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Cops Kick Out Innocent Man's Tooth In Mistaken Arrest: $12M Suit
Quayshaun Smith says Brooklyn cops tased him, kicked him in the face, then said sorry when they realized they'd arrested the wrong man.



https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html



Hundreds of inmates walking out of prison in largest single-day mass commutation in U.S. history

By NELSON OLIVEIRA

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 04, 2019 | 3:54 PM


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Ex-cop accused of stealing tires will likely get charges dismissed
Updated 4:41 PM;Today 2:33 PM



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Muslim cop harassed over beard that was ‘too manicured,' lawsuit says
Today 5:46 PM



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North Carolina Cop Reportedly Dragged Black Woman Out Of Car During A Traffic Sto


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Wilton cop was fired for lying about underage drinking party
By Patricia Gay Published 2:30 pm EST, Monday, November 4, 2019



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Suit filed by children of Neptune cop who killed his ex-wife can move forward, judge rules
Updated 6:50 PM;Today 1:53 PM





https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politi ... story.html


NYC Council members decry new top cop pick as missed opportunity for greater NYPD diversity

By SHANT SHAHRIGIAN

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 04, 2019 | 8:36 PM




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Ex-St. Louis cop on trial for 'rough ride' charges
By Joel Currier St. Louis Post-Dispatch 3 hrs ago 0



https://www.mymoinfo.com/2019/11/04/for ... f-suspect/

Former Bonne Terre Cop Pleads Guilty & Sentenced to Felony Assault of Suspect
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https://www.nj.com/cumberland/2019/11/c ... -suit.html

Chief wanted to trade a promotion for sex with my wife and daughter, cop claims in suit


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California fraud investigator, 32, kills his cop friend and critically wounds his own father before shooting himself dead after the 'heroic' pair tried to stop him arguing with his girlfriend at a birthday party




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911 supervisor playing Netflix movie didn’t flag call as a shooting n



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RUSSIA INVESTIGATIONPublished 4 hours ago
Flynn attorney demands FBI search 'Sentinel' database for missing, 'manipulated' witness reports


https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house ... hael-flynn

FBI hand-slapping outweighs any lies by Michael Flynn


https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/04/sc ... te-smears/

SCOOP: CIA, FBI Informant Was Washington Post Source For Russiagate Smears
These close connections between the Washington Post’s David Ignatius and people connected to U.S. and U.K. intelligence raise grave concerns about the deep state using media to push propaganda


https://www.kmbc.com/article/inside-the ... y/29688094

Inside the FBI Citizens Academy


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Monday Morning Skeptic: In Boston Bombing, FBI Fights for Public’s Right to Know… Nothing
Reading Time: 7 minutes
The feds are keeping us in the dark about the labyrinthine investigation on the Boston Marathon bombing. Documents mysteriously appear in the hands of pet journalists, then quickly disappear. This is convenient for the government, which wants to know everything about us while giving up little about its own agenda.


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Schorman on Cecil, 'Branding Hoover's FBI: How the Boss's PR Men Sold the Bureau to America'
Author: 
Matthew Cecil
Reviewer: 
Rob Schorman
Matthew Cecil. Branding Hoover's FBI: How the Boss's PR Men Sold the Bureau to America. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2016. 344 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-2305-1.
Reviewed by Rob Schorman (Miami University of Ohio Regionals) Published on H-FedHist (October, 2017) Commissioned by Caryn E. Neumann
Matthew Cecil, in Branding Hoover's FBI: How the Boss's PR Men Sold the Bureau to America, lays out a case that the prestige and public trust enjoyed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) during most of J. Edgar Hoover’s




https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10. ... 7.12059161


Jackals, Vultures, Scavengers, and Scoundrels
FBI Public Relations and J. Edgar Hoover's Handwritten “Blue Gems”
Matthew Cecil, Jessica Freeman & Jennifer Tiernan
Pages 2-11 | Published online: 19 Mar 2019





https://theintercept.com/2019/11/03/per ... osecutors/

IN PERU’S OPERATION CAR WASH, PROSECUTORS AND WITNESS DOCTORED TESTIMONY TO AVOID CONTRADICTIONS
Rafael Neves, Ernesto Cabral, Rafael Moro Martins


https://theintercept.com/2019/11/04/phi ... democrats/

TWO SURGING CANDIDATES COULD MAKE PHILADELPHIA FAR MORE PROGRESSIVE. DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO WAR TO STOP THEM.
Akela Lacy
November 4 2019, 11:51 a.m.


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Archaeologists find tunnel with pre-Hispanic images in Ecatepec
The tunnel is part of a 17th-century dike system called the Albarradón de Ecatepec


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USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: Nov. 4, 2019

November 4, 2019 11:10 AM




https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/01 ... neighbors/


NOVEMBER 1, 2019
Don’t Call the Police, Call Your Neighbors!




by GLORIA OLADIPO

Here is a hard truth: Police do not keep communities safe.
This year alone has produced numerous stories of officers causing distress, damage, or death in communities they’re sworn to protect. As this epidemic worsens, communities need to find new ways to handle crisis situations without police intervention.
Modern U.S. police forces evolved from watch systems developed in the early colonies, which were gradually professionalized after the emergence of cities — and the rise of slavery. In the South, these forces were used as “slave patrols,” tasked with catching runaway slaves and squashing uprisings.
The role of police has greatly expanded since then, with officers intervening in everything from mental health crises to routine schoolyard incidents. With police now receiving military-grade weapons and often legally insulated from accountability, citizens are at the mercy of choices officers make — decisions that may be made under extreme distress or tainted with bias.
Black Americans are most at risk. Compared to other demographics, we face a significantly higher risk of being killed by police. Just this year Black Americans have






Media of the Day
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
Remembering the Greensboro Massacre of 1979, When KKK & Nazis Killed 5 People in Broad Daylight






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Democracy Now!
598K subscribers
Remembering the Greensboro Massacre of 1979, When KKK & Nazis Killed 5 People in Broad Daylight

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Sorry Fru, I couldn't resist, it's one of my few original jokes. Thanks for the links.

