LDS Freedom Forum

guess what former FBI agent runs the Security Dept at
Aetna?

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Aetna rate hike excessive, California insurance commissioner says
Dave Jones
California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones lashed out at health insurer Aetna for raising premiums as much as 20% on some small businesses starting Jan. 1. 2015



California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones says Aetna is imposing excessive rate hikes on small employers
California voters rejected Prop. 45, which would have enabled Dave Jones to block health insurance rate hikes
Health insurance giant Aetna Inc. is imposing excessive rate hikes on more than 5,000 small employers, according to California's insurance commissioner.

As always our goal is to become better criminal justice
consumers

Here is a good lesson about one of the most important tools in a
taxpayer funded FBI agent' s toolbox.

The tool is called. plausible denial


The New York Times is the principal public relations
bureau for the Bureau of the FBI....kinda redundant...

You know Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue is
currently suing the FBI to turn over the surveillance
videotapes taken of the Murragh Building just before
during and just after the Oklahoma City bombing.
Taxpayer funded FBI agents say they can't find them.
So FBI Director. James ' I don't torture' Comey not to be
confused with Robert ' BCCI Coverup ' Mueller turns
to his buddies at the New York Times to run this timely
story to show the Judge when the FBI goes back into court next
week with Jesse Trentadue.
Notice I made no mention of very special SL FBI agent
Adam Quirk who allegedely threatened Jesse Trentadue's
no 1 key witness so the witness never showed up to
testify. Say what ,You recognize the name of Adam Quirk
as the FBI agent who was arrested this week for beating up
his girl friend?

see
FBI Agent Accused of Witness Tampering Arrested as OKC Bombing ...
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3 days ago - FBI Agent Adam Grant Quirk was arrested over the weekend following ... submitted by attorney for the plaintiff in the case, Jesse C. Trentadue v.


Judge to FBI: Go probe yourself on OKC bombing
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Aug 27, 2014 hearing on the matter, in which Trentadue accuses the FBI of threatening ... the name of the FBI agent who had contacted him, Adam Quirk.


Now for some FBI Plausible Denial



see link for full plausible

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F.B.I. Evidence Is Often Mishandled, an Internal Inquiry Finds


The J. Edgar Hoover F.B.I. building in Washington. Auditors have found many problems with how the bureau handles evidence.

DECEMBER 19, 2014
F.B.I. agents in every region of the country have mishandled, mislabeled and lost evidence, according to a highly critical internal investigation that discovered errors with nearly half the pieces of evidence it reviewed.

The evidence collection and retention system is the backbone of the F.B.I.’s investigative process, and the report said it is beset by problems. It also found that the F.B.I. was storing more weapons, less money and valuables, and two tons more drugs than its records had indicated.

The report’s findings, based on a review of more than 41,000 pieces of evidence in F.B.I. offices around the country, could have consequences for criminal investigations and prosecutions. Lawyers can use even minor record-keeping discrepancies to get evidence thrown out of court, and the F.B.I. was alerting prosecutors around the country on Friday that they may need to disclose the errors to defendants.

Many of the problems cited in the report appear to be hiccups in the F.B.I.’s transition to a computer system known as Sentinel, which went online in 2012 and was intended to move the bureau away from a case-management system based on paper files. But other problems, including materials that disappeared or were taken from F.B.I. evidence rooms and not returned, are more serious.

“A majority of the errors identified were due in large part to human error, attributable to a lack of training and program management oversight,” auditors wrote in the report, which was obtained by The New York Times.

F.B.I. officials on Friday said that they decided on their own to conduct the review after discovering during an internal audit that there might be issues with the record keeping for evidence.

“The FBI identified issues primarily related to the migration of its earlier record-keeping process to its updated case management system,” said Michael Kortan, the F.B.I.’s chief spokesman. “The bureau is now strengthening procedures in field offices across the country to improve administrative consistency and record-keeping.”


The F.B.I. is separately dealing with the fallout from a case at its Washington office, where an agent is under investigation for tampering with evidence. That has led to the dismissal of convictions in some drug cases. Though the internal review is unrelated to that matter, the issues are so entwined that the F.B.I. plans to distribute the report to dozens of lawyers involved whose cases were affected by the Washington investigation, officials said.

The errors cited in the audit range in severity from computer glitches and duplicate bar codes to evidence that could not be located. The investigation found that federal agents had removed 1,600 pieces of evidence from storage and had not returned them for more than four months. One piece of evidence in a drug case has been signed out since 2003. Another piece of evidence has been out since 2006, the report found.

Because the audit was based on a sample, the actual number of items that have been checked out and not returned is probably much higher.

The results also varied by field office. In Newark, Honolulu, Milwaukee, Washington and Richmond, Va., for instance, auditors found problems with the handling of more than 70 percent of firearms in evidence. By comparison, offices in El Paso, New Haven and Sacramento turned up error rates in the single digits.

When Sentinel went online, the bureau said it would streamline investigations and make it easier for analysts and agents to “link cases with similar information through expanded search capabilities.” It was also supposed to make information more quickly available to investigators in different field offices.

A report released in September by the Department of Justice inspector general found that Sentinel had, overall, reduced the number of lost documents and made it easier to share information.

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San Francisco deputy choked sleeping hospital patient, arrested victim for instigating: cops
Michael R. Lewelling claimed he arrested a man while he was patrolling San Francisco General Hospital in November because the suspect hit him with his cane. But hospital video showed the 33-year-old deputy wake the sleeping victim and then assault him when he tried to walk away from the confrontation. The officer was arrested for perjury, filing a false police report and battery.
December 20, 2014, 1:55 PM Updated: Saturday, December 20, 2014, 3:21 PM

A San Francisco sheriff’s deputy choked a patient inside General Hospital, and wrote a fake police report to say the victim was the instigator, police said.

A San Francisco sheriff’s deputy choked a patient inside General Hospital, and wrote a fake police report to say the victim was the instigator, police said.
A San Francisco sheriff’s deputy choked a patient napping in a hospital waiting room, and then faked a report to say the man attacked him, police said.

San Francisco County Deputy Michael R. Lewelling was arrested Friday for the November incident. The 33-year-old officer was charged with four felonies, including perjury and filing a false police report, and misdemeanor battery.

On Nov. 3, Lewelling filed a police report claiming a man in San Francisco General’s waiting room hit him with a wooden cane while he was patrolling the hospital. Records showed he arrested the man.

