At least six senior FBI leaders have been ordered to retire, resign or be fired by Monday, according to sources briefed on the matter, extending a purge that began last week at the Justice Department across the street from the FBI headquarters.
Several top FBI executives promoted by former Director Christopher Wray were told Thursday to resign or retire and that they will be demoted or reassigned if they don’t leave, according to one current and three former bureau officials.
These senior officials at FBI headquarters were responsible for overseeing top priorities for the bureau, including national security, criminal and cyber issues, the sources said.
President Donald Trump’s new administration is looking ahead to key Senate hearings this week for three of his most controversial nominees.
Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, is insisting to deeply skeptical Democrats that he did not have an “enemies list” and that the bureau under his leadership would not seek retribution against the president’s adversaries or launch politically motivated investigations.
History is littered with democracies that lost their freedoms and didn't notice it while it was happening. Let's not be one of them,’ Adam Schiff says
Patel told senators he would commit himself to "due process and transparency" if confirmed as the bureau's director.
An Alexandria man was sentenced in the Western District Court of Louisiana for an almost decade-long retirement scam.
In an international crackdown involving Houston authorities, 39 domains operated by a Pakistan-based group known as Saim Raza or HeartSender were shut down for selling hacking and fraud tools.
The victim of a 1991 homicide has been identified as Toussaint Gonsalves using investigative genetic genealogy, police said.
Jeal Sutherland, accused of a murder-for-hire plot involving a romantic rival, will remain in jail as legal proceedings continue.