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Thursday, 07 November 2019


NSA Official Refuses to Reveal the Success — or Failure — of Phone Surveillance
Written by  Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee from both sides of the aisle are questioning the necessity of renewing one of the NSA’s many telephone surveillance programs.
During a hearing on Wednesday, Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Democrat Dianne Feinstein of California each peppered an NSA representative regarding that organization’s drive to continue its unconstitutional collection of Call Detail Records (CDR) of Americans, records that reveal personal data of millions of citizens.
The Hill offered the following summary of the surveillance program being debated:
The call detail records program gathered information on incoming and outgoing domestic text messages and phone calls to aid the government in terrorism investigations. Civil liberties advocates are pressing Congress to allow the program to sunset entirely, claiming that privacy concerns outweigh any national security benefits.
"Why should we reauthorize it?" Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked NSA official Susan Morgan. 


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Feinstein followed suit. "It’s really not clear to me why a program with limited intelligence value and clear compliance problems should be reauthorized," the California Democrat said. "And unless there is good reason to believe



https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html


Six active and retired NYPD cops arrested as FBI cracks fraud ring

By STEPHEN REX BROWN and THOMAS TRA


https://nypost.com/2019/11/07/north-car ... dy-search/

North Carolina cop accused of sexually assaulting woman during body search
By Jackie Salo
November 7, 2019 |



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Senior police officer accused of failing to report child abuse video



https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... controller

L.A. firefighter banked $360,010 in overtime pay in one year, city audit finds



https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html

Florida man’s abdominal pains appeared to be linked to the 8-inch screwdriver in his rectum

By BRIAN NIEMIETZ

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 06, 2019 | 4:18 PM



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Group of deaf, mute friends stabbed at bar after thug mistakes sign language for gang signs

By PHILIP CAULFIELD




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A Guitarmaker's Canvas: The Inlay Art of Grit…







https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ ... story.html

Retired U.S. Air Force general charged with more than a dozen counts of child porn possession

By JESSICA SCHLADEBECK

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 07, 2019 | 8:52 AM




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News

Craziest smoke test ever: Firefighter chief in tiny Siberian village suspected of five arsons ‘to check brigade’s preparedness’
7 Nov, 2019 11:59 / Updated 2 hours



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... rials-leak



Leak from neo-Nazi site could identify hundreds of extremists worldwide


https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... n-atkinson

Police officer charged with murder of Dalian Atkinson
Second constable facing charge of actual bodily harm after death of former footballer





https://www.nydailynews.com/news/nation ... story.html

Chicago’s top cop to retire weeks after being found slumped at wheel of his car


https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019 ... a7dfd4a036

American Chronicles
November 11, 2019 Issue
When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals
A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.




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Duty to Warn: Has the Trump Administration Learned from the Khashoggi Failure?

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Our History, Our Service
FBI Events Mark 100 Years Since First African-American Special Agent





https://www.amazon.com/Eyes-My-Soul-Dec ... 0912469331

Eyes to My Soul: The Rise or Decline of a Black FBI Agent
by Tyrone Powers (Author)


Former FBI Special Agent Tyrone Powers, a veteran of the Maryland State Police, spent nine years as an FBI agent, with postings in Cincinnati and Detroit. He resigned in August 1994.
The picture of the country's top law enforcement agency that emerges from Powers' eloquent prose reveals an organization beset by the same problems of racism that plague the rest of American society. Powers describes sheet-clad students at the FBI Academy impersonating Ku Klux Klansmen. He reports on FBI Agents in Detroit raising funds for white Detroit policemen charged with (and later convicted of) second degree murder in the death of Black motorist Malice Green. White agents on one occasion substituted the face of an ape on the photo of an African American agent's children, displayed on their Black colleague's desk.
White agents, according to Powers' narrative, urinated on photographs of President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore. Powers provides eyewitness evidence of the agency's extralegal harassment of African American mayors Coleman Young (Detroit), Marion Barry (Washington, DC) and Harold Washington (Chicago).
His story parallels similar complaints of harassment voiced in recent years by the Congressional Black Caucus and in the 1960s by Civil Rights workers. The FBI's Counter Intelligence Program of surveillance, disruption and assassinations against the Black movement of the 1960s and 1970s (COINTELPRO), has received wide coverage in recent years.
Former Special Agent Powers grew up in inner city Baltimore and his autobiographical recollections combine the sociologist's insight with the novelist's flair for storytelling. The problems of the inner city are presented in all theirunvarnished starkness. There was drug dealing, violence, gang feuds and incest in the experience of an inner city youth growing to manhood. Some of it was very close to home.




https://www.cbs19news.com/content/news/ ... 00211.html


Guilty plea for FBI translator whose voice was intercepted




https://www.twincities.com/2019/11/08/e ... nage-girl/

Cop gets 3 years for sex with a teen






https://nypost.com/2019/11/09/st-louis- ... g-protest/

NEWS

St. Louis cop Randy Hays pleads guilty to beating undercover colleague during protest



https://gothamist.com/news/video-shows- ... sk-reforms

Video Shows NYPD Cops Brazenly Ignoring Stop And Frisk Reforms
BY CHRISTOPHER ROBBINS
NOV. 8, 2019 4:41 P.M.