But video from inside the emergency room waiting room showed the victim never raised his cane, officials said.

The tapes showed the man sleeping while waiting for a doctor’s appointment.

Lewelling woke him up, and when the victim tried to walk away, the deputy grabbed his shirt’s collar, threw him back in the chair and knocked his cane away, the video showed.

San Francisco deputy Michael R. Lewelling was charged with perjury and filing a false police report.

San Francisco deputy Michael R. Lewelling was charged with perjury and filing a false police report.
Then he grabbed the man’s throat and choked him, prosecutors said.

"The fact that a Sheriff's Deputy allegedly battered a patient at San Francisco General Hospital is unnerving," District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement.

He continued: "What's worse is that he's also alleged to have perjured himself on a police report, unforgivable conduct that

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Staten Island cop pawns off jewelry stolen from boyfriend's mom: authorities
Police Officer Stacey Staniland, 29, faces burglary, criminal possession of stolen property and petty larceny charges after taking necklaces and bracelets from an Egbert Ave., Port Richmond, home belonging to her boyfriend’s mother.



Friday, December 19, 2014

A Staten Island cop is accused of stealing jewelry from her boyfriend's mom and then pawning them off.

A Staten Island cop is accused of stealing jewelry from her boyfriend's mom and then pawning them off.
A Staten Island cop was arrested after she swiped, and then pawned, jewelry belonging to her boyfriend’s mother, authorities said Friday.

Police Officer Stacey Staniland, 29, faces burglary, criminal possession of stolen property and petty larceny charges after taking necklaces and bracelets from an Egbert Ave., Port Richmond, home belonging to her boyfriend’s mother.

Staniland entered the home and took the baubl

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Former Winston County deputy pleads guilty to federal charges of extorting woman to make meth



December 22, 2014 at 7:44 PM




BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- A former Winston County sheriff's deputy pleaded guilty in federal court to using his authority to extort a woman into manufacturing methamphetamine. His charges also allege he made her cook meth in a home with a child
Grady Keith Concord, 42, of Lynn entered his guilty pleas before U.S. District

I interviewed Serpico the NYPD cop who was shot in the face
after he exposed NYPD officers dealing heroin and cocaine in NY City

Call NY Mayor DiBlasio and tell him to watch the movie Serpico

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also see

Serpico: Incidents like Eric Garner's death drive wedge between police and society
Cowardly cops living by the 'shoot first, ask questions later' mantra put the good guys in a bad light and threaten the public's right to justice.
BY FRANK SERPICO SPECIAL TO THE NEWS Friday,


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December 5, 2014,
Cowardly cops 'don't belong in the uniform', according to retired NYPD Officer Frank Serpico.
Was I surprised by the Staten Island grand jury? Of course not. When was the last time a police officer was indicted?

This is the use of excessive force for no apparent reason on a guy who is selling loosie cigarettes; what is the threat to your well-being? If a police officer's life is in danger, he has every right to use every force in his means to defend himself.

In the old days, they used to put a gun or a knife on somebody after a shooting. Now they don't even bother.

But today, we have cops crying wolf all the time. They testify "I was in fear of my life," the grand jury buys it, the DA winks and nods, and there's no indictment.

I remember a guy I worked with back in the 81st Precinct, an ex-Marine named Murphy. He would not turn out for roll call until his shoes were spit-shined, and his uniform was creased.

One night, he was called to a family dispute. There was a man waiting behind the door, and he came out with a butcher knife and slashed Murphy's face.

Murphy could have emptied his gun in him. Instead, he disarmed the man and put him in cuffs. What's happening today in the performance of some officers can only be described as sheer cowardice. They don't belong in the uniform, and they shouldn't have weapons — whether they're cops or not.





I hear cops saying all the time — and they're proud of it — "shoot first, ask questions later."

They say, "It's my job to get home safe." Yes, but not at the cost of a human being who never posed a threat to you in the first place.

I called for, way back when before the Knapp Commission, for an independent investigative body. When I was testifying about police corruption, I saw very clearly how the DA can lead the grand jury in any direction they so desire.



Why would a kid in the inner city call a cop? When I was growing up, my mother would say "Any problem, call a cop." He would show up and assess the problem, and you wouldn't become the victim.

I want to be clear. I'm not talking about all police. There are plenty of good police, and I hear from them on a daily basis.


But the police are becoming our enemy, and society is becoming the enemy of the police.

Somebody with clear, objective and impartial thinking needs to come to their senses and find a solution.

Corruption-busting former NYPD Detective Frank Serpico, whose exploits were made into a best-selling book and a movie with Al Pacino, retired from the force in 1972.

see link for full story

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LAPD investigates Michael Brown parody at retired cop's party
Michael Brown -- LAPD Launches Investigation Over Parody Song
The LAPD is conducting an investigation to determine if cops currently on the force attended a dinner at the Glendale Elks Lodge that featured a parody of "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," making fun of Michael Brown's death.



LAPD opens preliminary investigation after video emerges of Michael Brown parody song
The Los Angeles Police Department has launched a preliminary investigation into a video that has emerged of a song that plays on the shooting death of Michael Brown. It was sung at a party thrown by a retired LAPD officer.
Police confirmed to the Los Angeles Times the investigation into the video, on which can be heard a parody of "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" that refers to the Ferguson, Mo., 18-year-old and includes lines such as, "His brain was splatter on the floor."


AT 9:58 AM DECEMBER 24, 2014

The song was sung during a recent party hosted at the Glendale Elks Lodge by a retired LAPD officer, police said.

"I am aware of the video released via TMZ. Like many of you, I find it offensive & absurd. It does not reflect the values of the #LAPD," Chief Charlie Beck tweeted. "I have directed our Professional Standards Bureau to look into this & determine if any active department employees were involved."

Video of the party and singing was first sent to TMZ.

If investigators find that any current officers attended "and misconduct took place, a formal investigation will be opened,” said Jane Kim, a spokeswoman for the LAPD.

Some of the changed lyrics to the song released by Jim Croce in 1973 include:

"Michael Brown learned a lesson
about a messin’ with a bad … police man
And he’s, bad, bad Michael Brown
Baddest thug in the whole darn town
Badder than an ol' King Kong
Meaner than a junkyard dog
Two men took to fightin’
And Michael punched in through the door
and Michael looked like some old Swiss cheese
His brain was splatter on the floor."

The preliminary investigation will begin as soon as Tuesday, police said.

