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POPSgreen-card marriage scam To cover up the scam, some obtained driver's licenses under aliases before marrying. Camarillo and others prepared fake divorce decrees, tax returns, birth certificates and Social Security numbers cards. The documents helped fool immigration officials, who didn't necessarily verify that they were legitimate, Bleil said. The scam began to unravel after an informant told U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement about Camarillo in July 2004. When Olga Hernandez and her husband went to the Citizenship and Immigration Services office in 2005 for an interview, the couple were placed in separate rooms. Discrepancies surfaced during questioning, and eventually Hernandez broke. She told officers she'd just been just trying to help a friend and withdrew the petition for a green card.
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POPS Mafia, Violent Criminals Turn to Medicare Fraud
Some pay homeless people on Los Angeles' Skid Row for Medicare or Social Security numbers to use in fake billing invoices. Others intimidate elderly victims to use their Medicare numbers, federal authorities say. Most Medicare schemes are based in cities such as Miami, Los Angeles, Detroit and Houston. And rather than building an elaborate hierarchy like the Mafia or other gangs, many Medicare con artists use common street criminals to recruit patients and doctors, authorities said. A Medicare scammer could easily net at least $25,000 a day while risking a relatively modest 10 years in prison if convicted on a single count. A cocaine dealer could take weeks to make that amount while risking up to life in prison. "Building a Medicare fraud scam is far safer than dealing in crack or dealing in stolen cars, and it's far more lucrative," said Lewis Morris, lead attorney at the Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general's office.
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POPSFox News Has Hired A Supporter of Convicted Cop-Killer As An"Analyst" and "Contributor" and "started a literacy project that uses hip-hop culture to increase school engagement and reading skills among high school students." It also says that he works with the ACLU Drug Reform Project, "focusing on drug informant policy." The ACLU favors legalization of all drugs. James Pera, a retired San Francisco Police Sergeant who saw first-hand the violence of the BLA and the Weather Underground, asked, "Why does O'Reilly pander to this tool of the left? I don't know. If they can bash the Obama Administration for not vetting left-wing radical Van Jones, shouldn’t they explain how Marc Lamont Hill was hired and who hired him?
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POPSTerror Plot to Blow Up Federal Courthouse in Springfield is Foiled Federal authorities say they caught on to Finton early in his planning process when he contacted a federal informant and asked how he could become a fighter for the jihad. They say Finton also wrote a letter to John Walker Lindh, the California man who went to Afghanistan to fight with the Taliban.
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POPSTime-Line of The Terror Probe _ Sept. 9: FBI agents see Zazi drive away from his home in Aurora, Colo., in a rented car. _ Sept. 10: Zazi arrives in New York, more than 1,600 miles away, and stays at a home in Queens. He is stopped by police on the George Washington Bridge_and consents to a random search of his vehicle for drugs. He was allowed to leave. Meanwhile, New York City police detectives meet with Ahmad Wais Afzali, whom they've used as a source before. They show him photos of Zazi and others, and Afzali says he recognizes Zazi. _ On or around Sept. 11: Zazi and his father, Mohammed Wali Zazi, of Aurora, Colo., talk with Afzali by phone about what authorities asked Afzali. Later, Najibullah Zazi tells Afzali he feels like he's being watched. _ Sept. 11: Zazi's rental car is towed for a parking violation, according to Zazi's attorney, Arthur Folsom. FBI agents search the car and find a laptop with an image of nine pages of handwritten notes on how to make explosives, detonators and fuses.
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POPSTerror Suspects' Failed Queens U-Haul Truck Bid The truck rental bid failed when none of the men could produce a valid credit card. All refused to surrender the identification needed to pay cash, the manager of the Flushing U-Haul said. A team of FBI agents spent 10 hours Thursday combing through the Queens truck rental business. "We all feel very lucky right now," U-Haul manager Robert Larson told The News. When the FBI arrived, Larson said, "I was wondering, 'Where is Ashton Kutcher to tell me I've been punked?'" By the time the agents left, "I realized this is crazy, this is real, it's not a joke," Larson said. The feds turned up at the U-Haul in Jamaica around 11 a.m. Thursday as authorities continued tailing and interviewing suspects linked to the reputed Denver cell. At least three Afghan men - including Ahmad Afzali, a Queens imam identified by a U-Haul employee as one of the would-be renters - were questioned in New York by FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, sources said.
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POPSNajibullah Zazi Admitted Receiving 'Weapons and Explosives' Training From al-Qaeda The FBI and NYPD grew alarmed that Zazi and his possible co-conspirators might be planning an imminent attack when they found backpacks and cell phones in an apartment. They also learned that Afzali and other Zazi associates tried to rent a 26-foot U-Haul truck the day before Zazi arrived in Queens. "The FBI is investigating several individuals in the United States, Pakistan and elsewhere, relating to a plot to detonate improvised explosive devices in the United States," the Justice Department revealed Sunday. Najibullah Zazi, whose high-profile 28 hours of voluntary questioning last week by prosecutors in Denver broke off suddenly on Saturday, told probers he was trained by Al Qaeda in August 2008 at a camp in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas, the government charged. A laptop found in Zazi's rental car, which the NYPD seized last weekend, contained images of handwritten bomb-making notes, the FBI said. Zazi e-mailed the notes to himself using an account . .
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POPS Terror in America What I want to know is whether this administration is willing to pull all the information possible out of these suspects. Because one thing that might happen is the remaining individuals or cells accelerate their plans and execute some attacks and kill scores of Americans. Then America will question this administration and the naive far left like they have never been questioned before.