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LAW ENFORCEMENT / BURLINGTON
AG Won't Charge Burlington Cop in Death That Ignited Political Firestorm
POSTED BY DEREK BROUWER ON FRI, NOV 8, 2019





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Orlando cop fired after grabbing teen by hair and yanking her head





https://nypost.com/2019/11/08/nypd-cop- ... ng-arrest/


NYPD cop admits he lied about being struck by suspect’s car during arrest






https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2019 ... ds-lawsuit


City sued for not firing Chicago cop later convicted of sex trafficking
The suit says a box containing 46 color Polaroids of nude and scantily clad women was left on the dashboard of William Whitley’s department vehicle.
By Jon Seidel Nov 8, 2019, 12:26pm CST



https://triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-a ... old-niece/

Allegheny County cop strikes plea deal in connection to overdose death of his 15-year-old niece

NATASHA LINDSTROM | Thursday, November 7, 2019 8: b




https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2019/11/08/ ... sociopath/

Hey, Chief Chan, Here’s a Cop Who Drives Like a Sociopath!
* By Gersh Kuntzman
* Nov 8, 2019



https://www.ctpost.com/policereports/ar ... 818018.php

Trumbull cop gets suspended term in sex assault of teen
By Daniel Tepfer Updated 10:14 pm EST, Thursday, November 7, 2019
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https://www.thestate.com/news/state/sou ... 71348.html

Cop charged with assault after video shows he hit a handcuffed man, SC officials say

Read more here: https://www.thestate.com/news/state/sou ... rylink=cpy




https://www.wcvb.com/article/trooper-ac ... t/29734680

Charges dropped for trooper accused of lewd act at Gillette Stadium





https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/bre ... story.html

* NEWS
Woman sues ex-Chicago cop who sexually assaulted her when she was 14, accuses city of failing to act on warning signs

By PAIGE FRY

CHICAGO TRIBUNE |
NOV 07, 2019 | 6:33 PM




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Charges dropped for trooper accused of exposing himself at Gillette Stadiu



https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/11/09 ... president/

Lucas: Reporters collude with FBI against Trump
The next time you are talking to a Washington reporter, make sure he is not colluding with the FBI. Otherwise you could have big problems, the way Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign manager, did following a meeting four Associated Press reporters had with Andrew Weisman, then chief of the Justice Department’s Criminal Fraud Section, and other FBI agents. It...



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French culture ministry official spiked 200 female interviewees’ drinks with diuretics to watch them URINATE
8 Nov, 2019 19:27 / Updated 4 hours ago




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Crime pays off? Danish city offers convicted criminals CASH AID for moving out of ‘ghettos’
8 Nov, 2019 20:42 / Updated 4 hours ago




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HomeWorld News

Several killed, 100+ homes destroyed & koala habitat wiped out in Australia brush fires (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
9 Nov, 2019 01:07 / Updated 4 hours ago
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/ ... vo-morales

Bolivian police 'mutiny' in opposition to Evo Morales
Groups of officers in major cities join protests over disputed presidential election result


https://www.theguardian.com/news/databl ... n-datablog

Coca-Cola is world's biggest plastics polluter – again
Volunteers in 51 countries collected plastic waste and the soft drink manufacturer’s products cropped up the most often




https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... white-gaze

How the art of black power shook off the white gaze


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/ ... lasses-ban

Japanese women demand right to wear glasses at work
Public outcry after TV show exposes businesses imposing ban on female staff



https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/12 ... ex-traffic


Jeffrey Epstein: FBI ready to strike against paedophile's 'child groomers'
FBI agents are poised to arrest at least four suspects in the Jeffrey Epstein child sex trafficking case, a legal source said last night.
By MIKE PARKER
PUBLISHED: 00:01, Sun, Nov 10, 2019



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FBI agent guilty of sex abuse

Was bureau's chief of internal affairs

|  February 18, 2004
WASHINGTON -- The former chief internal watchdog at the FBI has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl and has admitted he had a history of molesting other children before he joined the bureau for what became a two-decade career.
John H. Conditt Jr., 53, who retired in 2001, was sentenced last week in Tarrant County Court in Fort Worth to 12 years in prison after he admitted he molested the daughter of two FBI agents after he retired. He acknowledged molesting at least two other girls before he began his law enforcement career, his lawyer said.
Conditt sought treatment for sex offenders after his arrest last year, said his attorney, Toby Goldsmith.



https://apnews.com/9b4eeea04b6e2f16d4bedbf5d4508b6b

Sisters Win Sex Abuse Civil Lawsuit Against Their FBI Father

FBI agent started sexually molesting his 3 daughters when they
were 2 years old.




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https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/crim ... cab8e2ed23

FBI covers up child abuse, murder in Nebraska




SOURCES: FBI Civil Rights division probes St Tammany Sheriff’s defamation arrest


https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1990 ... _fbi_h.pdf.