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WEEKEND EDITION DECEMBER 26-28, 2014

"Broken Windows" Policing and the Violation of Civil Liberties
Is Zero-Tolerance Policing Worth Chokehold Deaths?
by ROBERT WILBUR and MARTHA ROSENBERG
Many in the U.S. were horrified at the death of Eric Garner, a 300-plus pound, asthmatic, diabetic African-American man with sleep apnea and six children last summer. Garner was arrested for selling loose cigarettes on a Staten Island street and when he resisted being handcuffed, an arresting officer applied a chokehold. Though the maneuver is theoretically forbidden in the police manual of procedure, it brought Garner to the pavement, whereupon other police piled in, compressing his chest. A bystander filmed the whole episode on a cell phone and Garner can be heard crying “I can’t breathe” eleven times. He died shortly thereafter at Richmond University Medical Center.

The Chief Medical Examiner’s Office in New York City, in a signal act of courage because the office must deal with the police constantly, declared the death a “homicide.” Garner, 43, was killed by “the compression of his chest and prone positioning during physical restraint by police,” said medical examiner spokeswoman Julie Bolcer.

Then, earlier this month, a grand jury decided to not indict the police officer who killed Garner, igniting tempers and linking Garner’s death to that of Michael Brown’s. Since the two deaths and grand jury acquittals, the issues of abusive police tactics and the use of military style weapons by police forces have been forced on the national stage.

When the chockhold death occurred, Mayor De Blasio postponed a vacation to conduct some damage control over the disturbing incident. Meanwhile, Patrick Lynch, the president of the Patrolman’s Benevolent Association, dismissed the medical examiner’s report as “political” and commented on the video that, “sometimes force is necessary, but it’s never pretty to watch.”

Heavy policing for minor crimes as selling cigarettes began in the late 1980s after the Central Park jogger case. While New Yorkers, like any city dwellers, always had a fear of crime, those fears reached a crucible in 1989 when a young woman stockbroker jogging in Central Park was assaulted, raped and left for dead. The woman, later identified as Trisha Meili, had been a vice president at the investment banking firm Salomon Brothers. Neurosurgeons at Metropolitan Hospital were able to restore her cognitive functions after the attack but her acuity with the financial markets and ability to be a stockbroker were forever lost.

At about the same time that Meili was attacked, some 30 teenage ruffians were tearing through the park on a night of “wilding”–beating joggers and bicyclists, smashing car windows along Central Park West, and in general wreaking havoc on anyone with the misfortune to cross their path. “Wilding” was a term to become a new part of the American lexicon.

Five of the wilders were seized by the police and, not surprisingly in light of the climate of fear, charged with the attack on Trisha Meili. Years later, after the five had served full prison terms as adults, it would turn out that they were framed by the police and the district attorney’s office and a $41 million settlement is now underway.

Even with the wilders behind bars, fear of violent crime ate away at New Yorkers who demanded more Draconian policing measures. Such measures arrived in 1992 with New York’s new mayor David Dinkins, a gentle, soft-spoken African-American man and ex-Marine and his no-nonsense police commissioner, Raymond Kelly. Dinkins’ and Kelly’s solution: breed respect for the law by enforcing all the laws on the books, no matter how seemingly trivial, such as smoking marijuana in public, petty drug dealing or even jumping a subway turnstile. “Squeegee men” were even targeted.

Such letter-of-the-law police work is also called “zero-tolerance” policing and is based on the “broken windows” theory of crime which postulates that crime flourishes when apathy for enforcement of minor laws is perceived. For example, when an abandoned automobile with no license plates and its hood up was left in a Bronx neighborhood, its radiator and battery were taken in a short period of time and windows smashed and upholstery ripped, reported Philip Zimbardo, a Stanford psychologist, in 1969.

Dinkins and Kelly rarely get credit– or blame–for turning New York City into a laboratory for heavy-handed policing based on the broken windows theory because crime did not begin to decline before the duo was ousted by former United States Attorney Rudolph Giuliani and his own “Top Cop,” William Bratton. Within two years Giuliani and Bratton were competing for the title of New York City’s violent crime reducer, though the decline in crime likely began under the Dinkins administration. Mayor Giuliani won the title over Police Commissioner Bratton and went on to build a reputation as the man who cleaned up New York City. After his stint as mayor, Giuliani was enlisted by Mexico City in 2003 to enact similar reductions in crime, especially in tourist zones. The venture was not successful. Meanwhile, the current mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, re-inducted William Bratton as police commissioner earlier this year.

Crime did decline under Giuliani and Bratton in the 1990s but was there really a cause-and-effect relationship between the decrement and “zero-tolerance” policing? To get some answers we spoke with David Harris, Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh, who has studied zero-tolerance policing in depth and is considered an expert.

Surprisingly, Professor Harris told us the progressive decline in violent crime, which continues to this day, is an inexplicable nationwide trend that is seen equally in cities that practice zero-tolerance and those that do not. Professor Harris deemed zero-tolerance policing “harsh” and “unyielding” and devoid of any deterrent effect. Indeed, Professor Harris finds it counterproductive because it breeds fear and hatred of the police, crowds jails, and deflects police manpower from pursuing serious crime. Professor Harris describes the apparent success of zero-tolerance as an artifact of the nationwide decline in all crimes. Zero-tolerance takes on a life of its own and leads to episodes like the Garner homicide or the ignominious epidemic of “stop and frisk” encounters, Professor Harris told us.

Though hailed as New York City’s new “liberal” mayor, Bill de Blasio seems a fan of zero-tolerance policing, underscored by his bringing back the controversial William Bratton as police commissioner. While the fate of Eric Garner might be the first “success” of their commitment to zero-tolerance, the murders of officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos suggest that police/citizen relations may be the defining issue of Bill de Blasio’s administration.

We also spoke with Chauniqua Young, a staff attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights. Ms. Young agreed that zero-tolerance leads to abuses like stop and frisk. Young was a member of the CCR legal team that won at least a partial victory in Federal District Court, where Judge Shira Scheindlin set limits on stop and frisk by New York City police. Law enforcement officers may still stop someone and frisk him if they have a “reasonable suspicion” that the person is armed. When running for mayor, de Blasio made improper stop and frisk practices a pillar of his campaign and promised to drop an appeal of Scheindlin’s ruling filed by the Bloomberg administration.

