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• Feds: Bath salt shipping hub operated from Nyack hotel; Strak Babikyan, Haider Rabeh Al-Khafaji arrested

  a Nyack hotel room as a shipping hub to forward so-called "bath salts" from senders in China to addresses in California, federal authorities said in a criminal complaint.Police and the FBI got wind of the operation after a U.S. Postal Service employee reported 5/17/13 Read more »

• Ramapo corruption investigation: FBI questioned Boulders' ballpark developer

  and computer hard drives that FBI agents hauled out of Town Hall during their seven-hour raid Wednesday."This is a federal investigation. This did not emanate out of the Rockland DA's office, no," Zugibe said. "This is something they developed on their own. 5/17/13 Read more »

• NY corruption: A day after FBI raid, business as usual in Ramapo

  raid has not been released."One law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation said some of the records sought by federal agents include documents related to Provident Bank Park and the local development corporation that runs the controversial,   Read more »

• Isaac Jara, of Ossining, faces 20 years if convicted in kid porn case

  analysis of his computer equipment, according to the complaint.Still, Jara continued to trade child pornography while the federal investigation was ongoing, officials said.In December 2012, Jara made two child pornography files available to an undercover New   Read more »

• Banks in Oak Rock case agree to new director

  Monday to allow the current company manager to run operations -- but report to a new independent director -- as a criminal investigation by the FBI and Eastern District federal prosecutors continues.Originally, the consortium of five banks that loaned the   Read more »

Around the web

• Turning Up The Heat On Civil Rights-Era Cold Cases

  Still Cold After nearly 50 years or more, evidence had been lost. Suspects and witnesses had died. Or memories had faded. Federal authorities had limited legal jurisdiction in these old cases. Now the FBI is winding down the Cold Case Initiative. The vast 5:42 AM from NPR Read more »

• Pastors meet for discussion about persistent issues of religion & race

  Questions developed by students in the Missouri State University Sociology Department were posed to visitors at the ÂRace: Are We So Different? exhibit at the Discovery Center last year. The questions were posed as statements  some true, some not. Partic 4:21 AM from The Springfield News-Leader Read more »

• Georgiana Vines: Pamela Reeves, federal court nominee, draws praise

  lawyer Pamela Reeves faces more intensive investigation by federal agencies and a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee since being nominated Thursday by President Barack Obama to be the first woman to serve as a federal judge in the Eastern Tennessee 4:06 AM from KnoxNews Read more »

• FBI battles 'the new organized crime'

  volunteers. Our political system in Washington is once again falling down on the job. This time, it’s the failure to fill top federal positions in a timely fashion. Kenzo Cotton led a parade of athletes Friday making up for lost time this season. The Papillion-La 3:49 AM from Omaha.com Read more »

• Documents detail questioning after Atwater prison guard killing

  understand an FBI agent's Miranda warnings afterward, defense attorneys claim in revealing new documents filed in federal court. The inmate, James Ninete Leon Guerrero, had consumed nearly 24 ounces of the approximately 180-proof booze from a plastic soda 1:27 AM from Mercedes Sun-Star Read more »