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Washington (AFP) - The FBI has launched a criminal probe targeting the container ship that crashed into a major road bridge in Baltimore last month, collapsing it and killing six people, US media reported Monday. The Washington Post described it as a "criminal investigation," and cited two unnamed US officials as saying the probe will look "at least in part" at whether the crew knew the ship had serious systems problems when it left the port. In a statement to AFP, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said that as a matter of policy it does not confirm or deny investigations. But it did say its...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A former FBI informant charged with lying about US President Joe Biden and his son Hunter was denied bail by a judge Monday ahead of his trial. Alexander Smirnov, 43, was first arrested two weeks ago and indicted for fabricating claims that Hunter Biden demanded multi-million-dollar bribes from Ukrainian firm Burisma -- on whose board he was serving at the time -- to protect it from an investigation when his father was US vice president. He was released on bail at the time, but re-arrested last week on the same warrant, with his lawyers demanding his immediate release. But ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - An FBI informant charged with lying about US President Joe Biden and his son has been arrested again, just days after being released on bail, his lawyers said in a court filing Thursday. Alexander Smirnov, 43, a dual US and Israeli national, was arrested last week and indicted for fabricating claims that Hunter Biden demanded multi-million-dollar bribes from Ukrainian firm Burisma -- on whose board he was serving at the time -- to protect it from an investigation when his father was US vice president. Earlier this week Smirnov was released by a court in Nevada, over prosecu...
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Washington (AFP) - An FBI informant charged with lying about US President Joe Biden and his son told investigators he received information about Hunter Biden from Russian intelligence associates, prosecutors said Tuesday in a court filing. Alexander Smirnov, 43, a dual US and Israeli national, was arrested last week and indicted for fabricating claims that Biden's son demanded multi-million-dollar bribes from Ukrainian firm Burisma -- on whose board he was serving at the time -- to protect it from an investigation when Biden was vice president. "The misinformation he is spreading is not confin...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - The special counsel probing claims that Hunter Biden used his father's power and prestige to secure millions of dollars in bribes from a Ukrainian firm has charged a one-time FBI informant with lying, according to a federal indictment. Alexander Smirnov, 43, is accused of fabricating claims that the US president's son demanded the money to protect Burisma -- on whose board he was serving at the time -- from an investigation. Smirnov's evidence has been touted by Republicans as proof that the Bidens were collectively involved in a criminal enterprise, which some in the party...
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New York (AFP) - A dozen victims of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein sued the FBI on Wednesday, accusing the agency of failing to adequately investigate allegations against the accused sex offender. The twelve complainants, all anonymized in court documents as "Jane Does", claim that the United States' leading national law enforcement agency "failed to adequately investigate the abuse" and ignored Epstein's sexual interest in underage girls. "For over two decades, the Federal Bureau of Investigation permitted Jeffrey Epstein to sex traffic and sexually abuse scores of children and young wom...
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Washington (AFP) - FBI Director Christopher Wray urged Congress on Tuesday to renew a law authorizing US agencies to spy on non-Americans around the world, arguing that allowing it to lapse would be equivalent to "unilateral disarmament." Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), as it is known, is scheduled to expire at the end of December. Wray, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Section 702 is a vital tool used by law enforcement to fight terrorism, cybercrime and drug trafficking. "Stripping the FBI of its 702 authorities would be a form of unilat...
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New York (AFP) - FBI agents seized the New York mayor's cell phones and other devices, his campaign lawyer said Friday, in an apparent escalation of a federal investigation into campaign fundraising. The seizure appears to be part of a corruption investigation into whether Eric Adams' 2021 campaign conspired with Turkey's government and others. "On Monday night, the FBI approached the mayor after an event. The Mayor immediately complied with the FBI's request and provided them with electronic devices," said Boyd Johnson, the campaign's attorney, in a statement to AFP. "The mayor has not been ...
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Washington (AFP) - Violent crime decreased in the United States last year to pre-pandemic levels while property crime increased sharply, the FBI said in a report released on Monday. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, in an annual report, said violent crime nationwide fell by 1.7 percent in 2022 compared with the previous year. Murder and manslaughter cases were down 6.1 percent after rising in the previous two years, the FBI said, and the number of reported rape cases dropped 5.4 percent. Aggravated assault decreased by 1.1 percent, but robbery was up by 1.3 percent. Property crimes -- mainl...
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Washington (AFP) - Robert Hanssen, the notorious FBI double agent who secretly fed Russia some of America's deepest secrets in the 1980s and 1990s, died in a top-security prison Monday, prison officials said. Offering himself to Soviet military intelligence in 1985, Hanssen traded government secrets and the identities of US moles in the Soviet and Russian governments in exchange for diamonds and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Because he was in the FBI's crucial New York counterintelligence department, tasked with chasing down foreign spies, he was able to cover his tracks as he ostensibly i...
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