FBI, hysterical over EIR expose, plans next phase of coverup




https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... er-8-2019/

Georgia city settles year-long open records lawsuit
On October 28th, the City of Roswell, Georgia settled a Georgia Open Records Act lawsuit with Appen Media Group. The lawsuit, which had gone on for nearly a year, accused the Roswell Police Department of consistently withholding “vital information about criminal incidents” from release and failing to meet time requirements for supplying records. Initially, Roswell’s attorneys claimed that the city was protected by “the doctrine of sovereign immunity,” which states that the government cannot be sued without its consent. However, Appen launched a GoFundMe, which raised $4,220 and helped sustain the lawsuit.
The settlement agreement, unanimously passed by Roswell’s City Council, involves the city paying Appen $10,500 in attorney’s fees and “a year’s worth of free open records requests.” The settlement also includes the city admitting no liability in the alleged public records wrongdoings.
Blackbox, the site where this story was published, is owned by Appen Media Group.
Read more from Julia Grochowski at Blackbox.
Buzzfeed’s big week: Mueller probe documents and an overturned GLOMAR
This FOIA round-up would not be complete without discussing arguably the largest FOIA story of the week, which one could argue is either of the big FOIA wins from BuzzFeed News this week.
Reporters there obtained a treasure trove of FBI docs in response to five different FOIA lawsuits. The first installment ordered released by a court featured FBI 302 reports from the Mueller investigation, the summaries of interviews with White House and Trump campaign officials.
Through the materials, BuzzFeed News found Paul Manafort was “pushing the conspiracy theory that Ukraine hacked the DNC as early as 2016” and that, according to Rick Gates, then-candidate Donald Trump, following the DNC hack, told Gates that “more leaks were coming.” Many more revelations were reported by BuzzFeed News, and the documents have led to reporting by many other news outlets.
You can join in on the fun. BuzzFeed News says: “We want your help! If you see something in these memos, you can email reporter Jason Leopold at jason.leopold@buzzfeed.com or reach us securely at tips.buzzfeed.com.”
BuzzFeed News reporter Jason Leopold chronicled on Twitter the effort that went into this FOIA release.




https://theintercept.com/2019/11/09/cri ... tion-book/

THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IS NOT BROKEN. IT’S DOING WHAT IT WAS DESIGNED TO DO.
Alice Speri
November 9 2019, 10:32 a.m.

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https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2 ... 855b9cd2e0

Opinion: The Supreme Court is thinking about giving police a new excuse to pull you over





http://ticklethewire.com/2019/11/11/atf ... ings-rise/

ATF Loses Agents And Resources As Gun Deaths, Mass Shootings Rise




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South Carolina Sheriff Arrested, Charged with Punching a Woman in the Face




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Oklahoma Cop Kills Police Chief during Public Safety Conference in Florida



https://nypost.com/2019/11/11/nypd-body ... rt-papers/

METRO
EXCLUSIVE

NYPD bodycam shows cop ogling a ‘total stripper’: court papers





https://www.kctv5.com/news/local_news/r ... a3999.html

Record: KCK officer tried to keep victims quiet after cop threat
* Associated Press
* Updated 5 hrs ago | Posted on Nov 11, 2019




http://www.startribune.com/sentence-pri ... 564754432/


Sentence: Prison, lifetime gun ban for ex-Warroad cop who sexually assaulted, stalked teen
The assaults were numerous and spanned from 2017 to early 2019, according to authorities. 
By Paul Walsh Star Tribune


https://www.newser.com/story/282895/ex- ... or-7m.html

Go to Grid|Next Story

Central to Ex-Cop's $7M Lawsuit: the Term 'Hairbag'
Keith Dietrich says it's evidence of age discrimination





https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/ar ... s-with-law

Detroit cop accused of demanding women's phone numbers had previous brushes with law
Posted By Steve Neavling on Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 11:59 am




https://www.sacbee.com/news/investigati ... 90084.html

INVESTIGATIONS
‘Second Chance PD.’ One California town’s history of hiring cops with troubling pasts
BY LAURENCE DU SAULT AND KATEY RUSCH
NOVEMBER 11, 2019 06:00 AM,

Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/investigati ... ylink=cpyv


https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/eye-on-g ... FzEMJ4l-Q/

Drunk Arkansas Cop who Stripped Naked on Dancefloor Allowed to Drive Home


https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/11/10/ ... n-the-job/

California’s Criminal Cops: Who they are, what they did, why some are still working
A six-month investigation found more than 80 law enforcement officers with rap sheets still employed today



https://www.silive.com/news/2019/11/eve ... ravis.html



Event focused on cop mental health to be held Saturday in Travis
Updated 4:05 PM;Today 3:57 PM




https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/11/10/ ... a-mistake/


California Criminal Cops: Ex-police chief who hired abusive brother-in-law: ‘Maybe I made a mistake’




https://www.coloradopolitics.com/denver ... fa367.html

Denver continues rethinking public safety to dispatch fewer cops, more mental health experts
* Alayna Alvarez, Colorado Politics Nov 11, 2019 U



https://futurism.com/cops-warrant-entire-dna-websites

Cops Can Now Get Warrants for Entire DNA Websites
One judge's decision could set off a privacy nightmare.






https://www.pressherald.com/2019/11/11/ ... n-seattle/

Two Maine artists win $1 million public art commission in Seattle
Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen are designing a large permanent installation for a new convention center.




