Posts tagged with "FBI"

Ohio man charged in foiled plot to kill former President George W. Bush COMMUNITY

Ohio man charged in foiled plot to kill former President George W. Bush

May 27th, 20220 An Iraqi asylum seeker living in Ohio was arrested and charged by federal authorities for  aiding and abetting a failed plot to assassinate former President George W. Bush. According to authorities, Shihab Ahmed Shihab, 52, told an FBI informant in November that he wanted to target Bush because he was “responsible for killing many...
Six charged, including two from Dearborn, with tax conspiracy and wire fraud Crime

Six charged, including two from Dearborn, with tax conspiracy and wire fraud

April 15th, 20220 A federal grand jury in Flint returned an indictment on Wednesday, charging Michael Angelo (Angelo), Hassan Kamal Fayad, Mirna Kamal Fayad, Cory Justin Mann, Thomas Reed Quartz and Rosina Angelo with conspiring to defraud the IRS and other crimes. According to the indictment, from approximately 2011 to 2022, Angelo owned and operated...
Minnesota man arrested after Dearborn mosque threats, awaits charges COMMUNITY

Minnesota man arrested after Dearborn mosque threats, awaits charges

April 14th, 20220 A man suspected of threatening mosques in Metro Detroit has been arrested, officials said. The FBI is investigating threats made by a 60-year-old man who allegedly made statements about blowing up mosques in the Metro area, Dearborn police said in a statement Wednesday. They said state police received information about the threats at...
MLK Day and the legacy of spying on activists Other Voices

MLK Day and the legacy of spying on activists

January 17th, 20220 MLK Day, since being signed into law as a national holiday by President Reagan, has come to symbolize a moment of national reflection on the state of race relations in America. Although Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the end of his life was a staunch champion against militarism and economic exploitation, seminal moments such as his...
CAIR: Federal assistance to local police should be tied to hate crime reporting COMMUNITY

CAIR: Federal assistance to local police should be tied to hate crime reporting

August 31st, 20210 After the release of the FBI’s annual hate crime statistics, a civil rights group is asking the Biden administration to make federal assistance to local law enforcement agencies contingent on their reporting and compiling of hate crime data. The FBI’s latest statistics on hate crimes show the biggest spike since 2008. The report...
Dingell calls for FBI, DHS to audit No-Fly list COMMUNITY

Dingell calls for FBI, DHS to audit No-Fly list

August 23rd, 20211 DEARBORN — U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) has sent a letter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, calling for a complete and thorough audit of the No-Fly and Selectee Lists to ensure innocent American citizens have not been...
U.S. Supreme Court to hear case involving FBI’s spying on California mosques COMMUNITY

U.S. Supreme Court to hear case involving FBI’s spying on California mosques

June 11th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to look at a decade-long class-action case involving the FBI’s use of an informant to spy on several LA and Orange County mosques, the Courthouse News reported Tuesday. For more than a year, the FBI planted an informant in the mosques and instructed him to coerce and gather...
Trial postponed for five men in alleged Governor Whitmer kidnapping plot COMMUNITY

Trial postponed for five men in alleged Governor Whitmer kidnapping plot

February 11th, 20210 GRAND RAPIDS — A trial for five of the men accused of plotting to kidnap Governor Whitmer has been postponed until October. The trial was postponed to give defense lawyers more time to receive and analyze evidence. U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker decided to reschedule the trial from March until Oct. 12 in federal court in...
Paul M. Abbate named FBI deputy director U.S.A

Paul M. Abbate named FBI deputy director

February 6th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. – FBI Director Christopher Wray has named Paul M. Abbate as deputy director. As deputy, he oversees all FBI domestic and international investigative and intelligence activities. Abbate most recently served as the associate deputy director. Abbate joined the FBI as a special agent in 1996 and was assigned to the...
FBI offering $75,000 for information on D.C. pipe bomb suspect Crime

FBI offering $75,000 for information on D.C. pipe bomb suspect

January 21st, 20210 The FBI is offering a public reward for tips that lead to the “location, arrest and conviction” of the person or persons responsible for planting pipe bombs near the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. on Jan 6. The reward is set at $75,000 and was originally set at $50,000. The FBI’s Washington Field Office posted the...
FBI considering No-Fly List for D.C. rioters COMMUNITY

FBI considering No-Fly List for D.C. rioters

January 12th, 20210 WASHINGTON, D.C. — After a mob of supporters of outgoing President Trump broke into the U.S. Capitol Building last Wednesday, the FBI has launched a nationwide investigation into the incident. FBI officials have said they are considering a litany of charges, including conspiracy and sedition, and are relying on a partnership with...
Annual FBI hate crimes report marks 2019 as the "deadliest year on record" COMMUNITY

