Trump appointed Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey as Co-Deputy Director of the FBI alongside Dan Bongino, creating the first dual deputy director structure in FBI history. Bailey, a Trump loyalist who supported debunked 2020 election claims, has no FBI experience but will help run day-to-day …
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On September 15, 2021, Olympic gymnasts Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman, and Maggie Nichols delivered powerful testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the FBI’s catastrophic mishandling of sexual abuse allegations against Larry Nassar. The athletes’ testimony …
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On August 13, 2019, just days before his death, Jeffrey Epstein sent a letter to Larry Nassar from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York—a communication discovered returned to sender in the jail’s mail room weeks after Epstein’s suicide. The letter, which was submitted to the …
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On September 12, 2016, the Indianapolis Star published an investigation exposing Larry Nassar’s systematic sexual abuse of gymnasts, breaking the story that the FBI had failed to investigate for over a year. The newspaper investigation, led by reporters who uncovered the FBI’s …
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On July 28, 2015, officials in the FBI’s Indianapolis Field Office met with USA Gymnastics leadership who reported sexual abuse allegations against team doctor Larry Nassar from three young gymnasts. The FBI failed to formally document this meeting, failed to properly handle and document …
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On December 11, 2008, FBI agents arrested Bernard L. Madoff for orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history, worth approximately $65 billion and affecting 37,000 victims across 136 countries. Madoff, former chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market, confessed to his sons on December 9 that his …
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After a seven-week federal trial, Providence Mayor Vincent “Buddy” Cianci Jr. is convicted on June 24, 2002, of one count of racketeering conspiracy as the culmination of Operation Plunder Dome, the FBI’s multi-year undercover investigation into systematic corruption within …
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Between 1988 and 1992, the Department of Justice prosecutes over 1,000 savings and loan bankers for fraud and related crimes during the S&L crisis, with regulators making over 30,000 criminal referrals that produce felony convictions in cases designated as “major” by DOJ. Federal …
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President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9835 on March 21, 1947, nine days after announcing the Truman Doctrine, establishing the first general loyalty program in United States history designed to root out Communist influence in the federal government. The order mandates loyalty …
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