https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/11 ... alia-1919/

Class War Violence: Centralia 1919
by AARON GOINGS, BRIAN BARNES, AND ROGER SNIDER
November 11, 2019, will mark the 100-year anniversary of the Armistice Day Tragedy in Centralia, Washington, a horrible event in Pacific Northwest history. On Armistice Day, 1919, a mob of American Legionaires raided the Centralia Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) hall and later lynched Wesley Everest, an IWW logger. More




https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/10/30 ... able-news/

OCTOBER 30, 2019
Money Talks, Bullshit Walks on Cable News




https://www.law.com/texaslawyer/2019/11 ... 1011231604


FBI Asked Houston Black Judge to Wear Wire to Investigate Other Jurists, Attorney Claims
A Texas jurist, 164th District Judge Alexandra Smoots-Thomas, pleaded not guilty to seven counts of wire fraud in a case that alleged she misused campaign contributions for personal expenses. Her attorney, Kent Schaffer, said the prosecution is political, and he thinks she will beat the charges.
By Angela Morris and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | November 08, 2019 at 02:33 PM



https://www.desmoinesregister.com/in-de ... 529996001/

Jean Seberg: Iowa actress robbed of Cinderella story by FBI harassment
Jean Seberg won an 'American Idol'-like contest to become a movie star, only to have her philanthropy make her the target of an FBI smear campaign. Seberg died by 'probable suicide' in 1979 at age 40.
Daniel P. Finney, Des Moines Register


https://www.propublica.org/article/mumb ... in-advance

FBI Was Warned Years in Advance of Mumbai Attacker's Terror Ties
Three years before the Mumbai attack, the U.S. was warned that a key figure in the plot had terror ties.





https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/28/nyre ... blast.html

FBI Allowed bomb to be detonated in 1993 World Trade Center Bombing

Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast

Law-enforcement officials were told that terrorists were building a bomb that was eventually used to blow up the World Trade Center, and they planned to thwart the plotters by secretly substituting harmless powder for the explosives, an informer said after the blast.
The informer was to have helped the plotters build the bomb and supply the fake powder, but the plan was called off by an F.B.I. supervisor who had other ideas about how the informer, Emad A. Salem, should be used, the informer said.
The account, which is given in the transcript of hundreds of hours of tape recordings Mr. Salem secretly made of his talks with law-enforcement agents, portrays the authorities as in a far better position than previously known to foil the Feb. 26 bombing of New York City's tallest towers. The explosion left six people dead, more than 1,000 injured and damages in excess of half a billion dollars. Four men are now on trial in Manhattan Federal Court in that attack.
Mr. Salem, a 43-year-old former Egyptian army officer, was used by the Government to penetrate a circle of Muslim ex

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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... rophic-day

Australia fires could be out of control for months, says fire chief
Concern grows over wind changes and high temperatures forecast for later this week


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From Barry Seal to Donald Trump
By Daniel Hopsicker -
June 5, 2019
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This is a story about  ‘connections,’ elite deviance and the CIA.  More specifically,  Donald Trump’s connections, a  word which has a long history of usage in organized crime. 
As in,  ‘He’s connected.’
A member of the Mafia is known as a ‘made guy.’ Someone who’s ‘connected’ has been vouched for by a ‘made guy,’ who typically refers to him as “a friend of mine.”
The growth of transnational organized crime has now rendered this lexicon somewhat out of date. Organized crime’s typically hierarchical crime structure—soldiers, button men, capos, underbosses, kingpins—has given way to more informal networks which s



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November 12, 2019
Vandalism Fears, Racist Cats: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts releases comments on Kehinde Wiley acquisition
Everyone’s a critic, sure, but we weren’t prepared for a racist critique co-signed by two cats.
Written by Tom Nash
Edited by Beryl Lipton
Everyone’s a critic. But nothing prepared us for the racist art critique co-signed by two Virginia cats.
In June, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced its acquisition of “Rumors of War,” a sculpture by world-renowned artist Kehinde Wiley created in response to Richmond’s Monument Avenue. The stretch of tony Richmond real estate started to take shape in the 1890s when Lost Cause backers began erecting equestrian statues of Confederate generals, just as the city’s ascendant Black middle class came under attack from Jim Crow laws. Wiley became inspired by Monument Avenue’s J.E.B. Stuart statue, which he saw while in town for the opening of his 2016 VMFA exhibition, and “Rumors of War” bears a resemblance to the figure—with Stuart replaced.
Wiley unveiled the statue in Times Square in September. It will take its place in front of the VMFA in December. Being a government agency, the comments received by VMFA at the front desk or by email belong to us. Ahead of the December installation, we thought we’d see what people have to say so far.
The bulk of the 29 comments received and provided to us under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act came in just after the announcement, with some trickling in following the unveiling.
Eighteen registered some form of enthusiasm—whether that meant congratulating VMFA Director Alex Nyerges or worrying Virginians would attempt to va

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Twenty firms generated one-third of all emissions

Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions
New data shows how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers
The Guardian (U.K.), Oct. 9, 2019
The Guardian today revealed the 20 fossil fuel companies whose relentless exploitation of the world’s oil, gas and coal reserves can be directly linked to more than one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions in the modern era.
New data from world-renowned researchers reveals how this cohort of state-owned and multinational firms are driving the climate emergency that threatens the future of humanity, and details how they have continued to expand their operations despite being aware of the industry’s devastating impact on the planet.

The analysis, by Richard Heede at the Climate Accountability Institute in the US, the world’s leading authority on big oil’s role in the escalating climate emergency, evaluates what the global corporations have extracted from the ground, and the subsequent emissions these fossil fuels are responsible for since 1965 – the point at which experts say the environmental impact of fossil fuels was known by both industry leaders and politicians.
The top 20 companies on the list have contributed to 35% of all energy-related carbon dioxide and methane worldwide, totalling 480bn tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e) since 1965.
Those identified range from investor-owned firms – household names such as Chevron, Exxon, BP and Shell – to state-owned companies including Saudi Aramco and Gazprom.
Chevron topped the list of the eight investor-owned corporations, followed closely by Exxon, BP and Shell. Together these four global businesses are behind more than 10% of the world’s carbon emissions since 1965.
 
