AN EDUCATION Department auditor who wrote a scathing review of the “banker school” system and identified a $3 million payment to a school’s “tea money” account was “gobsmacked” by the ease with which large sums moved around the department without justification.

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For computer crime expert and ex-Secret Service agent Shaun W. Bridges, the long arm of the law is about to extend itself from the opposite direction to what he had become accustomed during his career, concluding a case brought against two officers in April this year.

Formerly a member of the Secret Service task force which investigated anonymous online marketplace Silk Road’s illicit activities which included the facilitation of narcotics sale and money laundering, resulting in the seizure of the website by the US government, and the conviction and incarceration of founder Ross Ulbricht, Mr. Bridges is accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin, and routing the money to his own accounts according to federal court documents.

According to a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, California, Mr. Bridges’ involvement in the conviction of Mr. Ulbricht for narcotics trafficking, money laundering and computer hacking extends much further.

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Throw the bums out!

A new poll out Wednesday shows that New Yorkers are fed up with corruption in Albany and believe the state should simply start with a clean slate of lawmakers.

A whopping 55% of those surveyed in a Quinnipiac University poll said “all elected officials” in Albany should be voted out of office so a group of uncorrupted, fresh faces can take over.

Only 28% disagreed and said that the current crowd is capable of ending political corruption in Albany.

“Can Albany fix itself? A lot of New Yorkers don’t think so,”said Maurice Carroll, Quinnipiac poll assistant director.

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The new standings are out, and Illinois remains No. 3 in the nation when it comes to political corruption.  This is according to a University of Illinois study of 2013 data. On a per capita basis, only Louisiana and the District of Columbia had more political and government corruption convictions in federal court than Illinois did. Political science professor Dick Simpson says it’s part of the culture here, going back centuries, which he blames on political machines in many Illinois…

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The Home Ministry clarified that only two policemen were suspected to be involved in human trafficking, contrary to reported 12 who were detained over the crime.

Deputy Minister Datuk Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar today said another two policemen and 10 enforcement officers from various agencies were nabbed for “ordinary smuggling” which, he explained, had nothing to do with human trafficking.

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