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ACLU files lawsuit alleging FBI involvement in rendition of US citizen
November 11, 2009
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed suit [complaint, PDF; press release] Tuesday on behalf of US citizen Amir Meshal, alleging that FBI agents were involved in his interrogation and rendition in Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia in 2007. The suit, filed in the US D....... [more]

FBI charges 14 more in Galleon Group insider trading scandal
November 7, 2009
[JURIST] Federal authorities have filed charges [press release] against 14 people in connection with insider trading at the hedge fund company Galleon Group [corporate website], weeks after the arrest [JURIST report] of the company's founder. An investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (....... [more]

FBI director reports on terrorism interrogations at Senate Judiciary hearing
September 17, 2009
[JURIST] FBI Director Robert Mueller [official profile] addressed the FBI's role in leading the new specialized interrogation group to question top terrorist suspects as well as many other topics in a wide ranging oversight hearing [materials; recorded video] before the Senate Judiciary Committee [o....... [more]

FBI report shows decrease in US violent crime for second straight year
September 14, 2009
[JURIST] The 2008 Crime in the US (CIUS) report [materials; report summary] released Monday by the FBI indicates that the level of violent crime in the US dropped by 1.9 percent between 2007 and 2008. Specifically, between 2006 and 2007, the estimated number of forcible rapes dropped by 1.6 percent....... [more]

Counterterrorism still FBI top priority: report
August 20, 2009
[JURIST] Eight years after 9/11 [JURIST news archive], counterterrorism efforts continue to dominate the operations and budget of the FBI [official website], according to a Tuesday report [text] by the New York Times. Since the attacks, the bureau has doubled the number of agents it assigns to count....... [more]

Russia authorities release alleged mob leader wanted by US
July 27, 2009
[JURIST] Russian police on Monday released suspected organized crime leader Semyon Mogilevich [FBI profile] after a court found that prosecutors lacked sufficient evidence to continue holding him. Mogilevich and another man, Vladimir Nekrasov, were arrested [JURIST report] in January 2008. The court....... [more]

Federal agents arrest 44 including politicians in New Jersey corruption probe
July 24, 2009
[JURIST] The FBI arrested and charged 44 people [press release; complaints, PDF] on a variety of conspiracy, extortion, money laundering, and corruption counts Thursday, including several local politicians. The FBI said that the investigation, which began as an investigation of a money laundering ri....... [more]

Federal judge dismisses Hillary Clinton 'Filegate' suit
July 17, 2009
[JURIST] A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a suit against Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton [official profile] for allegedly misusing FBI background records to obtain information on Republican White House employees during Bill Clinton's presidency. US District Judge Royce Lamberth remove....... [more]

FBI head defends mosque investigations
June 9, 2009
[JURIST] FBI Director Robert Mueller [official profile] said Monday that the FBI will continue investigating mosques when there may be evidence or information regarding criminal wrongdoings. Mueller's defense [AP report] of such investigations followed a complaint sent to US Attorney General Eric Ho....... [more]

FBI director says releasing Guantanamo detainees into US could harm national security
May 21, 2009
[JURIST] FBI Director Robert Mueller [official profile; JURIST news archive] told the House Judiciary Committee [hearing schedule] Wednesday that the transfer of Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archives] detainees to the US could pose a threat to national security, even if they remain in maximum securit....... [more]



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