Chauniqua Young has harsh words for zero-tolerance and stop and frisk laws in which volumes of people, often people of color, are targeted and says it is a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. She believes that police are not properly disciplined to use their authority with restraint and she emphasized the indignity and racist nature of such police actions, an issue highlighted by August’s unrest in Ferguson, MO. Like Professor Harris, Young believes that zero-tolerance policing alienates innocent people from the police.

Next we spoke with Terry Kupers, a forensic psychiatrist on the faculty of the Wright Institute in Berkeley who has spoken out against prison abuses including solitary confinement. “Being busted [by law enforcement officers] can be a severe trauma with long-lasting consequences,” Dr. Kupers told us. In addition to racial inequalities, zero-tolerance puts homeless people and people suffering from a mental illness in jeopardy of trauma when they are arrested and/or incarcerated, he said.

While an arrest is a negative reinforcement which is capable of changing behavior, most psychologists regard positive reinforcement [reward] as a better way to change behavior than punishment. And, says Dr. Kupers, the negative reinforcement of arrest and incarceration is dwarfed by the harmful social effect of putting more people in jail or prisons. On an individual basis, deleterious conditions in prison and jail such as crowding, lack of medical and mental health care and solitary detention simply increase the likelihood of offenders using drugs, committing more crimes and being re-arrested when they are released, warns Dr. Kupers.

Still, zero-tolerance measures are in wide use. In New York City alone, an astonishing 700,000 people were stopped and frisked in 2011. What kind of effect does such wide net policing have on lowering crime we asked Professor Harris. “Marginal,” he told us.

Clearly, if violent crime is dropping in the U.S. anyway and zero-tolerance policing causes civil liberty abuses like the death of Eric Garner, the harsh mode of law enforcement needs a closer look.

Emails and phone messages to former Mayor Dinkins, Commissioner Bratton and Mayor de Blasio for comments on this article were not acknowledged. However, an assistant to David Dinkins, who now a professor at Columbia University, told us in an email that the former mayor has made it a policy to refrain from criticizing other public figures past and present.

Robert Wilbur is a New York City-based writer who writes about forensic psychiatry, clinical psychopharmacology, animal rights and other topics.

Martha Rosenberg is an investigative reporter. She is author of the Random House-distributed Born With A Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp The Public Health (Prometheus) and a frequent contributer to CounterPunch.

FBI refuses to release name of shooter just like
they refused to fire this FBI perp

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FBI Agent Could Face Charges For Shooting Dog
December 29, 2014 11:14 PM




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An FBI agent could face charges after he used his service weapon to shoot and kill a large dog that went after his pet—and it all happened right in front of a four-year-old child.
Meghan McCorkell has more from the neighborhood.
Police are investigating an incident in Glen Burnie that left a Great Dane dead.
It’s a peaceful path where people often walk their dogs—but Friday morning, that peace was disrupted by gunfire.
“It’s quite sad to know in our neighborhood that things like this happen,” said one neighbor.

Investigators say a grandmother and her four-year-old grandson were walking a Great Dane when she lost control of the dog and it broke free. Police say the 180-pound dog went after a 15-pound schnauzer that was being walked by its owner, an FBI agent.
“He tried to separate the dogs physically. He was unable to and he ultimately had to use his service weapon to shoot the Great Dane,” said Lt. TJ Smith, Anne Arundel County police.
Investigators say the incident happened as the two dogs were attempting to cross a narrow footbridge.
Neighbor Florine Kuhn says the gunfire has the neighborhood on edge.
“Just contemplating the fact that someone just pulled a gun and decided that was the best way to solve the matter,” she said.
Police officials say the Great Dane had the smaller dog in its mouth when the agent fired. The schnauzer was treated at an animal hospital for injuries.
“It’s a traumatic experience for everybody involved, as well, because nobody wants to shoot a dog,” Smith said.
The FBI agent has not been identified.
Anne Arundel County police and the state’s attorney are now investigating. FBI officials say they are also looking into the case since the agent used his service weapon.
Police say there were no previous reports about aggressive behavior from the Great Dane.

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FBI WON’T STOP BLAMING NORTH KOREA FOR SONY HACK -- DESPITE NEW EVIDENCE


12.30.14


In spite of mounting evidence that the North Korean regime may not have been wholly responsible for a brazen cyberassault against Sony—and possibly wasn’t involved at all—the FBI is doubling down on its theory that the Hermit Kingdom solely bears the blame.

“We think it’s them,” referring to the North Koreans, an FBI spokesperson told The Daily Beast when asked to respond to reports from private investigators that other culprits were responsible. The latest evidence, from the cyberanalysis firm the Norse Corp., suggests that a group of six individuals, including at least one disgruntled ex-Sony employee, is behind the assault, which

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lead does not discriminate


also see


Ku Klux Klan infiltrated Florida police department (+video ...
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Jul 21, 2014 - The central Florida town of Fruitland Park, has been dealing with alleged KKK ties and other problems in the police ranks since 2010. Florida ...
KKK Raising Money for Police Officer Who Shot African-American ...
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Aug 13, 2014 - “We are setting up a reward/fund for the police officer who shot this thug,” the Klan group said in an email. “He is



The Greensboro massacre occurred on November 3, 1979 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. Five protest marchers were shot and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party at a rally organized by communists intended to demonstrate radical, even violent, opposition to the Klan.[1] The "Death to the Klan March" and protest was the culmination of attempts by the Communist Workers' Party to organize mostly black industrial workers in the area.[2]

The marchers killed were: Sandi Smith,[3] a nurse and civil rights activist; Dr. James Waller,[4] president of a local textile workers union who ceased medical practice to organize workers; Bill Sampson,[5] a graduate of the Harvard Divinity School; Cesar Cauce,[6] a Cuban immigrant who graduated magna cum laude from Duke University; and Dr. Michael Nathan,[7] chief of pediatrics at Lincoln Community Health Center in Durham, North Carolina, a clinic that helped children from low-income families.

