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Jury in William Jefferson Trial Sees America’s Most Famous Freezer
Well, sure there was key testimony from an FBI agent in the case. But at the end of the day, the jury got to see America’s most famous freezer: William Jefferson’s. The oneĀ where FBI agents found $90,000 in marked FBI bills. America’s Most Famous Freezer/Government Exhibit By Jonathan Tilove and Bruce Alpert New Orleans…
Woman Offers Undercover FBI Agent Swimming Pool and Gas Money to Kill Ex-Boyfriend
The FBI suggested this was the first time a murder-for-hire case began with text messaging. The woman wasn’t exactly offering the world for the murder: an above-ground swimming pool and $200 in gas money. She could have at least thrown in a couple inflatable rafts for the pool in the whole deal. By Steve Schmadeke…
Disbarred Lawyer Testifies that He Tipped Off Wrong People: Boston FBI and Police Detective
The ugliest chapter in the history of the Boston FBI continued to unravel in federal court in Boston where families are suing the government for allegedly failing to stop mobster/FBI informants from killing. In Tuesday’s testimony, a disbarred attorney said he started to suspect that the FBI and Boston police were crooked. By Shelley Murphy…
Jurors See Video of Informant Handing Rep. William Jefferson $100,000
Nearly everyone has heard about the marked $90,000 in FBI money FBI agents found in Jefferson’s home freezer on Aug. 3, 2005. On Tuesday, jurors saw an FBI video of a government informant handing $100,000 to Jefferson in a brief case. When agents raided the freezer, $10,000 of that payoff was missing. The prosecution hopes…
FBI Report Says Mortgage Fraud Problem Continues to Grow
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – The mortgage fraud problem is growing and continues to plague the crippled real estate market. The FBI on Tuesday released the 2008 Mortgage Fraud Report which showed that mortgage fraud Suspicious Activity Reports increased 36 percent to 63,713 during fiscal year 2008, compared to 46,717 during the same period…
FBI Investigating Inglewood, Calif. Police Shooting
The Justice Department Civil Rights Division is already looking into the department. And the Los Angeles Times found last year that 5 of 11 people shot and killed by the department since 2003 were unarmed. Something needs to change there. By Ari B. Bloomekatz Los Angeles Times The FBI has opened a criminal investigation into…
Calif. Man Pleads Guilty to Fed Charges of Posting Hollywood Films on Internet
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If there’s any place on earth that takes the illegal distribution of movies seriously, it’s the Los Angeles area. Derek Hawthorne, 21, is learning that the hard way. Hawthorne pleaded guilty Monday before U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner in Los Angeles to two felony counts of illegally uploading copyrighted works….
Alaska FBI Says Sarah Palin Not Under Investigation
Strike that off the list of reasons Sarah Palin may have resigned… By Josh Meyer Los Angeles Times A day after Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin resigned, a federal official in her home state dismissed one potential explanation for her sudden and unexpected resignation: a rumored FBI investigation into the former Wasilla mayor on public corruption…