Clinton conducted all of her electronic correspondence through email accounts stored on a private server actually housed in the former cabinet official’s Chappaqua home. Faced with noticeable disquiet over the lack of access to and archiving of official correspondence, Clinton aids have turned over some 55,000 pages of what they say are relevant documents to the State Department, while Clinton herself tweeted “I want the public to see my email.” The Clinton team said personal correspondence has already been removed from the document dump, while State Department officials said it could take months to review the emails before they can be made public.
After being re-invited to give a presentation in Mesquite, Bureau of Land Management representatives received threats from Ryan Bundy, son of Cliven Bundy, who said the BLM needs to “stay gone and the people won’t allow them to come back.”
BLM representatives came to discuss how to give comments on the Resource Management Plan Draft but were instead drilled with public comments mostly about the Gold Butte area.
Police in Europe will soon be at a technical disadvantage to organized criminals as austerity and funding cuts threaten investment, Europol warned in a new report.
Europe’s policing agency said Monday that criminal gangs will in future do business in a “virtual criminal underground”, using virtual currencies like Bitcoin, which are much harder to trace as well as using communication structures to make themselves more decentralized and looser and thereby harder for police to keep track of.
The United States is offering a $3million reward for information on a Russian hacker charged with bank conspiracy and fraud. Russian citizen Evgeniy Bogachev is charged with running computer attacks that diverted more than one hundred million dollars. He was indicted in Pittsburgh last year on serious charges of bank fraud and conspiracy. The FBI has released pictures of Evgeniy Bogachev; he is charged in US with running a computer attack network called Game over Zeus which stole more than $100 million from online bank accounts. Unconfirmed reports about whereabouts of Evgeniy Bogachev had surfaced earlier.
NEW ORLEANS — A woman who was cleared by a federal judge this week on charges of fraud and misconduct is now suing the former FBI director who made the allegations against her.
Christine Reitano, an attorney who worked along with her husband for the court-authorized BP oil spill claims settlement program, was accused in 2013 of unethical conduct by former FBI director Louis Freeh.
Freeh had been hired to serve as a special master to investigate possible fraud inside the claims center. Reitano was fired and sued the claims administrator, Patrick Juneau, saying she did nothing wrong.
US Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs announces that the United States has paid more than $20 million in rewards for information on people involved in organized crime, under a government program launched in 2013.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The United States has paid more than $20 million in rewards for information on people involved in organized crime, under a government program launched in 2013, US Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs has announced.
Thousands of Ohioans are getting asked some curious questions online and over the phone lately, such as: How old is your grandchild? What brand of car do you have? How long is your mortgage?
Many of these people have a question of their own: What is this — some kind of scam?
The answer: The quiz is legit, part of an effort by the state to thwart … scams. Specifically, the filing of phony tax returns.
Under the new program, some Ohioans who have filed their taxes get letters in the mail from thestate Department of Taxation directing them to take a quiz to verify their identity. They are told to go online or dial a number.
The fiscally shaky Medicare, the Defense Department’s Nuclear Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service were just a few of the federal programs designated as “high risk” by the Government Accountability Office.
The high risk designation identifies federal programs with the greatest “vulnerabilities to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement or the need for transformation to address economy, efficiency, or effectiveness challenges.”
