citizens apparently banked on the gullibility of mankind. Federal authorities in Connecticut last week announced charges against the 14 for allegedly getting personal information from people on the Internet through a scheme known as “phishing.” The indictment includes allegations that one or more of the defendants in June 2005 …
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A DEA sting resulted in authorities charging a group of people with plotting to move large shipments of drugs and weapons for the Taliban, authorities announced Monday. In court documents unsealed in New York, authorities charged seven people with conspiring to provide “various forms of support to DEA confidential sources whom…
