A Chinese national pleaded guilty on Jan. 6 to conspiracy to commit economic espionage after he tried to steal a trade secret from his U.S. employer to advance his career at a Chinese state-run research institute. Haitao Xiang, 44, a legal permanent U.S. resident formerly from Missouri, worked for Monsanto, a St. Louis-based agrochemical and…
Chinese Scientist Pleads Guilty to Stealing From US Agricultural Biotech Firm
Avoid Crooks’ Tricky Smishing Tactics When Waiting for Package Deliveries
While waiting for your last holiday purchase to arrive, it may be tempting to open a text inviting you to check new tracking information. Don’t do it, warns Florida’s Attorney General Ashley Moody, unless you’re sure the text really did come from your shipper. Scam “robotexts” about package shipping updates are a common way crooks…
Avoid New Scam Tactics When Waiting for Package Deliveries, Authorities Warn
While waiting for your last holiday purchase to arrive, it may be tempting to open a text inviting you to check new tracking information. Don’t do it, warns Florida’s Attorney General Ashley Moody, unless you’re sure the text really did come from your shipper. Scam “robotexts” about package shipping updates are a common way crooks…
Man Arrested in Deaths of Model, Architect to Remain Jailed on $3.4 Million Bail on Sex Charges
LOS ANGELES—A judge ordered on Dec. 23 a Beverly Hills man who was arrested in connection with last month’s deaths of a model and her friend and subsequently charged with sexually assaulting four women in alleged attacks dating back as far as 2010 to remain jailed in lieu of a $3.4 million bail. Superior Court Judge Victoria B….
Former FBI Agent Pleads No Contest to Beating Wife, Avoids Jail Time
A former high-level FBI agent pleaded no contest on Monday to a charge of aggravated assault. Richard Trask worked as a special agent for the FBI for 10 years. Trask was arrested over the summer for allegedly assaulting his wife at their home in Kalamazoo County. Body camera footage and police reports showed Trask’s wife…
Jan. 6 Is Looking Like a ‘Fedsurrection’
Commentary Things are always worse than they seem. That seems to be a good rule of thumb these days. Take the FBI. Every sentient person knows that the Bureau has had a rough couple years. The Russia Collusion hoax revealed an agency shot through with corruption and partisan bias. But the rot goes far beyond…
Former FBI Lawyer Who Fabricated Evidence in Trump-Russia Probe Restored to ‘Good Standing’ by DC Bar
The former FBI lawyer who admitted to fabricating evidence against a former Donald Trump associate during the Trump-Russia investigation has been restored to “good standing” status by the District of Columbia Bar. Kevin Clinesmith was restored despite being a convicted felon who has not yet finished his probation. Clinesmith pleaded guilty last year to doctoring…
Facts Matter (Dec. 15): $548 Million Given to Informants by FBI and Other Agencies, Many Commit ‘Authorized’ Crime
According to a new bombshell report, the FBI as well as several other federal agencies spent about half a billion dollars on informants over the course of the last several years—with many of these informants committing authorized crimes. Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, the state supreme court recently ruled in favor of parents and officially threw out…
No Warrant, No Problem: Report Details Law Enforcement’s Data Purchases
Instead of obtaining warrants to collect geolocation data from companies, U.S. federal law enforcers have turned to simply purchasing such information—a state of affairs that has privacy advocates calling for Congress to enact reforms. Law enforcement’s purchases of bulk data has been on the rise since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Carpenter v US,…
FBI Officials Had Sex With Prostitutes While Overseas on Assignment: Watchdog
Four FBI officials had sex with prostitutes while on assignment overseas, the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) found. The investigation also pointed to a fifth official solicited prostitutes but not having sex with them, the watchdog said in a summary (pdf) of the probe released Tuesday. The four officials who engaged with…
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