Annual FBI hate crimes report marks 2019 as the “deadliest year on record”

November 18th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an annual hate crimes report released this week, the FBI announced that 2019 saw a record high number of hate crime murders in the United States. Hate crimes are described by the FBI as an offense “motivated by bias toward race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender and gender...
Attorney general charges local leader of White Supremacist group, “The Base” COMMUNITY

Attorney general charges local leader of White Supremacist group, “The Base”

October 29th, 20200 LANSING — Multiple felony charges have been filed against the self-proclaimed leader and an associate of the national White Supremacist group,  “The Base.” Following an investigation by Michigan State Police and the FBI, the two were found to be linked to a December 2019 incident in Dexter. During this incident, a family was...
U.S. intelligence reports warn of extremist threat around election Elections

U.S. intelligence reports warn of extremist threat around election

September 29th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. (REUTERS) — U.S. security officials are warning that violent domestic extremists pose a threat to the presidential election next month, amid what one official called a “witch’s brew” of rising political tensions, civil unrest and foreign disinformation campaigns. FBI and U.S. Department of Homeland Security...
Republican ex-lawmakers back Biden on first day of Trump convention Elections

Republican ex-lawmakers back Biden on first day of Trump convention

August 24th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. (REUTERS) — More than two-dozen former Republican U.S. lawmakers, including former Senator Jeff Flake, endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president on Monday, the first day of the Republican National Convention, in the latest rebuke of President Trump by members of his own party. The 27 former members...
Trump defends U.S. Postal Service changes as Democrats mount pressure Elections

Trump defends U.S. Postal Service changes as Democrats mount pressure

August 17th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. (REUTERS) — On Monday President Trump denied trying to undermine the Postal Service’s ability to handle a flood of mail-in ballots ahead of the November election, as Democrats prepared to move against changes his administration has set in motion. “No, we’re not tampering,” Trump said in an interview with...
FBI releases official statistics on hate crimes COMMUNITY

FBI releases official statistics on hate crimes

November 17th, 20190 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Bureau of Investigations released its Hate Crime Statistics 2018 report this week. The report is the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s latest compilation about bias motivated incidents throughout the nation. The 2018 data was submitted by 16,039 law enforcement agencies that provided...
FBI's Wray says most domestic terrorism arrests this year involve White supremacy Crime

FBI’s Wray says most domestic terrorism arrests this year involve White supremacy

July 28th, 20190 WASHINGTON, D.C. - FBI Director Christopher Wray said Tuesday that the agency has made about 100 domestic terrorism-related arrests since October, and the majority were tied to White supremacy. ”I will say that a majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we’ve investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call...
Two militia men plead guilty to bombing Minnesota mosque COMMUNITY

Two militia men plead guilty to bombing Minnesota mosque

January 27th, 20190 BLOOMINGTON, Minnesota - Two men have pleaded guilty in federal court to bombing a Minnesota mosque and attempting to bomb a women's health clinic in Illinois. Prosecutors say the two men and another man accused in the case were part of an Illinois militia group that called itself "White Rabbits." The U.S. Justice Department last year...
FBI detains American-born journalist without charge U.S.A

FBI detains American-born journalist without charge

January 17th, 20190 ST. LOUIS, MO — An American-born Iran-based journalist has been detained inside U.S. territories without charge. On Sunday January 13, the FBI took into custody American-born journalist and anchor Marzieh Hashemi, born Melanie Franklin, upon her arrival at St. Louis Lambert International Airport, according to her family and...
FBI: Surge in hate crimes in 2017 the largest since 9/11 COMMUNITY

FBI: Surge in hate crimes in 2017 the largest since 9/11

November 25th, 20180 WASHINGTON — Hate crimes in the United States in 2017 saw the largest increase — to more than 7,000 — since a period immediately after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, new FBI data said Tuesday. The 2017 data is the latest uniform crime reporting compilation of bias-motivated incidents from more than 16,100 U.S. law...
U.S. Appeals Court: Muslim American can sue over no-fly list U.S.A

U.S. Appeals Court: Muslim American can sue over no-fly list

September 21st, 20180 PORTLAND, OR. — On Thursday, Sept. 20, a federal appeals court revived a Muslim American man’s lawsuit accusing the U.S. government of improperly keeping him on its “no-fly list” for about six years. He said the government placed him on the list to coerce him into becoming an FBI informant. Reversing a lower court ruling, the...
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