Handling of classified documents has been a problem off and on for decades, from presidents to Cabinet members and staff across multiple administrations stretching as far back as Jimmy Carter.
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FBI warns of steep climb in ‘sextortion’ cases targeting teen boys
An explosive increase in teenage boys targeted online and extorted for money after being tricked into sending explicit pictures of themselves has the FBI sounding a public-safety alarm.
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Eleven years after disappearance of Ayla Reynolds, wrongful death suit, police probe continue
Ayla was reported missing Dec. 17, 2011, by her father, Justin DiPietro, from her grandmother’s Violette Avenue home in Waterville, launching the most costly state police investigation in Maine history, and she has never been found.
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Hacker claims breach of FBI’s critical-infrastructure portal
The hacker said the database information was easy to obtain with a simple software script.
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Steele dossier source acquitted, in loss for special counsel John Durham
Durham, who was asked by Attorney General William P. Barr in 2019 to review the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign in 2016, is sure to face renewed pressure to wrap up his work following the verdict.
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Trump worker told FBI about moving Mar-a-Lago boxes on ex-president’s orders
The employee told federal agents about moving boxes at Mar-a-Lago at the explicit direction of Donald Trump after a subpoena seeking the return of all classified material.
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Hundreds left FBI over misconduct in 20 years, whistleblower says
A U.S. senator says a whistleblower alleged that an internal review found 665 FBI personnel have resigned or retired to avoid accountability in misconduct probes over the past two decades.
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Trump lawyer allegedly refused Trump’s request to say all documents were returned
After 15 boxes of government records were sent to the National Archives in January, attorney Alex Cannon thought Donald Trump might have more records at Mar-a-Lago, people familiar with the matter said.
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Trump team claimed in 2021 that boxes at Mar-a-Lago held only news clippings
The former president’s lawyer, Pat Philbin, offered the reassuring news during a September 2021 phone call with top National Archives lawyer Gary Stern.
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Trump asks judge to block FBI from Mar-a-Lago records, opposes arbiter picks
The Trump team also referred to the documents that were seized as ‘purported’ classified records, suggesting his lawyers do not concede the Justice Department’s contention that highly sensitive, top-secret documents were found.