#FBI

#FBI

A former Russian diplomat linked to a sanctions-evasion scandal involving one of the FBI's top former counter-intelligence agents and a notorious Russian oligarch was sentenced to two months in jail on charges of lying to US law enforcement. Sergei Shestakov's sentencing closes a chapter in a case that both embarrassed the FBI and also shone a new spotlight on Oleg Deripaska, a Kremlin-connected billionaire who has long been on the FBI's radar screen.

FBI agent Scott Payne served 28 years in law enforcement, including going undercover in violent neo-Nazi cells, the Ku Klux Klan, and outlaw motorcycle gangs.

A federal manhunt is under way for anyone involved in the assassination of the conservative commentator and Trump ally. The FBI office in Salt Lake City, Utah, has posted two images of a person of interest in the killing of Charlie Kirk, a conservative American activist and ally of United States President Donald Trump. Kirk was speaking at a debate at Utah Valley University when authorities say a shooter fired

A Salisbury man pleaded not guilty Tuesday after allegedly making bomb threats to an Everett city councilor, according to The Boston Globe. The Boston office of the FBI contacted Salisbury police on Tuesday morning regarding social media threats of firearm and explosive use, Salisbury police said. Salisbury police and the Northeastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council collaborated to arrest the suspect around 12:43 p.m. that day.

"There's a good chance this espionage campaign has stolen information from nearly every American," Michael Machtinger, deputy assistant director for the FBI's cyber division, told The Register.

Authorities arrested 31-year-old Yonston Vazquez on suspicion of fatally shooting two people at about 6:45 a.m. on April 27, 2024 at a La Quinta Inn in Livermore, police said. Police previously alleged Vazquez killed his longtime girlfriend, Lizabeth Murillo-Rodriguez, 26 and Christopher Vera, 21, who was in a hotel room with Murillo-Rodriguez when they were shot. The killings marked Livermore's first two homicides of 2024.

Late last year, after Mr. Trump tapped Kash Patel, a podcaster with scant law enforcement experience, to be F.B.I. director, his aides approached Ms. Pirro about becoming his deputy.