Customs agent took bribes to access Fed police databases
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Ex-Customs Service agent and the Mexican drug trafficker who bribed him both go to prison for a scheme involving selling access to massive confidential police databases.
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The FBI was acting illegally when it used the USA Patriot Act to covertly obtain telephone, business and financial records about people living in the United States, according to an audit by the Justice Department. By the Associated Press.
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A PC drive offered for sale as new on eBay turned out to have come from the laptop of an Arkansas Democratic Party official -- and it still contained sensitive information when the buyer received it.
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An official working for Britain's top law enforcement minister intervened in an immigration case on behalf of a nanny working for the minister's then-lover, an inquiry found Tuesday.
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A senior-level database administrator stole records containing credit card, bank account and other personal information.
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An affidavit filed by an agent of the F.D.A. details the personal involvement of Jin Lei, the founder of one of Chinaâs largest drug makers, in an illegal hormone distribution ring.
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An American company is accused of secretly funneling money to powerful Chinese government officials to ensure a lucrative banking contract.
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Billions of dollars worth of bribes paid each year go into pockets of public officials in rich countries, study finds.
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A trader in Internet penny stocks was convicted of using confidential information from an F.B.I. agent to profit illegally in the market.
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Federal agents and international allies arrest 28 suspects thought to have stolen credit card numbers and other financial information.
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Police arrested a former intelligence officer on charges he was a double agent, selling other agents' secret identities as well as counterintelligence data to a foreign government, Spain's spy chief said Tuesday.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - A B.C. government ministerial aide being probed for breach of trust was initially under investigation on allegations of money-laundering and corruption, newly released documents reveal.
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Two indictments issued Tuesday by a federal grand jury in San Diego contain fresh details related to alleged efforts by Brent R. Wilkes, a California businessman, to bribe a member of Congress and a senior CIA official. The goal, prosecutors charge, was to get the officials to steer lucrative federal contracts to companies Wilkes controlled....
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The California Department of Justice concealed tens of millions of dollars worth of contracts with lobbyists, consultants, legal firms &#151; even couriers and parking garages &#151; in violation of its own confidentiality rules, an Associated Press investigation has found.
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Anti-doping officials said the new drug was uncovered after an anonymous e-mail tip directed the agency to investigate a substance seized by Canadian customs officials.
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Online auctioneer eBay Inc. spent almost $2 million lobbying various departments of the federal government in the past year, including an entity rarely named on federal disclosure forms: the Central Intelligence Agency.
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A senior database administrator at a subsidiary of Fidelity National Information Services Inc. stole data belonging to about 2.3 million consumers and sold it to a data broker.