The two criminal trials against the Klansmen and the Nazi Party members led to all defendants being acquitted by all-white juries. However, a 1985 civil rights suit led by the Christic Institute and their lead attorneys, Lewis Pitts and Daniel Sheehan, together with People's Law Office attorney G. Flint Taylor and Durham, North Carolina, attorney Carolyn MacAllister, resulted in one of the few decisions in a Southern court to date against law enforcement officials accused of collusion with Klan violence.[8] In addition, the survivors won a $350,000 judgment against the city, the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party for violating the civil rights of the demonstrators. However, only one plaintiff, Marty Nathan, received her payment.[9]

Contents
Rally
Role of the police
Aftermath
Legal proceedings
Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission
References
Further reading
External links
RallyEdit

Hostility between the groups flared in July 1979, when protesters in China Grove, North Carolina disrupted a screening of The Birth of a Nation, a 1915 cinematographic portrayal of the formation of the Ku Klux Klan. Taunts and inflammatory rhetoric were exchanged during the ensuing months. On November 3, 1979, a rally and march of industrial workers and Communists was planned in Greensboro against the Ku Klux Klan. The "Death to the Klan March" was to begin in a predominantly black housing project called Morningside Homes. Flyers distributed by the Communist Workers' Party for the event "called for radical, even violent opposition to the Klan".[1] One flier stated that the Klan “should be physically beaten and chased out of town. This is the only language they understand. Armed self-defense is the only defense."[1] Communist organizers publicly challenged the Klan to present themselves and "face the wrath of the people".[10] During the rally, a caravan of cars containing Klansmen and members of the American Nazi Party drove by the housing projects where the Communists and other anti-Klan activists were congregating. Several marchers began to attack the Klansmen's cars with picket sticks or by throwing rocks. They were also armed with handguns, which they fired during the conflict.[1] According to white supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller, the first shots were fired from a handgun by an anti-Klan demonstrator.[11] It is not entirely clear who fired the first shot,[1] although witnesses reported Klansman Mark Sherer did so, into the air.[12] Klansmen and Nazis fired with shotguns, rifles and pistols. Cauce, Waller, and Sampson were killed at the scene, Smith was shot in the forehead when she peeked from her hiding place, and eleven others were wounded. One of them, Dr. Michael Nathan, later died from his wounds at a hospital.[11] Most of the confrontation was filmed by four local news camera crews.

Role of the police
Police would normally have been present at such a rally to prevent outbreaks of violence, but few officers were present; the assailants were therefore able to escape with relative ease. A police photographer and a detective did follow the Klan and neo-Nazi caravan to the site, but did not attempt to intervene. Edward Dawson, a Klansman-turned police informant,[2] was in the lead car of the caravan.[11] Two days prior to the march, one of the Klansmen went to the police station and obtained a map of the march and the rally.[10] Bernard Butkovich, an undercover agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), later testified that he was aware that Klansmen and members of the American Nazi Party unit he had infiltrated would confront the demonstrators. In an earlier testimony, the neo-Nazis claimed Butkovich encouraged them to carry firearms to the demonstration.[13]

AftermathEdit

Legal proceedings

March of concerned citizens after the Greensboro Massacre. Photo from the Christic Institute archives.
Forty Klansmen and neo-Nazis, and several Communist marchers were involved in the shootings; sixteen Klansmen and Nazis were arrested and the six best cases were brought to trial first.[2] Five Klansmen were charged with murder: David Wayne Matthews,[14] Jerry Paul Smith,[15] Jack Wilson Fowler,[16] Harold Dean Flowers,[17] and Billy Joe Franklin.[18] During the second trial nine men were charged; in addition to David Wayne Matthews, Jerry Paul Smith, Jack Wilson Fowler, six other men, Virgil Lee Griffin,[19] Eddie Dawson,[20] Roland Wayne Wood,[21] Roy Clinton Toney,[22] Coleman Blair Pridmore,[23] and Rayford Milano Caudle[24] were charged with other crimes associated with the event. The two criminal trials resulted in the acquittal of the defendants by all-white juries[25] primarily because no member of the Communist Worker's Party would testify.

However, a 1985 civil lawsuit led by the Christic Institute and their lead attorney Daniel Sheehan won a verdict in federal civil court against five of the assailants and two police officers. The verdict is one of the few decisions in a Southern court to date against law enforcement officials accused of collusion with Klan violence.[26] The survivors won a $350,000 judgment against the city, the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party for violating the civil rights of the demonstrators.[27] However only one plaintiff, Marty Nathan, received his payment.[9]

Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission
In 2005, a private organization, calling itself the "Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission", declared that it would take public testimony and examine the causes and consequences of the massacre. The private group was named in an attempt to resemble or pay homage to official Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, such as that of post-apartheid South Africa.[28] The group included members of the local community, as well as a "commissioner" from the New York based Fellowship of Reconciliation, historically known for their early support of Martin Luther King Jr. during the Montgomery bus boycott. The group's efforts were not endorsed by local government officials. The Greensboro City Council, led by then-mayor Keith Holliday, voted 6 to 3 against endorsing the work of the group, with the three votes in favor of it cast by the City Council's African American members.[29] The mayor at the time of the massacre, Jim Melvin, also rejected the private commission.

The "commission" stated that they believed Klan members went to the rally intending to provoke a violent confrontation, and that they fired on demonstrators. In addition, the private commission stated that the violent rhetoric of the Communist Workers Party and the Klan contributed in varying degrees to the violence, and that the protesters had not fully secured the community support of the Morningside Homes residents, many of whom did not approve of the protest because of its potential for violent confrontation.[30]

The group also heard reports that the Greensboro Police Department had infiltrated the Klan and, through a paid informant, knew of the white supremacists’ plans and the strong potential for violence.[31] The informant had formerly been on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's payroll but had maintained contact with his agent supervisor. Consequently, the FBI was also aware of the impending armed confrontation.[32]

The group further reported that some activists in the crowd fired back after they were attacked.[12] Filmmaker Adam Zucker's 2007 documentary, Greensboro: Closer to the Truth, examines the work of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