Twelve of the top 20 companies are state-owned and together their extractions are responsible for 20% of total emissions in the same period. The leading state-owned polluter is Saudi Aramco, which has produced 4.38% of the global total on its own.
Michael Mann, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, said the findings shone a light on the role of fossil fuel companies and called on politicians at the forthcoming climate talks in Chile in December to take urgent measures to rein in their activities.
 
“The great tragedy of the climate crisis is that seven and a half billion people must pay the price – in the form of a degraded planet – so that a couple of dozen polluting interests can continue to make record profits. It is a great moral failing of our political system that we have allowed this to happen.”
The global polluters list uses company-reported annual production of oil, natural gas, and coal and then calculates how much of the carbon and methane in the produced fuels is emitted to the atmosphere throughout the supply chain, from extraction to end use.
It found that 90% of the emissions attributed to the top 20 climate culprits was from use of their products, such as petrol, jet fuel, natural gas, and thermal coal. One-tenth came from extracting, refining, and delivering the finished fuels.
The Guardian approached the 20 companies named in the polluters list. Seven of them replied. Some argued that they were not directly responsible for how the oil, gas or coal they extracted were used by consumers. Several disputed claims that the environmental impact of fossil fuels was known as far back as the late 1950s or that the industry collectively had worked to delay action.
Most explicitly said they accepted the climate science and some claimed to support the targets set out in the Paris agreement to reduce emissions and keep global temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
All pointed out efforts they were making to invest in renewable or low carbon energy sources and said fossil fuel companies had an important role to play in addressing the climate crisis. PetroChina said it was a separate company from its predecessor, China National Petroleum, so had no influence over, or responsibility for, its historical emissions.
The latest study builds on previous work by Heede and his team that has looked at the historical role of fossil fuel companies in the escalating climate crisis.
The impact of emissions from coal, oil and gas produced by fossil fuel companies has been huge. According to research published in 2017 by Peter Frumhoff at the Union of Concerned Scientists in the US and colleagues, CO2 and methane emissions from the 90 biggest industrial carbon producers were responsible for almost half the rise in global temperature and close to a third of the sea level rise between 1880 and 2010. The scientists said such work furthered the “consideration of [companies’] historical responsibilities for climate change”.
Heede said: “These companies and their products are substantially responsible for the climate emergency, have collectively delayed national and global action for decades, and can no longer hide behind the smokescreen that consumers are the responsible parties.
“Oil, gas, and coal executives derail progress and offer platitudes when their vast capital, technical expertise, and moral obligation should enable rather than thwart the shift to a low-carbon future.”
Heede said 1965 was chosen as the start point for this new data because recent research had revealed that by that stage the environmental impact of fossil fuels was known by industry leaders and politicians, particularly in the US.
In November 1965, the president, Lyndon Johnson, released a report authored by the Environmental Pollution Panel of the President’s Science Advisory Committee, which set out the likely impact of continued fossil fuel production on global heating.
In the same year, the president of the American Petroleum Institute told its annual gathering: “One of the most important predictions of the [president’s report] is that carbon dioxide is being added to the Earth’s atmosphere by the burning of coal, oil and natural gas at such a rate by the year 2000 the heat balance will be so modified as possibly to cause marked changes in climate beyond local or even national efforts.”
 
Heede added: “Leading companies and industry associations were aware of, or wilfully ignored, the threat of climate change from continued use of their products since the late 1950s.”
The research aims to hold to account those companies most responsible for carbon emissions, and shift public and political debate away from a focus just on individual responsibility. It follows a warning from the UN in 2018 that the world has just 12 years to avoid the worst consequences of runaway global heating and restrict temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
The study shows that many of the worst offenders are investor-owned companies that are household names around the world and spend billions of pounds on lobbying governments and portraying themselves as environmentally responsible.


A study earlier this year found that the largest five stock-market-listed oil and gas companies spend nearly $200m each year lobbying to delay, control or block policies to tackle climate change.

Heede said the companies had a “significant moral, financial, and legal responsibility for the climate crisis, and a commensurate burden to help address the problem”.
He added: “Even though global consumers from individuals to corporations are the ultimate emitters of carbon dioxide, the Climate Accountability Institute focuses its work on the fossil fuel companies that, in our view, have their collective hand on the throttle and the tiller determining the rate of carbon emissions and the shift to non-carbon fuels.”
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Kirk, I just emailed your email below to our people throughout the country. Charlie

PS. Kirk was the first person on death row found innocent by DNA.

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Kirk Bloodsworth <info@witnesstoinnocence.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 10:19 PM
Subject: Tonight, Rodney will hear the voice of a death row survivor.
To: <cure@curenational.org>


Dear friends,
Twenty-four hours ago, I was standing in front of the Supreme Court with my death row exoneree brother, Shujaa Graham, and the family of Rodney Reed. We were praying for a stay of execution. We were telling the nation why the death penalty must be abolished.
Then, as I was preparing to fly to the Texas capitol to continue to fight for Rodney's life, I received the news that today the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed the execution and instructed the district court to review Rodney's innocence claims.
The entire Witness to Innocence family breathed a huge sigh of relief. We have sat on death row. We have had our innocence denied. We have faced execution dates. The fight for Rodney's life is a continuation of our own battles to survive death row.
Before the stay of execution, I recorded this video:

Watch the Video
Even as I write this, our work continues. Juan Melendez is on his way to do a radio show that will air inside Texas prisons. Rodney will be able to hear Juan's voice and know that the death row exonerees of Witness to Innocence are with him.
Thank you for standing with us and with Rodney Reed. The death penalty is a torturous weight upon anyone sitting in that cell, innocent or guilty. Together, we can, and we must, bring it to an end. 
Sincerely,
Kirk Bloodsworth
Executive Director

Witness to Innocence is the only national organization in the United States composed of and led by exonerated death row survivors and their family members. Our mission is to abolish the death penalty by empowering our members to become effective leaders in the abolition movement. We actively challenge political leaders and the public to grapple with the reality of a fatally flawed criminal justice system that sends innocent people to death row. We also seek ways to support death row survivors and their loved ones as they confront the challenges of life after exoneration.



