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Michael Jackson's FBI File
John Cook · 12/22/09 01:32PMNYC Evildoers Still Falling for FBI's Hezbollah Trick
Amdesi · 10/29/09 01:50AMObama's New Pot-Friendly Policy
Hunter Walker · 10/19/09 02:46AMThe Story Behind Walter Cronkite's Destroyed FBI File
John Cook · 10/13/09 05:00PMWhy Did the FBI Destroy Walter Cronkite's FBI File?
John Cook · 09/22/09 11:58AMDid This Congresswoman Have Lesbian Affair With a Turkish Spy?
Pareene · 09/21/09 05:02PMObama Creating New, Slightly More Cuddly Interrogation Team. (And Reporters Are Getting Examined, Too!)
Andrew Belonsky · 08/23/09 11:45PMFBI Agent Thinks the Green Party Is a Terrorist Group With Nukes
John Cook · 08/03/09 04:51PMEliot Spitzer Doesn't Need Vanity Fair's Help (But He's Getting It Anyway)
John Cook · 07/28/09 02:17PMNew York: Now Safer Than Ever
cityfile · 06/03/09 11:56AMJust a few weeks ago, the city was supposedly experiencing an unprecedented crime wave. Apparently the NYPD turned things around in no time, since newly released FBI stats show that New York has the lowest crime rate of the 25 largest cities in the country. Of the 261 cities with more than 100,000 residents, New York ranked 246th; violent crime dropped four percent last year and murders were down 21.1 percent. So, you know, enjoy not getting murdered when you go out this evening. [NYP]
New Orleans Reclaims Title of America's Murder Capital
The Cajun Boy · 06/02/09 11:26PMDanny Pang, California's Answer to Bernie Madoff, Arrested
Owen Thomas · 04/29/09 11:14AMBarack Obama Is So Cool He Can Even Make G-Men Faint
John Cook · 04/28/09 11:11AMTribune Didn't Get Blago Arrested Any Faster
Hamilton Nolan · 12/17/08 05:46PMA Bloodthirsty Public Finds the Villains We Want
Owen Thomas · 12/12/08 12:00PMFederal Probe Puts Further Damper on Art Basel
cityfile · 12/03/08 11:05AMSo there won't be so many wealthy bankers as usual at the Miami Art Basel this week. But people can at least expect to see lots of top execs and clients of the fair's sponsor, Swiss banking giant UBS, right? Sadly for already-despondent artists and dealers, it looks like a few of them may be well-advised to stay away, too: The FBI is reportedly heading down to Miami to mount a sting operation to ensnare a certain breed of tax-evader: Those for whom art collecting is a convenient method of surreptitiously moving vast sums of cash around, and if you have an anonymous Swiss bank account, even better!
Subway Terror Alert
Gabriel Snyder · 11/26/08 10:41AMIsraeli hacker in jail ten years after U.S. military break-in
Jackson West · 09/24/08 01:00AMEhud "The Analyzer" Tenenbaum, who became world-famous when he and a number of fellow Israeli and California teens successfully exploited a vulnerability in Sun Solaris to gain access to computers at Nasa, Andrews Air Force Base and the Department of Defense, is in jail. Earlier this month he was arrested in Montreal on suspicion of having helped defraud credit card companies of $1.8 million. Wired dug up a slickly produced, pretty entertaining video produced by the FBI a year after the intrusion.I happened to be in Tel Aviv when Tenenbaum turned himself in to Israeli authorities on the day he was set to report for compulsory military service — he was treated as something of a national hero, a symbol of Israel's technology prowess, with even then Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu praising him as "damn good." Tenenbaum ended up with probation and community service instead of jail time. So it wasn't with much surprise when I read Tenenbaum's mother calling the arrest a frame-up by the FBI. The truth? The prepaid credit card scam described is a classic modus operandi in Canadian tweaker circles, at least as described in Zero Day Threat. And Tenenbaum certainly had to chops to pull it off, with the cast of fellow suspects who've been released probably participating as mules to make transactions. So once again, I'm betting Canadian dollars to donuts from Tim Horton's on meth.
Anne Hathaway's Tainted Jewelry
Hamilton Nolan · 09/10/08 01:32PMThe Smoking Gun got hold of the FBI's list of jewelry that pixieish actress Anne Hathaway (referred to only as a "girlfriend" or "individual") had to surrender because her ex-boyfriend, holy swindler Raffaello Follieri, bought it for her with his fraudulent proceeds. He was very generous with other people's money! There are a dozen items on the list, which must be worth tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. Money is no object when investors are paying unknowingly! The full list, Rolexes and all: