Latest Federal Bureau of Investigation Stories
ACLU documents show agents gathering intelligence on those they met WASHINGTON, Dec. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today expressed concern about the "chilling effect" on constitutionally-protected activities that may result from the apparent use of FBI community outreach efforts to secretly gather intelligence on American Muslim communities, groups and individuals. According to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties...
Federal authorities announced on Monday that they had shut down 150 websites for selling counterfeit merchandise to unsuspecting online shoppers. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton and Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer reported the results of a joint three-month investigation by ICE and the FBI, saying the probe had resulted in the seizure of counterfeit goods including shoes, purses, sunglasses, sports jerseys and other items. The authorities made...
Four cybercriminals arrested in the Philippines last Wednesday were allegedly paid by terrorists to hack into the accounts of AT&T business customers, the FBI and that country's Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) told reporters over the weekend. According to Somini Sengupta of the New York Times and CNET's Steven Musil, the three men and one woman arrested in multiple raids conducted in the capital city of Manila were affiliated with an individual named Muhammad Zamir....
The Department of Homeland Security and FBI have denied allegations that a cyber intrusion caused an Illinois water utility to burn out. Claims were made last Friday that hackers managed to remotely compromise a central Illinois utility network and shutdown a water pump on November 8. The DHS and FBI dismissed the conclusions that it was the first cyber attack on a U.S. industrial system. "After detailed analysis, DHS and the FBI have found no evidence of a cyber intrusion into the...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Officials of major federal law enforcement agencies thanked Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA), the top Democratic appropriator for the Justice Department, for leading the successful effort to fund federal enforcement agencies for the coming year. Director Robert S. Mueller III of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Marshals Service Director Stacia A. Hylton, on behalf of 17,842 FBI agents and marshals, thanked the...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Conference of Mayors today denounced tomorrow's expected release of city-by-city crime rankings by CQ Press as an annual misuse of FBI crime data at the expense of the reputations and economies of this nation's cities. A book containing the rankings is scheduled for publication November 22. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110125/MM36443LOGO) "Again CQ Press has defied the FBI's own warnings against using its data to...
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Special Committee of The Pennsylvania State University Board of Trustees announced today that it has engaged former FBI Director and federal judge Louis J. Freeh to lead an independent investigative review into all aspects of the University's actions with regard to the allegations of child abuse involving a former Penn State employee contained in the recent Grand Jury report. The Special Committee and Judge Freeh said that...
Claims that hackers managed to remotely compromise a central Illinois utility network and shut down a water pump on November 8 are being looked at by federal investigators, Reuters reported on Friday. In what reporters from that news agency are saying could be "the first known foreign cyber attack on an industrial system on U.S. soil," state police and the Illinois Statewide Terrorism and Intelligence Center believe that hackers used credentials stolen by an unidentified American company...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- From 2003 to 2009, a reported 4,813 persons died during or shortly after law enforcement personnel attempted to arrest or restrain them, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. About 60 percent of arrest-related deaths (2,931) were classified as homicides by law enforcement personnel and 40 percent (1,882) were attributed to other manners of death. Suicide and death by intoxication each accounted for about 11...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Tuesday evening, November 8, the National Law Enforcement Museum joined with Warner Bros. Pictures to debut legendary director Clint Eastwood's biopic, J. Edgar, at the Newseum in Washington, DC. Mr. Eastwood, Honorary Chairman of the National Law Enforcement Museum and the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, joined special guests and dignitaries at the red carpet event, to promote J. Edgar, which examines the compelling...
