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Ex-FBI head indicted for helping oligarch duck sanctions helped trigger 'Russiagate'
Charles McGonigal was among the first FBI officials to learn that a Trump adviser told a diplomat that Russia had "political dirt."
Ex-FBI lawyer pleads guilty to falsifying documents in Russia probe
Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith pleaded guilty on Wednesday to falsifying documents used to monitor 2016 Trump campaign aide Carter Page during a hearing in federal court in Washington. “At...
Ex-FBI lawyer will plead guilty to falsifying Russia probe doc
Kevin Clinesmith will plead guilty to falsifying an e-mail that the CIA used to justify a 2017 wiretap on Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser.
City offers millions to settle suits of prosecutor's illegal wiretap targets
New York City is offering millions of dollars to settle lawsuits filed by the targets of illegal wiretaps set up by a former Brooklyn prosecutor who tried to spy on...
Lawsuits against former Brooklyn prosecutor who wiretapped cop, colleague settled
A disgraced former Brooklyn prosecutor who did time in federal prison for running illegal wiretaps to spy on a love interest at the NYPD and a colleague has settled lawsuits...
NJ woman 'bugged' child's Minnie Mouse doll to spy on ex-husband
She's all ears! A New Jersey woman allegedly bugged her daughter's Minnie Mouse toy in order to spy on her ex-husband, police said Thursday. Heather Bamford, 33, is accused of...
Mobsters are still quoting 'The Godfather,' wiretapped calls show
Mobsters are still quoting "The Godfather" nearly 50 years after the Mafia masterpiece came out, according to reputed Colombo capo Joseph Amato's wiretapped phone calls. Amato, 60, was allegedly giving...
Ex-prosecutor who wiretapped love interest claims she can't be sued
An ex-prosecutor imprisoned for illegally wiretapping a colleague and a cop she suspected of having an affair is arguing she can't be sued just because the scandal became water cooler...
Ex-prosecutor who wiretapped love interest facing additional lawsuits
A former Brooklyn prosecutor is facing even more lawsuits for using her office to illegally wiretap conversations between a reputed love interest and a fellow prosecutor. Tara Lenich has already...
Trump blasts NBC over erroneous report on Cohen wiretap
President Trump on Friday slammed NBC News over its erroneous report that the feds were eavesdropping on his personal lawyer — saying the Peacock Network’s “sources probably don’t exist.” “NBC...
Giuliani was right: Cohen's calls weren't tapped by feds
Rudolph Giuliani cast doubt Thursday on a report that the feds wiretapped President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen— and he was right. Giuliani blasted NBC's reporting several hours before it...
Cohen's calls were monitored by feds — but not wiretapped
Contrary to an earlier report, NBC News said Thursday afternoon that the feds monitored -- but did not wiretap -- phones used by President Trump’s personal attorney. The network corrected...
Alleged de Blasio briber in wiretap: ‘I don’t know anything’
The prosecution’s star witness against former Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano was caught on an FBI wiretap telling a pal, “I don’t know anything about any politicians,” according to a...
Ex-assistant DA who wiretapped NYPD love interest gets year in jail
A brokenhearted former prosecutor canned from the Brooklyn DA’s office for illegally ordering wiretaps and search warrants to eavesdrop and read text messages of an ex lover and his new...
Feds have troves of taped phone calls in NCAA corruption scandal
Prosecutors handling the corruption case of NCAA Division-I basketball coaches accused of bribery have collected hundreds of hours of secretly taped phone calls, it emerged on Wednesday. Manhattan federal prosecutor...
It's time for Power to come clean about her 'unmasking' requests
The number is so large that it explodes everything we were led to believe about how tightly-controlled our government’s surveillance programs are. The number is 260, and that’s how many...
How the Antifa won at Berkeley and other comments
From the right: Yes, Shapiro Spoke — But Antifa Won When conservative commentator Ben Shapiro was allowed to appear last week at UC-Berkeley in the face of violent left-wing threats,...
Manafort wiretap revelations give Trump supporters new ammunition
Reports that federal authorities wiretapped his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort only bolster the president’s claim that the Obama administration was listening in at Trump Tower, supporters of the commander...
Wiretaps may prove Trump right — and that's absolutely terrifying
Over the years, a curious habit has taken hold at the United Nations. A body designed to strengthen the best of humanity has too often become a font of doublespeak...
FBI allegedly wiretapped Paul Manafort before, after election
Federal agents wiretapped the phone of President Trump’s former campaign chair Paul Manafort before and after the 2016 election, according to a report Monday. The wiretaps — which came before...