Epstein Secrets

es "FBI Assistant Director William F. Sweeney Jr.," who thanked the NYPD EFTA00148047 detectives who did "outstanding work in this investigation." Sweeney also said the FBI's "partnership with the NYPD is airtight." Online coverage of Spencer's arrest is run by other media outlets, including Fox News

d not have taken this job if I thought that politics would have any influence over prosecutions and investigations." The AP (2/22, Balsamo, Tucker, Jalonick) says Garland, "among Biden's most widely supported nominees" sought to "assure lawmakers that the Justice Department would remain politically inde

lliam F. Sweeney Jr., the head of New York City's FBI office, said Lemke's threats "crossed a bright line." USA Today (1/26, Culver, 12.7M) reports Sweeney said, "The FBI's New York Joint Terrorism Task Force is always on watch, and we act with speed to stop violence - whether the threat comes from wit

s, including Mitch McConnell, moving to dismiss the trial, it makes it pretty clear Mr. Trump will be acquitted next month." The AP (1/26, Mascaro, Jalonick) reports that "while the Republicans did not succeed in ending the trial before it began, the test vote made clear that Trump still has enormous swa

ation was being collected and then the indicted was just recently voted and filed and that is when we were able and prepared to move to arrest her.' Sweeney said that indictment alleges that from 1994 until 1997, Maxwell assisted Epstein in committing crimes against minors. He said she would `recruit, e

litical divisions within the country." COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE Intelligence Chiefs Brief "Gang Of Eight" On Russia Bounty Intelligence. The AP (7/2, Jalonick, Daly) reports that CIA Director Haspel and DNI Ratcliffe gave classified briefings Thursday to "congressional leaders who have demanded more answer

ion with an elaborate, international bank robbery operation that netted more than $30 million over several years." FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Sweeney said in the statement, "The crimes we allege in this indictment read like something straight out of Hollywood fiction. ... The thieves used sophist

the Senate passed a bill" on Thursday "aimed at protecting Asian-Americans from hate crimes, which have soared during the pandemic." The AP (4/22, Jalonick) describes the vote as "a bipartisan denunciation of such violence during the coronavirus pandemic and a modest step toward legislating in a chambe