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...York Mob boss JOSEPH MASSINO, head of the Bonanno crime family and known as the Last Don, reportedly betrayed a subordinate and fed evidence to the FBI. According to court papers, federal investigators, with help from "a high-ranking member" of the family--presumed to be Massino--secretly tape-recorded Vincent Basciano, the family's acting boss, as he plotted the murder, never accomplished, of a federal prosecutor. Massino is the first boss of a New York family to cooperate with the FBI. The last don, indeed...
...Angeles International Airport two weeks ago, FBI agents arrested an Irish businessman they had spent a week tailing all over California's Silicon Valley, from the offices of two electronics manufacturers in Sunnyvale to a hotel in Mountain View and down a quiet cul-de-sac to a suburban house in San Jose. The technology exporter, according to court papers, had purchased sophisticated computer components in the U.S. to send to Russia through Ireland. He now stands to be charged in mid-February with "unlawful export of 'defense articles.'" U.S. officials point to this little-noticed case as one manifestation...
...think we've really got what it is that they're doing." The number of Russian spies in the U.S. is especially surprising, given that it was less than four years ago that the Bush Administration expelled 50 of them in retaliation for the humiliating discovery that FBI counterintelligence agent Robert Hanssen had been spying for Russia for 21 years...
...high-level meeting late last year, officials tell TIME, the National Security Council instructed the FBI, CIA, State Department and other agencies to get a better handle on the Russian espionage threat. While the U.S. might like to eject suspect diplomats to force the Russians to send in their "rookies," as a U.S. official put it, Moscow would probably respond in kind, denting the CIA's corps in Russia...
...city as mayor in the 1980?s and 90?s as he bloated the city?s payroll and ran up a massive debt. He became perhaps America?s most lampooned politician when he uttered the phrase ?bitch set me up? as officers arrested him for cocaine use during an FBI sting in 1990. Barry served six months in prison and recaptured his throne as mayor from...