Jewish Americans were once again the religious group most targeted by religiously-motivated bias crimes, the Federal Bureau of Investigation disclosed Tuesday. In its annual Hate Crime Statistics Act report, the FBI found a slight decrease in the number of hate crimes overall, as well as a similarly small decline in crimes motivated by religious bias….
Neo-Nazis considered to be domestic terrorism threats by the U.S. government are increasingly communicating and meeting with European hate groups, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Christopher Wray, told Congress Wednesday. Speaking to the House Homeland Security Committee, Wray said that these meetings did not appear to be about organizing terrorist actions, but…
An Ohio man who was convicted of an anti-Semitic hate crime has gone missing before he was supposed to report to prison. The FBI issued an arrest warrant for Izmir Koch and is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to his detention, Fox 19 in Cincinnati reported Monday. Koch was convicted in December 2018…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said in response to a Freedom of Information Act request that it had lost many of its files on the neo-Nazi website Stormfront, MuckRock reported. Journalist Emma Best filed a FOIA request more than two years ago for the FBI’s information on Stormfront, at one point the most prominent white…
Joe Lieberman said President Trump offered him the role of FBI director — but he’s relieved he didn’t take it, Jewish Insider reported. Lieberman, former senator from Connecticut, was one of four candidates interviewed by the president in May 2017, the week after James Comey was fired from the post, according to The New York…
Julie Swetnick lashed out at Brett Kavanaugh in her first television interview Monday, calling the embattled Supreme Court nominee a “very aggressive, very sloppy drunk — very mean drunk.” Swetnick, who is Jewish, expanded on her claims that Kavanaugh participated in high school parties where she and other women were drugged with spiked fruit punch…
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer, secretly recorded a conversation with Trump two months before the presidential election, in which they discussed payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Trump, according to lawyers and others familiar with the recording. The F.B.I. seized the recording this year during a raid…
A friend of Sheldon Silver said in court Tuesday that he warned the former Assembly speaker about being raided by the FBI in 2014 using a Hebrew codeword, the New York Post reported. Dr. Robert Taub — a key government witness in a corruption retrial of Silver that began Monday — said he called Silver…
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