ReferencesEdit

"The Greensboro Massacre". University of North Carolina - Greensboro. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
Mark Hand (November 18, 2004). "The Greensboro Massacre". Press Action. Retrieved 2007-09-27.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Sandra Neely Smith. Library.uncg.edu. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: James Michael Waller, Dr. Library.uncg.edu. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: William Evan Sampson. Library.uncg.edu. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Cesar Cauce. Library.uncg.edu. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Michael Ronald Nathan, Dr. Library.uncg.edu. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
"Greensboro Massacre." Christic Institute Archives. The Romero Institute, n.d. Web. 23 Aug. 2013
Civil Rights Greensboro: Greensboro Massacre. Library.uncg.edu. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
"Chronology of the November 3, 1979 Greensboro Massacre and its Aftermath". The Prism. Retrieved 2007-09-27.
F. Glenn Miller (March 6, 2005). "A White Man Speaks Out". Retrieved 2010-08-25.
"Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission Final Report". Retrieved 2011-04-02.
"Agent Tells of '79 Threats by Klan and Nazis". The New York Times. May 12, 1985. section 1, page 26, column 1. Retrieved 2007-09-27.
Civil Rights Greensboro: David Wayne Matthews. Library.uncg.edu (November 3, 1979). Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Jerry Paul Smith. Library.uncg.edu (November 3, 1979). Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Jack Wilson Fowler. Library.uncg.edu (November 3, 1979). Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Harold Dean Flowers. Library.uncg.edu (November 3, 1979). Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Billy Joe Franklin. Library.uncg.edu (November 3, 1979). Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Virgil Lee Griffin, Sr. Library.uncg.edu (November 3, 1979). Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Edward Dawson. Library.uncg.edu. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Roland Wayne Wood. Library.uncg.edu (November 3, 1979). Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Roy Clinton Toney. Library.uncg.edu (November 3, 1979). Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Coleman Blair Pridmore. Library.uncg.edu (November 3, 1979). Retrieved November 20, 2011.
Civil Rights Greensboro: Rayford Milano Caudle. Library.uncg.edu (November 3, 1979). Retrieved November 20, 2011.
"Acquittal in Greensboro". New York Times. April 18, 1984. Retrieved 2009-08-15.
"Greensboro Massacre." Christic Institute Archives. The Romero Institute, n.d. Web. 23 Aug. 2013.
Wright, Michael (June 9, 1985). "Civil Convictions In Greensboro". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-08-15.
The Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission. "What is Truth and Reconciliation?". Archived from the original on 11 Mar 2012. Retrieved 8 Dec 2012. The most famous is the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission... one of the chief architects of South Africa's truth commission founded the International Center for Transitional Justice in 2001 to advise other nations employing the process.
Hansen, Toran (2007). "Can Truth Commissions be Effective in the United States? An Analysis of the Effectiveness of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Greensboro, North Carolina". University of Minnesota School of Social Work. Retrieved November 9, 2012.
"Intelligence gathering and planning for the anti-Klan campaign".
"Police Internal Affairs investigation: Making the facts known?".
Bermanzohn, Sally Avery (Winter 2007). "A Massacre Survivor Reflects on the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission". Radical History Review (97): 103. Retrieved 2009-05-31. In sum, the GPD instigated and facilitated the attack with the knowledge of federal agents in the FBI and the ATF
Further readingEdit

Articles
Bacigal, Ronald J., and Margaret Ivey Bacigal. "When Racists and Radicals Meet." Emory Law Journal 38 (Fall 1989).
Bryant, Pat. "Justice Vs. the Movement." Radical America 14, no. 6 (1980).
Civil Rights Greensboro: The articles of Charles Babington
Eastland, Terry. "The Communists and the Klan." Commentary 69, no. 5 (1980).
Institute for Southern Studies. "The Third of November." Southern Exposure 9, no. 3 (1981).
Parenti, Michael, and Carolyn Kazdin. "The Untold Story of the Greensboro Massacre." Monthly Review 33, no. 6 (1981).
Ray O. Light Group. "'Left' Opportunism and the Rise of Reaction: The Lessons of the Greensboro Massacre." Toward Victorious Afro-American National Liberation: A Collection of Pamphlets, Leaflets and Essays Which Dealt In a Timely Way With the Concrete Ongoing Struggle for Black Liberation Over the Past Decade and More pp. 249–260. Ray O. Light Publications: Bronx NY, 1982.
Books
Bermanzohn, Sally Avery. Through Survivors' Eyes: From the Sixties to the Greensboro Massacre. 400 pages, 57 illustrations, index. Vanderbilt University Press; 1st edition (September 1, 2003). ISBN 0-8265-1439-1.
Waller, Signe. Love And Revolution: A Political Memoir: People’s History Of The Greensboro Massacre, Its Setting And Aftermath. London & New York: Rowman & Littlefield. 2002. ISBN 0-7425-1365-3.
Wheaton, Elizabeth. Codename GREENKIL: The 1979 Greensboro Killings. 328 pages. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987. ISBN 0-8203-0935-4.
Video
"Lawbreakers: The Greensboro Massacre" The History Channel. Lawbreakers Series. Video Cassette. 46 minutes. Color. 2000. Broadcast October 13, 2004.
Greensboro's Child. Directed by Andy Burton Coon. Independent. 2002. 6:02 minute excerpt on YouTube of eyewitness interviews. Retrieved May 22, 2006.
2:46 video footage of the initial demonstration and drive-by on YouTube – Footage omits final 5:09 minutes of tape. Retrieved May 23, 2006.
YouTube footage of the actual shootings
External linksEdit

Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The 500+ page Final Report of the Commission, which examines the context, causes, sequence and consequences of Nov 3, 1979, is available on this site in .pdf form.
Articles and news reports
"88 Seconds in Greensboro": Transcript. PBS Frontline. Reported by James Reston, Jr. Directed by William Cran. Original Airdate: January 24, 1983.
Anniversary news reports
Greensboro Set To Mark Deadly Anniversary: Five Killed, 11 Injured In 'Greensboro Massacre' by Scott Mason and Kamal Wallace. WRAL. Posted: 11:25 am EST November 3, 2003. Retrieved April 5, 2005.
Remembering the 1979 Greensboro Massacre 25 years later – Broadcast by Democracy Now! on November 18, 2004.
Seeking Closure on 'Greensboro Massacre' Reconciliation Panel Convenes in N.C. to Address '79 Attack by Nazi Party, Klan by Darryl Fears, Washington Post. Sunday, March 6, 2005; Page A03. Retrieved April 17, 2005.

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Former Acting HHS Cyber Security Director Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Engaging in Child Pornography Enterprise
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Five Others Previously Sentenced to Substantial Prison Terms for Participation in the Same Tor-Network-Based Child Pornography Website
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 5, 2015. The former acting director of cyber security at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison today for engaging in a child exploitation enterprise and related charges in connection with his membership in a Tor-network-based child pornography websit

hrough the website, DeFoggi accessed child pornography, solicited child pornography from other members, and exchanged private messages with other members in which he expressed an interest in the violent rape and murder of children. DeFoggi suggested meeting one member in person to fulfill their mutual fantasies to violently rape and murder children.

