Claims of Extortionate No-Fly List Head to High Court
The Supreme Court took up a case Friday involving Muslim men who say the FBI put them on a no-fly list because they would not serve as government informants.
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‘Rogue Informant’ Sues SEC Over Retaliatory Subpoenas
Accusing the Securities and Exchange Commission of retaliating against him for “going rogue,” former informant Guy Gentile brought a federal complaint Friday to quash old subpoenas against him.
Read moreIn Britain, Politicians Question Use of Child Spies
A dispute is breaking out in Great Britain over the long-overlooked use of children by police and intelligence agencies as informants and spies in efforts to fight terrorism, drug trafficking, sexual exploitation and gang activity.
Read moreFifth Circuit Hears Appeal in Cartel Killing Case
An attorney for a Mexican national who helped track down a cartel lawyer turned informant, leading to his assassination at a shopping center in an affluent Dallas suburb, told a Fifth Circuit panel Monday that jurors made a mistake when they convicted his client of conspiracy to commit murder.
Read moreFree Speech Also Protects Sealed Lips, Second Circuit Says
In an expansion of inmate rights, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday that the First Amendment rights protects speech and, in some cases, silence.
Read moreOrange County DA & Sheriff Sued Over Use of Jailhouse Informants
Orange County, California, law enforcement officials ran a “secret jailhouse informant operation” in violation of state and federal laws, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Read morePaid Informant Testifies in Trial of Suspected Benghazi Mastermind
During the sixth week of trial over the 2012 attacks in Benghazi that killed four Americans, the government called a key witness who earned more than $7 million for his cooperation in the capture of suspected mastermind Ahmed Abu Khattala.
Read moreAssistant Sheriff in Orange County Says the System Failed
For years, the sheriff’s department in Orange County, California, had a “failed system” that allowed deputies to use jail informants to violate the constitutional rights of criminal suspects, an assistant sheriff testified Thursday.
Read moreJudge Pressures OC Sheriff in Jailhouse-Informant Scandal
The sheriff of Orange County, California, took the stand before a skeptical judge Wednesday to insist that her department has not had a practice of cultivating jailhouse informants to question criminal suspects in custody.
Read moreMafia Capo Won’t Catch Sentencing Break for Terror Intel
He may have prevented the Oklahoma City bomber’s next terrorist attack, but that’s not enough to reduce the sentence of an incarcerated mafioso with a history of crying wolf, the Second Circuit ruled.
Read moreOrange County Grand Jury Report Calls Jailhouse Snitch Program a ‘Myth’
An Orange County grand jury report released Tuesday said no evidence exists that prosecutors are using an unconstitutional secret jailhouse informant program for criminal investigations.
Read moreJudge in Mass-Murder Case Claws at SoCal Sheriff
Nearly 5½ years after Scott E. DeKraai massacred eight people at an Orange County beauty parlor and four years after DeKraai’s public defender began exposing the jailhouse informant scandal that rocked the county’s criminal justice system, the judge in the case says important information is still being kept from him.
Read moreNorth Dakota Bill Aims to Protect Police Informants
A bill to protect confidential police informants in North Dakota has recently received overwhelming support in the state’s legislature.
Read moreNo-Fly List Abuse Could Cost FBI Agents
Government attorneys struggled Wednesday before the Second Circuit to show why FBI agents who used the constitutionally shaky no-fly list to pressure Muslims into becoming informants should not pay damages.
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