FBI - The African Mirror

Apr

2024

FBI concerned about possible coordinated attack in US after Russia massacre

THE FBI is concerned about the possibility of an organized attack in the United States similar to the one that killed scores at a Russian concert hall last month, the bureau's director plans to tell a House of Representatives panel. “Looking back over my career in law enforcement, I’d be hard-pressed to think of a time where so many threats to our public safety and national security were so elevated all at once,” Christopher Wray is set to tell lawmakers during a budget hearing. “But that is the case as I sit here today.” The March 22 attack on a…

Feb

2023

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FBI says Chinese balloon analysis effort is in early stages

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THE FBI has only recovered very limited physical evidence from a suspected Chinese spy balloon shot down into the ocean on Saturday, and it has not yet been able to get enough information to assess its capabilities, senior bureau officials familiar with the operation said. "It's very early for us in this process, and the evidence that has been recovered and brought to the FBI is extremely limited," one of the officials told reporters in a briefing about its role in processing the wreckage of the balloon. Officials said the FBI still did not have access to the majority of…

Aug

2021

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“Hushpuppi” confesses to multi-million fraud

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AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER RAMON Olorunwa Abbas - alias “Hushpuppi”- the Nigerian considered by the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to be one of the world’s high profile fraudsters, has confessed to his crimes, which involves $24-million that was conned out of unsuspecting business people. He is due to be sentenced on October 25 and faces up to 20 years in prison. The confession and conviction of “Hushpuppi” (37) has also led to the arrest of three of his accomplices - Nigerians living in the US - and the suspension of a top Nigerian police officer who allegedly affected an…

Jul

2021

By The African Mirror

FBI ignored tips on Brett Kavanaugh, Senate Democrats

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JAN WOLFE and MARK HOSENBALL NEWLY released materials show the FBI failed to fully investigate sexual misconduct allegations against U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was nominated to the court in 2018, according to seven Democratic senators. The senators, including Sheldon Whitehouse and Chris Coons, said a letter they received from the FBI last month shows the agency gathered over 4,500 tips relating to Kavanaugh without any apparent further action by investigators. "If the FBI was not authorized to or did not follow up on any of the tips that it received from the tip line, it is…

Feb

2021

By The African Mirror

Ghana-based $55-million cyber fraud scam bust

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AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER A joint operation by three US law enforcement agencies have led to the arrest of 6 members of a cyber crimes gang involved in a $55-million money laundering scheme and seized luxury vehicles including two Rolls Royce Cullinans, a Bentley Continental GT as well as a Mercedes Benz G63 AMG. The FBI said the six were arrested in multiple states across the US for laundering proceeds from fraud schemes, targeting victims across the US by a Ghana-based criminal enterprise Those arrested by the FBI are Farouk Appiedu (35), Fred Asante (35), Celvin Freeman (47), Lord Aning (28),…

Feb

2021

By The African Mirror

US missionary jailed for child sex crimes in Kenya

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AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER “A wolf in a sheep’s clothing.” That is how the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigations described missionary Gregory Dow has have been convicted of sex crimes in Kenya and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Dow and his wife set up an orphanage in 2008 and now he has been jailed for abusing underage girls, who were 11,12 and 13 years at the time. He fled to the US in 2017 after the allegations emerged. Dow pleaded guilty in the US to four counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor in a foreign…

Jan

2021

By The African Mirror

FBI warns of armed protests in all 50 US states

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MARK HOSENBALL THE FBI has warned of armed protests being planned for Washington and all 50 U.S. state capitals in the run-up to President-elect Joe Biden's January 20 inauguration, a federal law enforcement source said. Threatened with more violence from outgoing President Donald Trump's supporters following last Wednesday's storming of the U.S. Capitol, the FBI issued warnings for next weekend that run at least until Inauguration Day, the source said. In other steps to safeguard the U.S. capital, the National Guard was authorized to send up to 15,000 troops to Washington, and tourists were barred from visiting the Washington Monument…