DeFoggi was the sixth individual to be convicted as part of an ongoing investigation targeting three Tor-network-based child pornography websites. The websites were run by a single administrator, Aaron McGrath, who was previously convicted in the District of Nebraska of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise in connection with his administration of the websites. On Jan. 31, 2014, McGrath was sentenced to 20 years in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge Joseph F. Bataillon.

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IN TOO DEEP
AN INFORMANT, A MISSING AMERICAN, AND JUAREZ’S HOUSE OF DEATH: INSIDE THE 12-YEAR COLD CASE OF DAVID CASTRO
BY BILL CONROY01.06.15
David Castro is a statistic. He has been disappeared, like some 30,000 other victims of the drug war in Mexico whose fates are unknown—some because they were involved in the narco business, some for far more innocent reasons—as the targets of extortion, or political oppression, or casualties of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

In Castro’s case, it’s pretty clear he got in too deep. He was a truck driver and U.S. citizen living in El Paso, Texas, who found himself sideways on a valuable drug load—just one of the thousands of such cargos moved each year from Juarez, Mexico, into the United States. As a result, Castro owed money to the wrong people. It finally caught up with him.


According to those familiar with the case, including federal agents, family, and a U.S. government informant, Castro was abducted in Juarez in late September 2002. He was then apparently murdered, after the money he owed a player working for a cell of a major Juarez drug organization was not delivered in time. His body has not been found.

Between October 2002 and June 2014, at least 827 U.S. citizens were the victims of homicides in Mexico, including drug-related murders and executions, according to a report prepared by the U.S. Department of State.

Castro’s case, however, is not counted among those murders, because the figures reflect only deaths actually reported to the State Department. Absent a body, no one can say with absolute certainty whether Castro is dead, even if all signs point in that direction.

But even though he has been disappeared, Castro is not forgotten. His estranged wife and his girlfriend, pregnant with Castro’s child when he was kidnapped, are now raising hard questions about the U.S. government’s role in Castro’s cold case and seeking closure to a more than 12-year-old mystery that has wreaked havoc on their lives.


“My son cries and wants to know his dad,” said Yvonne Lozoya, who was living with Castro at the time of his abduction and is raising their now 12-year-old son. “There’s no closure or grave to visit.”

One former federal agent who spoke with The Daily Beast on background said Castro’s case does deserve more attention, but added a harsh assessment: “I doubt anyone will care,” given his alleged involvement in the drug business.

Grace Castro, David’s wife of a dozen years before they separated in 2000, said after she and her husband parted ways, she believes he did get sucked into the drug business and eventually found himself in over his head.

“Once he knew he was in that far,” she said, sobbing, “he stopped talking to us and seeing our [three] kids. … We still don’t have answers on what really happened. What am I supposed to tell our kids? They deserve to know.”

One thing is clear about Castro’s case, though. At the center of his disappearance in Mexico is a U.S. government informant named Guillermo Ramirez Peyro—a former Mexican highway cop who, in 2002 at the time of Castro’s kidnapping in Juarez, was working for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement while also serving as a key lieutenant in a ruthless cell connected to the Juarez cartel (also known at the time as the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Organization).

In a statement Ramirez Peyro, also known by the nickname Lalo, provided to the Mexican government in 2004 (and during subsequent interviews conducted with him for this report), he reveals his insight into Castro’s fate on the Mexican side of the border—a fate closely linked to Lalo’s role as an ICE informant. Yvonne Lozoya, Castro’s former girlfriend, has filled in the pieces on the U.S. side of the border as she experienced them. Castro’s story, as they each tell it, is a cautionary tale of the harsh realities of the drug war that have plagued the border for more than a decade.

Lozoya says she dropped off Castro, then 36, at a used-car lot in El Paso, Texas, the day he made his fateful trip across the border to Juarez. Castro hooked up at the car lot with Lalo. Together, they crossed over the International Bridges on foot into Juarez to conduct some business. Lozoya says the story she got from her boyfriend that day was that he was going to pick up a Harley-Davidson motorcycle in Juarez and drive it back across the bridge to El Paso that same day.

Lalo, though, concedes there was more to the trip. He also was working to recruit Castro as a driver for a drug load. Part of Lalo’s job for the Juarez cartel cell was to coordinate marijuana shipments into the United States, and for that he needed drivers, Lalo said in an interview.

A former federal agent familiar with Lalo’s informant work explained that the drivers he recruited served as “buffers” that would allow law enforcers to make arrests without compromising the informant.

“Once a load is turned over to a driver, we could take the driver down [make an arrest] on the U.S. side of the border,” the agent explained.

It was very early in the recruiting process, though, and what happened next assured Castro would never wind up as a U.S. arrest statisti

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Judge rejects lawsuit from Colombo mobster Scott Fappiano, who claimed NYPD framed him for rape
Fappiano spent more than 21 years for a rape he didn’t commit, and argued that detectives tampered with witnesses to nail him. But a judge called his assertion ‘speculation’ and said there was no evidence of a conspiracy to frame him for the brutal attack of a cop’s wife. His lawyer blasted the ruling and said they will appeal.



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Colombo associate Scott Fappiano claimed police tried to frame him for a rape, but a judge said there was too little evidence to support his argument.

Colombo associate Scott Fappiano claimed police tried to frame him for a rape, but a judge said there was too little evidence to support his argument.
In a huge win for the city, a Brooklyn judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a mobster who was jailed more than 21 years for a rape he did not commit.

Reputed Colombo associate Scott Fappiano claimed he was railroaded by NYPD detectives investigating the brutal rape of a cop's wife in 1983.

With the help of the Innocence Project, Fappiano was exonerated by DNA testing and sprung from prison in 2006.

He received a $2 million settlement from the state in a separate lawsuit alleging wrongfu

This Map Shows You Just How Many Prisoners Are In Each US State
Four of the states in the US have a higher prison population per 100,000 than any nation abroad.
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Baltimore PD Hides Its Stingray Usage Under A Pen Register Order; Argues There's Really No Difference Between The Two
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Another case involving Stingray devices has made its way into the federal court system, prompting the ACLU to join the battle on behalf of the defendant. A murder-for-hire sting conducted by the Baltimore police and the FBI involved the use of a Stingray device, but the paperwork used to justify the

Former Rep. Michael Grimm spotted at North Shore bar; first appearance since resigning
Former Rep. Michael Grimm was spotted playing pool at 120 Bay Cafe on Friday night

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Well-known market manipulator Anthony Elgindy is dead

Spent years in prison for activities

By Don Bauder, July 25, 2015

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Anthony Elgindy, 48, who was famous as a short-seller who claimed to be reforming the penny stock market, is dead. He died Thursday, July 23, although the county medical examiner and the sheriff's office have no record of his death, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which was deeply involved in his activities, says it would not know of such a death.

