A U.S. Navy officer with access to sensitive U.S. intelligence faces espionage charges over accusations he passed state secrets, possibly to China and Taiwan, a U.S. official told Reuters on Sunday.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, identified the suspect as Lieutenant Commander Edward Lin, who was born in Taiwan and later became a naturalized U.S. citizen, according a Navy profile article written about him in 2008.
“This is not a particularly good day for the department,” a sullen Bill Bratton said Thursday, as he dropped the hammer on four top commanders who are the targets of an escalating federal corruption probe.
The police commissioner stripped two of the men of their guns and badges and yanked the other two from their commands — a harsh penalty he followed up with a warning to the rest of his officers to keep their noses clean.
I read with great interest your editorial on government corruption. To really understand corruption in the government you must first understand the extent of corruption. It reminds me of a college 101 course that I was required to take as a freshman entitled “How to lie with statistics.” The course was less about numbers than just plain critical thinking.
According to the FBI, there has recently been a significant spike in email fraud, costing businesses billions in the last two years – with a significant portion of these funds landing in Hong Kong bank accounts. If your client is the victim of fraud, it is essential to act quickly to minimize losses and secure the best chance for recovery.
In what is commonly known as “CEO fraud,” criminals impersonate the Chief Executive Officer or another senior executive of a company, using spoof communications to initiate unauthorized international wire transfers. Fraudsters engaging in these types of fraud can be very sophisticated and often employ any means possible to put the misappropriated funds out of the reach of their victims.
Two nationwide organizations purporting to be cancer charities have entered an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission, all 50 states and the District of Columbia, concluding the largest joint enforcement action ever undertaken by the FTC and state charity regulators.
In its complaint filed in May 2015, the FTC alleged four nonprofits bilked more than $187 million from donors between 2008 and 2012. Cancer Fund of America Inc., and Cancer Support Services Inc., which were operated by James Reynolds, Sr., were responsible for more than $75 million of that amount. The charities claimed to raise money for people with cancer but actually spent donated funds on lavish vacations and expensive cars, among other things, according to the FTC.
Scientists and statisticians caution against looking at a small cluster of events and deriving a trend. A cluster of events involving military and civilian agency corruption can make one wonder, is the military becoming more corrupt? Is the federal government becoming more corrupt?
The bigger picture says no. Let’s hope not. To a nation, corruption is a virulent form of cancer.
Once it gets to a certain point, there’s no return. In the U.S. and in particular the federal government, we’ve got pretty strong institutional safeguards and personal biases against corruption.
Thousands of Arizona residents encountered major problems while attempting to vote in the state’s March 22 primary.
The number of polling locations in one county decreased to 60 from 200, causing significantly longer lines. One woman wrote to the Bernie Sanders campaign claiming that she waited in line for nearly 5 hours.
Thousands of other residents arrived at polling sites to find that they had been misidentified as Republicans or Independents, and were instead given provisional ballots.
If your CEO sends you an email request to transfer a few million dollars from the company coffers into an offshore account, then your business might be the target of a sophisticated email scam.
This form of “business email crime”, where hackers impersonate the email account of a company’s head honcho and send requests for staff to transfer company funds offshore has cost companies over US$2 billion in the past two years, according to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Indianapolis, Ind., (March 11, 2016) – A Hoosier Army veteran injured in combat is reacting to the national scandal surrounding the Wounded Warrior Project.
The board of directors for the veterans charity fired it’s top executives Thursday accused of spending millions on travel, meetings and administration.
Dean Graham claimed WWP was “a fraud” on his Help Indiana Veterans charity website in 2013.
Graham was hit with a lawsuit from WWP, was forced to settle and shut down his website.
WASHINGTON (AP) – A Fredericksburg, Virginia, man had pleaded guilty to taking part in a massive tax refund fraud scheme.
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Public Affairs said in a news release that 35-year-old Bradley King pleaded guilty on Monday to conspiracy to defraud the United States, theft of public money and aiding and abetting in fraud.