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CNN Business reports: The FBI says America has a “pig butchering” problem. And it’s costing victims millions of dollars. “We’re not talking about what’s going on at farms,” said Frank Fisher, public affairs specialist at the bureau’s Albuquerque division. “We’re talking about a cryptocurrency investment scam that is sweeping the country.” The term pig butchering refers to an unsuspecting victim …

NBC News reports: A man who carried what appeared to be a hammer at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, got into a standoff Thursday with the FBI for hours before special agents arrested him for his role in the riot, law enforcement officials said. The FBI arrested Eric Christie on Thursday after several hours in which he refused …

The New York Times reports: A Libyan intelligence operative charged in the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, was arrested by the F.B.I. and being extradited to the United States to face prosecution for one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in American history, officials said on Sunday. The arrest of the operative, Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud, was …

The Associated Press reports: Authorities said the person who would later kill five at a Colorado LGBTQ nightclub was on the FBI’s radar a day before being arrested for threatening to kill family members, but agents closed out the case just weeks later. The disclosure by the FBI to The Associated Press creates a new timeline for when law enforcement …

CNN reports:   A growing number of reported threats to power infrastructure are under investigation following attacks on substations in the South and on the West Coast as electricity becomes a more critical need in winter. Even before the gun assaults Saturday in Moore County, North Carolina, wiped out power for days to thousands, at least five electricity substations in …

The Washington Post reports: Lawyers for former president Donald Trump found at least two items marked classified after an outside team hired by Trump searched a storage unit in West Palm Beach, Fla., used by the former president, according to people familiar with the matter. Those items were turned over to the FBI, according to those people, who like others …

The Daily Beast reports: North Carolina insurance salesman and semi-pro musician Stephen Jike Williams, who performs simply as Jike Williams, allegedly vowed to execute fact checkers for the “defamation and slander” of the ex-president. When the FBI showed up at his door, Williams threatened the life of a female agent assigned to investigate, according to a criminal complaint first obtained …

NBC News reports: U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are gearing up for a panoply of potential threats to the election, including extremist violence, cyberattacks, social media disinformation and voter intimidation. “I think we’re as prepared as we possibly could be,” one Justice Department official said, while adding that despite months of planning and tabletop exercises, people are “anxious and …

The New York Times reports: Hours after issuing a rare warning about a security threat at New Jersey synagogues, the FBI identified a man who holds “radical extremist views,” a federal official told faith leaders Friday morning. “He no longer poses a threat to the community at this time,” James E. Dennehy, the special agent in charge of the F.B.I.’s …

Law & Crime reports: A federal judge in Minnesota appointed by Donald Trump on Thursday rejected a motion for a temporary restraining order which was filed by local counsel and self-described constitutional consultant Alan Dershowitz on behalf of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. Like the Trump case, the judge noted, plaintiff Lindell is seeking return of property as DOJ conducts an …

Bloomberg News reports: Federal law enforcement officers scoured social media to identify threats to FBI buildings and agents and issued internal warnings about possibly armed protests in the days after the FBI searched former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, according to emails and other records obtained by Bloomberg. Intelligence officers at the Federal Protective Service, an arm of the US …

Posted last night to Trump’s Truth Social account: So now the FBI & Biden Department of ‘Justice’ leakers are going to spend Millions of Dollars, & vast amounts of Time & Energy, to appeal the Order on the ‘Raid of Mar-a-Lago Document Hoax,’ by a brilliant and courageous Judge whose words of wisdom rang true throughout our Nation, instead of …

The Washington Post reports: A document describing a foreign government’s military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities, was found by FBI agents who searched former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and private club last month, according to people familiar with the matter, underscoring concerns among U.S. intelligence officials about classified material stashed in the Florida property. Some of the seized documents …

The Associated Press reports: A newly unsealed FBI document about the investigation at Mar-a-Lago not only offers new details about the probe but also reveals clues about the arguments former President Donald Trump’s legal team intends to make. A May 25 letter from one of his lawyers, attached as an exhibit to the search affidavit, advances a broad view of …

From the far-right site American Greatness: A lawyer for several of the January 6 political prisoners says his clients are being “tortured” by a system of “anarcho-tyranny” that considers them to be a “subhuman, sub-constitutional class of people.” In an interview this week, Joseph D. McBride said he is building a case to sue the federal government for millions of …

Mediaite reports: Though he was careful not to use the word, former President Donald Trump appeared to call for the rank and file of the FBI to revolt against its leadership over the search and seizure of classified documents from his Mar-a-Lago home and possible looming criminal indictment. Despite the facts of the case, in a TruthSocial post from Sunday …

“Publicly, what they’re saying is this is rallying Republicans to Trump’s defense. This makes it more likely that he will run for president, more likely that he will win the Republican nomination. Campaigning against this political action by the FBI and the DOJ. “Privately, they are really concerned. And one of the big concerns here is that Trump has nobody …

The New York Times reports: A federal judge in Florida gave notice on Saturday of her “preliminary intent” to appoint an independent arbiter, known as a special master, to conduct a review of the highly sensitive documents that were seized by the F.B.I. this month during a search of Mar-a-Lago. In an unusual action that fell short of a formal …

Slate reports: Even with about half of its 38 pages blacked out for security reasons, the Justice Department’s affidavit to get a warrant to search Donald Trump’s residency at Mal-a-Largo is more damning than many of the former president’s critics expected. The affidavit, written on Aug. 5 and released by a judge on Friday, reported that 15 boxes of documents, …

Chicago’s CBS affiliate reports: Two brothers from Illinois have been charged with joining the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, one of them accused of pushing a police officer, and the other accused of pinning down an officer with a metal barricade. Daniel Leyden, 55, of Chicago, is charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement officers with a …