Category: FBI News Review

How Arnold Mesches Turned His FBI Surveillance Files Into Eerily Prescient Works of Art
The Intercept
Using a Freedom of Information Act request, Mesches obtained a box filled with his own 760-page FBI file, discovering that from 1945 to 1972, he’d been carefully watched. Throughout his life as an acclaimed painter as well as an activist, the FBI had…

FBI crackdown on college basketball corruption no slam dunk
The News-Press
At first glance, the FBI’s crackdown on the corruption that exists in big-time college basketball seems like a very good thing. At second and third glance, many doubts exist. Whether involved in the sport, covering the sport or fans of the sport …
The FBI’s bad news for basketballAnniston Star
House Energy and Commerce Committee Requests Hearing on FBI NCAA ProbeBleacher Report
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NCAA Basketball FBI Investigation: What comes next
whnt.com
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – It’s the biggest scandal to hit college sports in decades. The FBI is investigating multiple basketball coaches and programs on charges of receiving bribes, one of those in Auburn Associate Head Coach Chuck Person. It appears, more …
Why the FBI is getting involved in NCAA sportsAL.com
Auburn coach Bruce Pearl: Conduct in FBI complaint ‘unacceptable’Opelika Auburn News
Chuck Person, With NCAA and NBA Pedigree, Runs Afoul of FBINew York Times
Deadspin –USA TODAY –CBSSports.com
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FBI: Armored vehicle driver shot would-be robber after sledgehammer attack in Little Village
Chicago Tribune
As a man tried to rob an armored vehicle employee by hitting him in the back with a sledgehammer, the armored truck employee shot and critically wounded the would-be robber, authorities said. The driver for Garda armored car services was making a …
FBI: Armored car driver shoots attempted robber after being hit with sledgehammer in Little VillageWLS-TV
Armored vehicle driver shoots, injures would-be robber in Little VillageWGN-TV
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FBI Docs Show The NCAA’s Grisly Sausage Factory At Work In Arizona
Deadspin
Paying for a top college basketball recruit can be expensive. Documents from the FBI’s investigation into the shadowy world of college basketball uncover a web of corruption, and no single transaction is more interesting than the general negotiations …
Arizona recruits Brandon Williams, Shareef O’Neal appear committed to Wildcats amid FBI probeArizona Daily Star
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Justice allows Senate panel to interview FBI officials on Comey firing
CNN
(CNN) The Justice Department has agreed to let the Senate judiciary committee interview two senior FBI officials who could provide firsthand accounts about the circumstances around the firing of former FBI Director James Comey, potentially resolving a …
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Trump Is No-Show For FBI Director Chris Wray’s Installation
NPR
Chris Wray has been working as the new FBI director since he was confirmed by the Senate in August. Wray was picked by President Trump to succeed James Comey, whom Trump fired in May. The decision to fire Comey led to the appointment of special …
FBI ceremony notable for its no-shows amid Russia probeWashington Post
FBI To Senate: We’re Investigating 1000 White Supremacists. Senate To FBI: That’s All?The Root
FBI Chief: Agency Has 1000 Open Domestic Terrorism InvestigationsTIME
Federal Bureau of Investigation (press release) (blog) –USA TODAY –Las Vegas Review-Journal –The Hill
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Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation team loses 2nd FBI veteran
ABC News
Special counsel Robert Mueller has now lost a second official that he brought in from the FBI to help investigate Russia’s alleged meddling in last year’s presidential election, ABC News has learned. The latest FBI veteran to leave, Lisa Page, was …
Trump skips ceremony for FBI director amid Russia investigationPolitico
Special counsel attorney departs for FBICBS News
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UNC, Duke, NC State say they have not been contacted by NCAA or FBI about college scandal
News & Observer
NCSU spokesman Fred Demarest said there had been no contact between anyone at NCSU with federal investigators or the NCAA. Robbi Pickeral Evans, associate athletic director at UNC, said Friday the school has not been contacted by the FBI or the …
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FBI delivers subpoenas to upper Wichita police ranks, source says
Wichita Eagle
FBI agents recently served subpoenas to at least a dozen Wichita police personnel, a source says. FBI agents went to the Patrol North, Patrol East and Patrol West police bureau stations, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The source …