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Navy Intelligence Specialist Jailed in FBI Sting
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News
(Dec. 7) -- A Navy petty officer is behind bars after selling secret documents to an undercover agent in an FBI sting, federal authorities say. US Navy / AP Navy Petty Officer Bryan Minkyu Martin is being held at Fort Bragg, N.C. Bryan Minkyu Martin, a Navy Reserve intelligence specialist with the Joint Special Operations Command, was arrested last week by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and is being held at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, The Washington Post reported today. Martin, 22, met three times with an FBI agent posing as an officer of an unnamed foreign country, CNN ...
Report: Double Agent Helped Bust Russian Spy Ring
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
(Nov. 11) -- After this summer's arrest of Anna Chapman and her fellow Russian spies, many experts have wondered how U.S. intelligence agencies discovered the sleeper cell. Now a Moscow newspaper claims it has the answer: They were tipped off by a Russian double agent. The respected business daily Kommersant today reported that a man it identified as Col. Shcherbakov, a longtime member of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), had secretly been working with the Americans. Shcherbakov reportedly was responsible for planting civilian moles in the United States, such as the 10-strong ...
Mafia Turncoat Salvatore Vitale Sentenced to Time Served
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Oct. 29) -- UPDATED, 5:45 p.m. EDT -- An epic New York mafia tale came to its climax today when a Brooklyn Federal Court judge sentenced Salvatore "Good Looking Sal" Vitale, an underboss of the Bonanno crime family who turned FBI informant in January 2003, to time already served. He has been in prison since he was arrested in 2003. Vitale, 63, pleaded guilty to 11 murders, but prosecutors asked Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis for leniency because of the extraordinary number of mobster convictions and law enforcement leads his cooperation has engendered. "Quite simply, Vitale has likely been ...
Rome's Gay Priest Scandal Makes Everyone Look Bad
By David Gibson - Politics DailyAn Italian magazine that went undercover to report on the sexual hijinks of three gay priests in Rome is causing a major headache for Pope Benedict XVI at a time when his record on dealing with the sexual abuse of children by clerics was already an intractable crisis for the Catholic Church. But in this case there is actually enough blame to go around so that nobody should be pointing fingers. First off, there are the journalistic ethics of the tabloid news magazine, Panorama, which published its expose' on Friday. Panorama is owned by Italian prime minister and media magnate Silvio ...
Family Challenges Police Version of CEO's Shooting Death
By Mara Gay - AOL News(July 21) -- The family of a credit union CEO who was killed by a police officer in a New Jersey park known for male prostitution says the police account of the shooting is a "contemptible lie." DeFarra Gaymon, 48, was a long way from his home in Suwanee, Ga., when he was shot and killed Friday in Newark by an undercover police officer. In a statement Tuesday, prosecutors said the married father of four was engaging in a public sex act when he resisted arrest and threatened to kill the officer, prompting the officer to shoot him in the chest out of self-defense. Gaymon's family, however, ...
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