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...back to a low hum. The big noise arose when University of Louisville coach Rick Pitino released a statement that alleged he was the subject of an extortion attempt. It persisted for nearly a week, until Karen Sypher was charged in federal court with extortion and lying to the FBI. She was indicted...
...extortion case has fueled wild speculation about Sypher's allegations. The complaint filed by the FBI does not list them, citing their "suspect" nature. And though Sypher has told her story to some Louisville media, thus far no outlet has published or broadcast them. She first went to WDRB-TV, a Fox affiliate, which interviewed her at length and also arranged a polygraph test that proved inconclusive. The station decided not to air the interview, news director Barry Fulmer told TIME, because so many of Sypher's charges are unsubstantiated. Sypher has also spoken to Louisville's Courier-Journal newspaper...
...criminal complaint, Pitino acknowledges "an encounter" with Sypher in 2003. Sometime after that, Tim Sypher, the team's equipment manager, met Karen, and they were married. In late February 2009, Pitino told the FBI, he received two voice mails on his personal cell phone from an unidentified man who characterized the interaction between Pitino and an unnamed woman as criminal. The caller later threatened to notify the media. Pitino said he then met with Sypher and her husband and asked what she wanted. Karen Sypher wrote out a list of demands, he said, including college tuition for her children...
...FBI report on gang activity in the U.S. military found that members of nearly every major street gang were present in the ranks of the U.S. armed forces. Service members associated with Bloods, Crips, Black Disciples, Gangster Disciples, Hells Angels, Latin Kings, The 18th Street Gang, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), Mexican Mafia, Nortenos, Surenos, Vice Lords and various white supremacist groups were documented serving at U.S. military installations at home and abroad. The report said the Army had the highest count of gang members in its ranks, partly because it is the largest branch and partly because of relatively...
Soufan has left the FBI and now runs a security consultancy. Although he rarely speaks of his past life in public, he has given testimony to several Congressional hearings on Gitmo...