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Commentary: Speak up now to protect Atlantic puffins and the fish they rely on
Herring conservation measures will also benefit cod, salmon and many other predatory marine species.

As a seabird lover and scientist, I am lucky enough to migrate every summer to coastal Maine to study the local seabirds. I get to watch firsthand as Atlantic puffins nest and forage for fish all summer long. Every time I boat out to one of the puffin islands, I see firsthand why they need a steady supply of forage fish. As the boat pulls up and the fog clears, streams of puffins zoom past us. Each bird departs the island many times per day with just one goal: to find enough forage fish to feed themselves and their chicks.
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For first time, Mr. Universe bodybuilding title goes to man from India

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By KATE FELDMAN

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NOV 17, 2019 | 9:28 AM





TOP NEWS

 
These prison inmates are getting a seat at the decision-making table

Maine Public
On a recent ‪Tuesday morning‬, a group of Maine State Prison inmates, along with prison administrators, corrections officers and state legislators, gathered around tables in the facility’s visitation room. An agenda was passed out, an inmate set up a laptop to take minutes of the meeting, then a strangely democratic process got underway.  READ MORE

 

 
Wake Correctional Center part of pilot program using ankle monitors to track work-release inmates

WTVD-TV
Almost every day, 87 men walk out of the gates of the Wake Correctional Center and head off to work. And state prison officials say the work release program they take part in is all about public safety. "If they come out and are gainfully employed they are less likely to go out and commit additional crimes," said Sarah Cobb, the director of Rehabilitative Services for the NC Prison Division. "So that makes it safer for my family and for your family."  READ MORE
 
New screening tool developed for Larimer County Community Corrections

Loveland Reporter-Herald
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Research finds benefits of correctional education programs on incarcerated individuals

Diverse Education
New research highlights the positive impact of rehabilitative and correctional education programs on the societal reentry process of an incarcerated individual. The report, “Equipping Individuals for Life Beyond Bars” was carried out by the Washington D.C. based think-tank New America.  READ MORE
 
Nebraska Corrections Director Frakes: Reentry programs critical in easing prison overcrowding

Lincoln Journal Star
Corrections Director Scott Frakes oversees a crowded prison system that has grown significantly over the past two years, despite reforms intended to reduce the inmate population. Frakes went to the Capitol recently to talk to the Legislature's Judiciary Committee about how the Department of Correctional Services goes about preparing inmates to reenter society.  READ MORE
 

 
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Lawmakers go to prison to hear from guards, inmates on corrections conditions

VT Digger
A panel of state lawmakers who help develop prison policies in Vermont hit the road recently and heard from those directly impacted by their decisions: the corrections officers and prisoners working and living behind bars. The Joint Legislative Justice Oversight Committee met Friday in the visiting room of the Northwest State Correctional Facility in Swanton.  READ MORE
 
Early intervention programs can link incarcerated individuals to HIV care prior to release

Contagion
Linking incarcerated individuals living with HIV to community-care and treatment services upon release from jail is an important element of stopping HIV transmission. In a poster presented at the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care Conference (ANAC 2019) a team of investigators from Cooper University Medical Center highlighted their work in providing linkage to community care to inmates with HIV in the Camden County Correctional Facility.  READ MORE
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Wake Correctional Center part of pilot program using ankle monitors to track work-release inmates
New screening tool developed for Larimer County Community Corrections
Research finds benefits of correctional education programs on incarcerated individuals
Nebraska Corrections Director Frakes: Reentry programs critical in easing prison overcrowding
MISSED AN ISSUE OF DOING WHAT WORKS? VISIT AND SEARCH THE ARCHIVE TODAY.
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Early intervention programs can link incarcerated individuals to HIV care prior to release

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“Where’s My Roy Cohn?”: Film Explores How Joseph McCarthy’s Ex-Aide Mentored Trump & Roger Stone
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Another Brooklyn murder conviction tossed due to dicey NYPD Detective Louis Scarcella

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Partial records on JFK assassination released as Trump holds back other files
Written by Robert Smith × November 20, 2019
President Donald Trump delayed on Thursday evening the release of thousands of pages of classified documents related to the John F. Kennedy assassination, bowing to pressure from the CIA, FBI and other federal agencies still seeking to keep some final secrets about the nearly 54-year-old investigation.
The president allowed the immediate release of 2,800 records by the National Archives, following a last-minute scramble to meet a 25-year legal deadline. Following lobbying by national security officials, the remaining documents will be reviewed during a 180-day period. In a memo released by the White House, Trump said: "I am ordering today that the veil finally be lifted. At the same time, executive departments and agencies have proposed to me that certain information should continue to be redacted because of national security, law enforcement, and foreign affairs concerns. I have no choice — today — but to accept those redactions rather than allow potentially irreversible harm to our nation‘s security."
The records were put online at 7:30 p.m. The thousands of field reports, cables and interview summaries from dozens of FBI, CIA and congressional investigators reveal the minutiae of a chase for information that spanned decades and co