I got several emails telling me of his death. I called his cell number. A brother answered and refused to talk, and hung up after I asked him simply to confirm the death.

Elgindy's son, Adam Elgindy, says on his Facebook page, "My dad, Anthony Elgindy, passed away yesterday. He was under so much stress and panic and he took his own life." Several of Adam Elgindy's friends sent him condolences such as "I'm sorry man, "if you need anything at all hit me up man," and "I'm praying god watches over you."

Condolences on Twitter were also sent to Elgindy's brother.

Elgindy, whose questionable market activities were chronicled in the Union-Tribune, San Diego Reader, New York Times, and on local and national TV, began his career working for Melvin Lloyd Richards, a notorious penny stock tout who was in jail several times, but the last I heard was out.

The final time I talked with Elgindy was in January of last year. He admitted to being a "scumbag" while he worked for Richards (that is, selling worthless stocks to naive people), but then repeated what he claimed all along: that he went into the business of reforming the market by shorting stocks (betting they would drop) because they were overvalued, overhyped, or fraudulent, or all three.

Elgindy had an online newsletter, AnthonyPacific.com, which speculators paid a bundle to receive. In the newsletter, he would highlight the stocks he was shorting. Elgindy became rich, buying a luxurious Encinitas home and owning several vintage automobiles.

Elgindy gave testimony that helped the FBI get the goods on Richards, who went to jail in San Diego, Los Angeles, and New York, and perhaps other places. Elgindy claimed his life was in danger, and he was featured on a Barbara Walters TV show practicing at a gun range. The FBI lauded Elgindy's work on that case.

Then Elgindy really got into trouble. He was getting confidential information from an FBI agent, who would feed him the names and circumstances of companies that were under investigation. In January of 2005, Elgindy was found guilty in a Brooklyn court of racketeering and securities fraud. The FBI agent was convicted of similar crimes.

The federal government said Elgindy used the information to manipulate shares of companies, and to extort some of the firms to provide him shares if he wouldn't release

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One fall evening in 2012, Paula Corbin made the mistake of pulling into a Burger King parking lot to throw away some trash.

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How a Woman Fell in Love With a Convicted Serial Killer
This Is What a Death Row Wedding Looked like in 1996
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Courtesy Rosalie Bolin
What Life's Like Married to a Convicted Killer on Death Row

Aug 21, 2015, 5:20 PM


Rosalie Bolin says Oscar Ray Bolin is the love of her life, despite the fact that he is a convicted killer on death row.

"It's a love that I never experienced before," Rosalie recently told ABC News' "20/20."

Oscar Ray Bolin was convicted of the 1986 murders of three women, 25-year-old Natalie Blanche Holley, 26-

2014: Office of the Inspector General Calls for Review of FBI Agent's Cases

Rosalie found support from FBI special agent-turned-whistle blower Fred Whitehurst. For over 20 years, Whitehurst has been working to expose corruption at the FBI Crime Lab and one agent in particular, Michael Malone.

"Anything that Michael Malone touched, any evidence that he touch is not to be trusted," Whitehurst told "20/20." It can't be. The U.S. government agrees with that."

Malone, the former senior examiner of hair and fibers for the FBI, was in charge of the hair and fiber evidence sent to the FBI in all three of Oscar's murder trials.

He testified that he "was the agent in charge at the FBI lab of this particular case. I was finding a black wool, very dark black wool fiber that showed up in all three cases." He also linked Bolin by hair to the Collins case.

But in 2014, the Office of the Inspector General released a report that said, "Michael Malone repeatedly created scientifically unsupportable lab reports and provided false, misleading or inaccurate testimony at criminal trials."

The report went on to list Oscar's case among 52 others that should be reviewed.

"In my mind, Michael Malone is a serial killer with a lab coat," Rosalie said. "There have been potentially people who have been executed based upon evidence that Michael Malone handled. That's frightening."

Malone declined numerous requests from ABC News for comment on this report.

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FBI used Burning Man to field-test new surveillance equipment
Boing Boing-Sep 8, 2015
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Tucson police wrong to hide cell-tracking data, ACLU suit claims


September 15 2015
PHOENIX — Tucson police purposely hides its use of technology that allows it to track the cellphones of people — innocent or otherwise — the American Civil Liberties Union is claiming.

In new legal filings, Attorney Darrell Hill told the state Court of Appeals the city has admitted the equipment it has purchased allows it to collect personal data of people who are not subject to criminal investigations. Hill said that includes text messages, call history, location data and emails.

Hill said attorneys for the city admit to using that equipment without first getting a warrant “or any other form of judicial review.”

“In addition, as a matter of Tucson Police Department practice, any written reference to the use of the technology in TPD reports is purposely hidden,” the ACLU

Michael Grimm, disgraced Staten Island congressman, to begin prison sentence for filing false tax returns

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Tuesday, September 22, 2015,
Michael Grimm, 45, will surrender at the McKean Federal Correctional Institute in Pennsylvania to serve an eight-month sentence for filing false tax returns.
Michael Grimm, the ex-Marine, ex-FBI agent and disgraced congressman, Tuesday becomes inmate No. 83479-053 at a federal prison in western Pennsylvania.

Grimm, 45, will surrender at the McKean Federal Correctional Institute to serve an eight-month sentence for filing false tax returns.

He resigned his Staten Island seat after pleading guilty to the charges in Brooklyn Federal Court.

Grimm joins about 1,100 convicted felons at McKean. Actor Wesley Snipes served two years for tax evasion at the same facility.

McKean wasn't Grimm's first choice — his lawyers had requested the Fairton federal lockup in New Jersey because his mother and sister live closer to that jail and it would be easier for them to visit him. But U.S. Bureau of Prisons officials did not grant his wish.



The former U.S. congressman resigned his Staten Island seat after pleading guilty to the charges in Brooklyn Federal Court.
Grimm was originally scheduled to self-surrender 12 days ago, but Federal Judge Pamela Chen granted a reprieve so he could undergo "a surgical procedure ... (that) entails a brief healing period and a second appointment to have sutures