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Federal Bureau of Investigation

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2012

    Rare Wine Dealer Arrested for Selling Counterfeit Burgundy

    The FBI has entered the the esoteric world of rare wine collecting, arresting a Los Angeles collector who was influential enough to hike up international prices of wine, and accusing him of fraud.

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    Are The Anonymous, LulzSec Arrests a Win for the FBI?

    News broke earlier today that five individuals supposedly associated with Anonymous have been charged for attacks on websites ranging from the CIA to Strafor, and some are saying that it's a triumph for the FBI's fight against the hackivist collective. And because the FBI might have gotten intel f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2012

    Warning: You Might Be a Terrorist If You Buy Your Morning Coffee With Cash

    Bad news, New Yorkers: every time you buy one dollar coffee from that dude in the food cart outside your office, someone is secretly wondering if you're a terrorist in disguise. That's because under new "Suspicious Activity Reporting" guidelines from the FBI, paying for small purchases in cash sho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2011

    The FBI's Village Voice Files: 'It Is a Well-Known Hippie Paper'

    ​The FBI has released a cache of documents about the Village Voice dating from 1969 to 1997 that are now available under FOIA. Bomb threats! Contras! Secret lists! Ed Koch vs. J. Edgar Hoover! First up: were Village Voice subscribers in the '70s added to a creepy secret government list? A le ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2011

    One Glove Bandit Strikes Again, Robs Third NYC Bank

    FBI ​The latest bandit in town is the "One Glove Bandit," named thusly because his gimmick -- and every criminal needs a good gimmick these days -- is that he wears a single glove, à la Michael Jackson. So far, he's robbed three NYC banks, the latest being a Chase Bank in Flushing yesterday morni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2011

    Anonymous Members Raided by FBI; Hacker Group Claims to Have News Corp. Emails

    ​A day after the online sect LulzSecurity pulled their own hack on Rupert Murdoch, members of the most the widely-known hacking collective Anonymous, from which LulzSec spun off, have been raided by the FBI. (There doesn't seem to be a direct connection other than the media attention currently ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2011

    Stun Gun Found on Plane Headed For New Jersey

    ​The FBI is looking into a stun gun found on a JetBlue flight from Boston to Newark, New Jersey, but a spokesman says it probably wasn't for a terrorist attack. That seems obvious considering it was found only after the plane was emptied, as the crew was cleaning and pulled it from a seat-back ... More >>

  • Columns

    March 30, 2011

    Beware: Ray Kelly for Next FBI Director?

    ​The FBI is looking into a stun gun found on a JetBlue flight from Boston to Newark, New Jersey, but a spokesman says it probably wasn't for a terrorist attack. That seems obvious considering it was found only after the plane was emptied, as the crew was cleaning and pulled it from a seat-back ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    To Get in the Mob, You Have to Get Nude

    ​The Mafia is always one step ahead of the rest of us. This is how they operate. We've all seen it in Goodfellas, right? Thus, when FBI agents started sneaking in and infiltrating mob ranks wearing wires and hoping to get the needed dirt to bust them, the Mafia thought of a solution: To get in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2011

    Disney Cruise Line Worker Missing at Sea

    ​A Disney Cruise Liner that left from Los Angeles on Sunday is reporting that a crew member on "The Disney Wonder" has gone missing. The crew realized that the unidentified worker was missing on Tuesday when he didn't show up for his morning shift. The boat docked Wednesday in Puerto Vallarta, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    The Bank Robbery That Would Become 'Dog Day Afternoon'

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 31, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 35 Littlejohn & the mob: Saga of a heist By Arthur Bell Tuesday, August 22. Home about 10 p.m. A message from a friend on my cassette phone unit. "Just heard a couple of homosexuals are holding up a bank ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    J. Edgar Hoover Called Us Liars: Yes, We're Thrilled!

    ​J. Edgar Hoover had his FBI eye on Runnin' Scared in 1969, just-released Teddy Kennedy files reveal. In fact, he called us liars, the greatest blurb quote we've ever garnered.

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    Terrorists Are Officially Just Fucking With Us Now

    ​The FBI is warning of a possible new terror tactic: per ABC News, a "battle of suspicious bags" is being encouraged on a jihadist website. The bags, while suspicious, might actually be filled with harmless items like water bottles, or socks -- not with bombs.

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2009

    Leave Michael Jackson Alone!

    ​All right, he diddled young boys. And now it turns out, thanks to the FBI dossier, that he made strange noises overnight with a PYT and he also created a fascinating video extravaganza called "All Boy Anthology." So what! He danced really nice and I liked the way his nose never got in the wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2009

    Ending the Day With 333 Pages of Michael Jackson Sex Crime Investigation

    ​Sometimes one must just bow to the bounteous fruits of the Freedom of Information Act, a request via which has led the FBI to unveil their epic file on Michael Jackson, wherein the twin salient facts relevant to the law--the threats and stalkers and extortion schemes that accrue to the very, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2009

    FBI raid on G20 Twitter anarchist seizes mercury, ammunition, and pictures of communists

    U.S. District Court Judge Dora Irizarry has halted FBI examination of materials seized in a Thursday raid on the Queens home of Elliot M. Madison, who was arrested outside Pittsburgh during the G20 Summit for allegedly using social media to help protesters avoid police. The FBI is said to have conf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2009

    Some Question Jihad Qualifications of Synagogue Bomb Plot Morons

    While the four losers who wanted to blow up Riverdale synagogues -- whose conspiracy was "played out on a veritable soundstage of hidden cameras and secret microphones," per the Times -- continue to grab scary headlines, some are suggesting that they were just pathetic mooks who got grifted by an ov ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2009

