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1 week ago | 
freerepublic.com | Adam Goldman
Article at NY Times provided without any bias of court. Here is the paywall free version:F.B.I. Suspends Bureau Employee on Patel’s So-Called Enemies ListHere is the back story on Auten:Meet the FBI Analyst Behind The Decade’s Biggest Political Disinformation Campaigns"An intelligence analyst behind the FBI’s botched Trump-Russia collusion probe is now accused of using the bureau’s authority to discredit reports about Hunter Biden’s criminal activity months before the 2020 presidential election.
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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Adam Goldman
The employee was a longtime counterintelligence analyst who had worked on the F.B.I.'s investigation examining Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The F.B.I. has suspended an analyst on Kash Patel's so-called enemies list after Mr. Patel told lawmakers that the bureau under his leadership would stay out of the political fray and not punish employees for partisan reasons.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Adam Goldman
The complaint against the businessman, Bashar Masri, does not say that he knew about the Oct. 7 attack in advance but does assert that he was aware of the Hamas military infrastructure at his properties. Families of victims of the Hamas-led terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023, sued a prominent …
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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Adam Goldman
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of about 200 plaintiffs, including Eyal Waldman, a former business partner of Mr. Masri whose youngest daughter was killed in the Nova music festival. An Israeli billionaire, Mr. Waldman is a peace activist. The family of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, the Israeli American who was taken hostage and later killed, also joined the lawsuit, as did Yechiel Leiter, the Israeli ambassador to the United States.
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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Adam Goldman |Alan Feuer
Absent from Mr. Patel's communications with his 38,000 employees was any mention of the persistent assaults that he himself has launched against the F.B.I. over the years. Before he ascended to the post of F.B.I. director, Mr. Patel repeatedly distorted the facts about the bureau's investigation of Russian meddling into President Trump's 2016 campaign.
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2 weeks ago | 
jdsupra.com | Jeff VonDruska |Adam Goldman |Joseph Mannon |Laure Sguario
On March 12, 2025, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued no-action guidance providing that certain minimum investment amounts, along with certain written representations from the purchaser, could constitute “reasonable steps” to verify a purchaser’s accredited investor status in an offering conducted under Rule 506(c) of Regulation D.
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2 weeks ago | 
jdsupra.com | Adam Goldman |Joseph Mannon |Laure Sguario
On March 19, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) updated its frequently asked questions (FAQs) relating to Rule 206(4)-1 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the “Marketing Rule”).[1] The new FAQs permit the use of certain performance-related metrics (e.g., yield, coupon rate, contribution to return, volatility, sector or geographic returns, attribution analyses, the Sharpe ratio, the Sortino ratio, and other similar metrics) and extracted performance on a gross basis...
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Adam Goldman
"I've been a public figure for more than a decade, and all the stuff I've said and written is out there for you to see and have an opinion about," Mr. Bongino wrote. Mr. Bongino has long made his name by assailing Democrats, which could provide fodder for defense lawyers willing to argue that the F.B.I. is politicized. His past criticism has chipped away at the F.B.I.'s reputation, a fact that is not lost on agents now under his command.
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4 weeks ago | 
spokesman.com | Christina Goldbaum |Adam Goldman
The United States has lifted multimillion-dollar bounties on three senior Taliban officials, according to Afghan authorities and a senior U.S. official. The move is a significant shift by the Trump administration toward militants who were behind some of the deadliest attacks during the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan but have refashioned themselves as a more moderate voice within the Taliban.
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4 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Adam Goldman |Glenn Thrush |Devlin Barrett
In years past, the move by senior members of President Trump's administration to share defense secrets over the Signal messaging app would have represented a serious breach that would have likely prompted investigations by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department's national security division.