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POPSJoel McHale I love this guy on Talk Soup! I didn't realize he had so much going on, looking forward to his upcoming projects, especially The Informant!
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POPSAmericans are being set up
All his hate-mongering should create enough hatred among some duped followers so they would become violent, riot, murder politicians or ordinary African or Jewish Americans. The FBI then would react on this “hatred”, and the new American hate-crime bill would give them the power to arrest everybody in the citizens´opposition, even those who are non-violent, even those who are not racist at all, but are opposed to the current corruption in the political and economic system. This isn´t a new tactic, obviously. Under COINTELPRO in the 1960s and early 70s, the FBI used a variety of dirty tricks against its targets including wiretapping and assassination — as well as the use of agents provocateurs — in coordination with state and local police… The FBI, acting as the establishment’s political secret police, continues to undermine political movements the elite consider dangerous and a threat to their control and influence. Members of the patriot movement in particular
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POPSAttorney: FBI trained NJ blogger to incite others So if this turns out to be true, then there are 2 crazy things happening with the FBI actually spying on US people (right wingers) and also using the blogsphere via a hired gun, to incite riots, responsive postings, etc. IF it is true and FBI is doing that, you have to woder what other 3 letter agencies are doing to shape people's opinions via New Media and psychological mechanisms. Hmmm... of course sales and marketing does that all the time in the real world, right ;-)
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POPS“Operation Get Rich or Die Tryin” Perp, Busted Again “We’re not seeing a huge array of hackers capable of doing this, but rather a more select group, demonstrates that there is a level of sophistication involved in these hacks,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Erez Liebermann of the Justice Department’s New Jersey district office. But these are just the latest in a string of high-profile breaches that have been connected to Gonzalez. He and 10 others were charged in May and August 2008 with network intrusions into TJX, OfficeMax, Dave & Busters restaurant chain and other companies. Jury selection is slated to begin Sept. 14 in one of those cases. With regard to the Heartland-Hannaford cases, Gonzalez and the two unnamed Russian hackers have been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. They each face a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a possible maximum fine of $250,000 on the computer-fraud count and
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POPSCitizen Informant Our forebears sacrificed so much to pass on the blessings of liberty. The least that we can do in the shadow of those heroes is to exercise our right to speak, and to do so out loud, not in whispers fearing that someone will forward our thoughts to the Watchers. These intimidating tactics must end.
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POPSThe End Game of the Left Part II just as well-funded (as the military)" doesn't scare you, does it? Read the following transcript from the testimony of Larry Grathwohl, an FBI informant who infiltrated a 1970 meeting conducted by Obama's close friend (and probable ghost-writer) William Ayers and included the leadership of the socialist Weather Underground. I brought up the subject of what's going to happen after we take over the government. You know, we become responsible for administrating, you know, 250 million people. And there was no answer. No one had given any thought to economics. How are you going to clothe and feed these people? The only thing that I could get was that they expected that the Cubans, the North Vietnamese, the Chinese and the Russians would all want to occupy different portions of the United States. They also believed that their immediate responsibility would be to protect against what they called the counter-revolution.
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POPSRead Why Death Penalty Cases Can Be So Difficult Justice for the accused (family and friends of the accused) and for the victim's family and friends is never easy. Read about one such case and why Ohio should probably just end the death sentance or at least order a moratorium and spend the time it needs to figure out how to make the system more just for all concerned.
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POPSEverything Is Illegal!!
"Once the new network television season starts, most Americans will forget they ever had civil rights in the first place. However, they would notice that they are not getting paychecks. So, really it's just a matter of Congress tailoring legislation to match the priorities of the American people. “There are already so many nebulous and conflicting laws on the books now, that police and government can pretty much arrest or fine anyone for anything they want already, so they figured that it would be far easier just to eliminate the small number of rights Americans have left than trying to surf the morass of idiocy that constitutes modern American law. The informant concluded that there were no plans to make a formal announcement of this change in policy, rather "we were just going to let people figure it out for themselves," and that the only reason he decided to come forward with this information was because he enjoyed looking at the shocked expression in this reporter's face.
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POPS4 arrested in plot to bomb NYC targets There was little danger that they could have carried out their plans because they happen to hook up with pseudo weapons providers. If their contacts had been legitimate I wonder what the odds would have been. They certainly appear to have been determined to attack these various targets.
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POPSFBI Blows It: Supposed NY Terror Plot Is Bogus As a citizen of the US, I expect and demand that those people charged with our protection know what they hell they are doing. To put their trust in some informant for his pitiful personal agenda is not only lazy and haphazard police work but it is criminal. The attitude of the FBI is that they are above suspicion but they are turning out to be the only true terrorists this nation needs to worry about.
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POPS4 Muslims Terrorists Arrested ~ Plot To Bomb NYC Synagogues BREAKING: More on the "overseas contingency operation". What are we supposed to call in when Muslims attack it America? The FBI busted a homegrown New York terror cell late Wednesday night as the men sneaked around a Jewish temple in Riverdale planting what they thought were packages of C-4 explosives, sources told the Daily News. The four men also allegedly had what they believed was a working Stinger missile in their car: officials said they wanted to shoot down a plane near Stewart Air National Guard Base. Sources said the four men were arrested after a year long investigation that began when an informant connected to a mosque in Newburg said some militants wanted to buy bombs. FBI agents posing as militants sold them what they thought were C-4 and a plane-downing Stinger missile. The weaponry was all phony.
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