    No Mob Bones About It

    The FBI has given up -- at least for now -- digging for old wiseguy bones at a mob burial ground on Long Island. The FeeBees spent three days this week shoveling away at a spot in East Farmingdale where a tipster had told them more bodies were buried -- to no avail. Last fall, spade work by the b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2008

    FBI Spied on Pulitzer-Winning Times Scribe

    The FBI has given up -- at least for now -- digging for old wiseguy bones at a mob burial ground on Long Island. The FeeBees spent three days this week shoveling away at a spot in East Farmingdale where a tipster had told them more bodies were buried -- to no avail. Last fall, spade work by the b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2008

    Daily Flog: Remembering the 9/11, Bush disasters; waiting for Lehman's final collapse

    The FBI has given up -- at least for now -- digging for old wiseguy bones at a mob burial ground on Long Island. The FeeBees spent three days this week shoveling away at a spot in East Farmingdale where a tipster had told them more bodies were buried -- to no avail. Last fall, spade work by the b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2008

    FBI Seeks Moles to Infiltrate the Minneapolis RNC: Report

    The FBI has given up -- at least for now -- digging for old wiseguy bones at a mob burial ground on Long Island. The FeeBees spent three days this week shoveling away at a spot in East Farmingdale where a tipster had told them more bodies were buried -- to no avail. Last fall, spade work by the b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2008

    Manmade Explosive Damages Times Square Recruiting Station

    The FBI has given up -- at least for now -- digging for old wiseguy bones at a mob burial ground on Long Island. The FeeBees spent three days this week shoveling away at a spot in East Farmingdale where a tipster had told them more bodies were buried -- to no avail. Last fall, spade work by the b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2008

    Hunter Students Turn Away FBI-Sponsored Corporate Meetup

    The FBI has given up -- at least for now -- digging for old wiseguy bones at a mob burial ground on Long Island. The FeeBees spent three days this week shoveling away at a spot in East Farmingdale where a tipster had told them more bodies were buried -- to no avail. Last fall, spade work by the b ... More >>

  • News

    February 5, 2008

    Year of the Rats

    How the FBI’s terror informants brought down a Bronx jazz musician

  • News

    March 14, 2006

    Moussaoui's Guilt: Less Profound Than the FBI's Own Negligence?

    How the FBI’s terror informants brought down a Bronx jazz musician

  • News

    February 21, 2006

    Libertad? Maybe

    Puerto Rican independence activists rally 'round an FBI crackdown

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2005

    Morning Report 7/14/05
    Muffled No Longer, Rowley Runs for Congress

    Puerto Rican independence activists rally 'round an FBI crackdown

  • News

    June 21, 2005

    FBI Turned Loose

    Privacy rights may disappear if a new Senate Intelligence Committee bill passes

  • News

    June 7, 2005

    Hijacking the Facts

    FBI worked hard to cover up a 9-11 cover-up—and then hide it some more

  • News

    May 31, 2005

    Felt's Goon-Squad Past

    In his day job, Deep Throat specialized in smears and illegal break-ins

  • News

    March 1, 2005

    Lost in Translation

    Will a former FBI translator finally get to tell us what she knows about 9-11?

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2004

    Information Highway Robbery

    Will a former FBI translator finally get to tell us what she knows about 9-11?

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2004

    Indymedia Is Turned Off by the FBI. For Real.

    Will a former FBI translator finally get to tell us what she knows about 9-11?

  • News

    October 5, 2004

    Pols Kowtow to the FBI

    Will a former FBI translator finally get to tell us what she knows about 9-11?

  • News

    September 14, 2004

    Agents of Obstruction

    Will a former FBI translator finally get to tell us what she knows about 9-11?

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2004

    Classified Info

    Will a former FBI translator finally get to tell us what she knows about 9-11?

  • News

    July 6, 2004

    Speechless

    Ashcroft again screws down the lid on whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds

  • News

    July 6, 2004

    The Letter

    The crux of the allegations, in the words of Edmonds's lawyers

  • News

    May 18, 2004

    The Reflective Rudy

    Giuliani memo reveals plan to give Cheney a heart attack

  • News

    May 11, 2004

    Who Knew?

    The 9-11 Commission will face towering questions in visit to the city

  • News

    April 6, 2004

    FBI Whistle-Blowers Go Unheard

    9-11 Commission disregards survivor families' interests

  • News

    December 9, 2003

    J. Edgar Hoover Back at the 'New' FBI

    Classified FBI Bulletin Reveals Tactics at Protests

  • News

    April 8, 2003

    Throwing the Book at Us

    FBI Snoops at Libraries

  • News

    July 9, 2002

    Remembering Why We Are Americans

    Who's That Next to Us at the Meeting?

  • News

    May 28, 2002

    The FBI's Magic Lantern

    Ashcroft Can Be in Your Computer

  • News

    May 28, 2002

    U.S. Ignored Warnings From French

    Ashcroft Can Be in Your Computer

  • News

    May 21, 2002

    Long Arms of the Law

    Ever Bigger FBI Flails at the Enemy Within

  • News

    February 12, 2002

    J. Edgar Hoover Lives!

    FBI Knocking at Your Door

  • News

    December 4, 2001

    Burglars With Badges

    The Return of 'Black Bag Jobs'

  • News

    November 6, 2001

    Outside Chance

    Meet the Thinkers Who'd Help Uncle Sam—If Only He'd Bring Them In

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