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Want to see the ‘secret’ JFK assassination records? Here’s how
Written by Robert Smith × November 20, 2019
If you’ve ever wanted all of the hidden details surrounding the assassination of JFK 54 years ago, just make sure your internet connection is fast when more files finally see the light of day Thursday.
The release by The National Archives and Records Administration consists of 3,810 documents, including 441 formerly withheld in full and 3,369 documents formerly released but with portions redacted.
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Criminal enterprise called the FBI is probing if Jeffrey Epstein’s death was the result of a ‘criminal enterprise,’ prisons chief says
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Don't Mess With Roy Cohn
Roy Cohn was once the most feared lawyer in New York City. A ruthless master of dirty tricks, he smeared the reputations of his political enemies, helped send the Rosenbergs to the electric chair, and had more than one Mafia don on speed dial. But his most enduring legacy is Donald Trump, whom he took under his wing in the 1970s. In Ken Auletta's 1978 Esquire profile, we meet the man who tutored the president in the dark arts of gossip, power, and politics.


For twenty years, Roy exchanged Christmas gifts with FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Bernard Baruch testified as a character witness at his first trial. Gossip columnists Walter Winchell and Leonard Lyons, who did not speak to each other, showered Roy with praise, as did George Sokolsky.




Former special agents who once served their country in the fight against mobsters, terrorists and fraudsters often have second careers in the security or investigation departments of big companies and law firms.

However, jumping into the private sector is not without its pitfalls for one-time G-men.  As much as they are prized assets by corporate America for their training, experience and contacts, the good reputation of these former agents also can be cynically exploited by employers with sharp practices or shady reputations as a cover to deflect any suspicion into wrongdoing.

For example, Assistant Director Louis Nichols -- J. Edgar's No. 2 man -- left the FBI in 1957, and took a plum job making $100,000 a year at Schenley Industries which mob lackey Roy Cohn allegedly secured for him, and Louis Rosensteil, the company's president, was suspected of ties to Genovese mobsters Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello.  And former special agent H. Paul Rico left the Boston field office in 1975 to become security head at World Jai Alai, and then was indicted for his alleged role in a 1981 murder as a tool of Winter Hill boss Whitey Bulger although Rico died in 2004 before the charge against him was resolved.

Indeed, in May 1962 while staying at the Volney Hotel in New York City, Meyer Lansky was recorded on a wire describing how the G-men could be co-opted in the private sector as "racketeers" and the "new mafia":
They're nothing but racketeers, every one of them.  After five years they get out, get on a big corporation's payroll.  Now what happens, you and I . . . let's say I work for IBM.  You came.  They say [redacted] is doing  the same business.  He has no FBI guys working for him.  Pop, they chop his legs off.  They find him with a sweetheart, they find him with this, they find him with that.  This thing's gonna get an investigation.  It's a new mafia.

The potential pitfalls for former agents joining the civilian life came to the forefront recently for U.S. Congressman Michael Grimm, a Republican from Staten Island, NY, who spent a decade as a special agent with the FBI until leaving the agency in 2006.  Grimm then opened a restaurant on the Upper East Side called Healthalicious with partner Bennett Orfaly, and federal prosecutors now allege that Orfaly has personal ties to reputed Gambino capo Anthony "Fat Tony" Morelli who "is serving a 20-year prison sentence for racketeering and extortion in an elaborate tax fraud" as reported by Alison Leigh Cowan for The New York Times:

"Mr. Orfaly maintains constant contact" with Mr. Morelli in prison, [Assistant U.S. Attorney Anthony] Capozzolo told the court, noting that Mr. Orfaly "has visited him and engaged in telephone conversations."

One unidentified source claims that Morelli is "like an uncle" to Orfaly as reported by Mitchel Maddux and Dan Mangan for the New York Post.

Orfaly is not accused of any wrongdoing, and Grimm previously sold his interest in the restaurant and insists he was unware of Orfaly's supposed ties to Morelli.  In the absense of any evidence to the contrary, Grimm should be entitled to the benefit of the doubt on his claims of ignornance.  In any event, many citizens probably are not thrilled with the idea that a special agent who worked undercover assignments targeting the mob after leaving the FBI became involved with a business partner who allegedly has a personal relationship with a reputed mobster.  It's just not the prettiest picture.

Another former agent got employment at a law firm which subsequently was indicted.  Steve Bursey spent 27 years at the FBI, and among his assignments was serving as the contact agent for undercover agent Joe Pistone who infiltrated the Bonanno crime family as Donnie Brasco.  Immediately following his FBI retirement in 1997 Bursey joined the class action law firm Milberg Weiss to head its investigations department.  In 2006 the law firm was indicted by federal prosecutors for an alleged decades-long scheme in which serial plaintiffs were illegally paid kickbacks out of the attorneys' fees for filing their shareholder lawsuits.  Several heavy-weight partners were convicted for their roles and sent to prison, and the firm itself -- now known simply as Milberg LLP -- settled the criminal case by paying a $75 million fine and hiring a compliance monitor for two years according to a Department of Justice press release:  "the settlement with Milberg reflects the seriousness of what was probably the longest-running scheme ever conducted by a law firm," said United States Attorney Thomas P. O’Brien, and "the monetary payment will punish the firm for allowing this conduct to occur."

Among those convicted for their roles in the scheme was the firm's founding partner Mel Weiss, and Bursey wrote a May 1, 2008 letter to the sentencing judge pleading for leniency on behalf of the crooked lawyer which provides the following:

My name is Steve Bursey.  I am a 27 year veteran of the FBI and manage Milberg's




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