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It was, I believe, for not reporting his "income." The money was all laundered and couldn't be proven conclusively to come from illegal activities other than gambling (although it was rather clearly coming from the alcohol trade), but what they got him on was not paying taxes on his 'gambling' income.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone
http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/capone /capone.htm

In something that's tangentially related, did you know that your gambling losses are tax deductible? Kind of ironic that the fiscal incentive to donate money to the Red Cross is the same that it is to blow it down at the track on the ponies.

Here's another interesting one. The guy who paid for the attacks is one of the FBI's most wanted and is to be considered armed and dangerous.

Most crimes are solved because the criminal tells someone, or does something stupid.
Please allow me to clarify- I should have said, most crimes that are solved are solved because the criminal does something stupid.
Unfortunately, much crime is not solved:
Keep in mind that cleared means "solved". This is from 2000
(http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel01/cius2000.h tm)
Index Crime Clearances * Law enforcement agencies nationwide reported a 20.5-percent Crime Index offense clearance rate for 2000. The clearance rate for violent crimes was 47.5 percent; property crimes had a clearance rate of 16.7 percent. * Among violent crimes, the offense of murder had a clearance rate of 63.1 percent and was the most frequently cleared offense in 2000. The aggravated assault clearance rate was 56.9 percent; 46.9 percent of forcible rapes and 25.7 percent of robberies were also cleared. * For property crimes, 18.2 percent of larceny-thefts were cleared in 2000. Motor vehicle theft was cleared at a rate of 14.1 percent; burglary, the offense least often cleared, had a clearance rate of 13.4 percent. * Arson had a clearance rate of 16.0 percent in 2000. * In 2000, Index offenses involving only juvenile offenders (under 18 years of age) accounted for 19.3 percent of the overall Crime Index offenses cleared. Additionally, juveniles were held accountable for 12.2 percent of all violent crimes cleared and 22.1 percent of the total property crimes cleared. Murder had the least juvenile involvement with 5.3 percent of the offenses cleared. Juveniles, however, were most often involved in the crime of arson, representing 45.9 percent of the total arson offenses cleared.

The FBI has Legal Attaché Offices in approximately 50 countries world-wide.

http://www.fbi.gov/contact/legat/legat.htm

Here are some numbers for you:

Total Number of FBI employees 28,576
Special Agents 12,156
Support: 16,420 including 1,300 analysts and 1,000 IT specialists
Bureau Employees Permanently Stationed Overseas: 200
New Hires Since 9/11 5,606

The FBI Work Force By The Numbers (2004)

The federal government has the resources to investigate economic and property crimes that cross state and national boundaries. There is no hiding behind Osama's skirts.

https://tips.fbi.gov/

Let him get the taste...

Yes it is. Crime goes up, and so do accidental deaths. See handgun legislation and results in states (good example: MA).

In 1982, Kennesaw, Georgia, passed a law requiring heads of households to keep at least one firearm in the house. The residential burglary rate dropped 89% In 1991, the residential burglary rate in Kennesaw was still 72% lower than in 1981. - Dr. Gary Kleck, Crime Control Through the Private Use of Armed Force.

And during those ten years, alligator attacks outpaced the number of crimes committed by carry holders; gators 146, illegal shootings 88- the gators are winning! Florida Game Commission and the Florida Department of State, Firearms Licensing.

Guns are tools made to kill things. We hardly have any reasons to kill things any longer. Hence, we no longer need the tool.

Seriously though, after doing some research this seems to be the best source of info I could find http://www.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file=/ucr/cius_03 /xl/03tbl01.xls
(It's an Excel file, but loads fine in OO)

It only goes to 2003, seems like 2004 data is still preliminary

Probably this is just a trick by a Merrill Lynch publicist, who found a way to get free publicity. Or, maybe it is a way to distract people from some fraud involving the Taiwanese firm and Merrill Lynch.

Otherwise the story just doesn't make sense. To believe the story, Fubon cuts loss to NT$50 mil. in NT$8 bil. mistake, as it was written, you have to believe that the Taiwan firm hires inexperienced people, gives them little training, and does not review their large trades.

Do you really believe that a low-level employee spent a quarter billion dollars because of a keystroke error? In any case, the people who should know don't believe the story. Shares of "Fubon Securities' parent firm Fubon Financial Holding rose by 0.47%".

According to the U.S. government's SEC department, corruption of the media is not the only corruption from Merrill Lynch: SEC Charges Merrill Lynch, Four Merrill Lynch Executives with Aiding and Abetting Enron Accounting Fraud.

The U.S. government's Justice Department says, Three Top Former Merrill Lynch Executives Charged With Conspiracy, Obstruction Of Justice, Perjury In Enron Investigation.

There is general agreement that there has been no serious change in the U.S. government and big corporations like Merrill Lynch and Citibank. Apparently the only change is that they will be more careful in the future when they engage in deceptive practices. For an example of what has been written about this, see Iraq Could Produce Another Enron, by Nomi Prins. Ms. Prins wrote an excellent book about corporate and government corruption in the U.S., Other People's Money. At Powell's: Other People's Money.

Apparently most of what is written about the financial markets is fradulent in some way. Generally it fits into the category of "What we want you to think so that we can make more money". Employees and investors in the U.S. have lost billions of dollars due to fraud in the last few years.

The corruption is extremely widespread. Here are short reviews of 35 books and 3 movies about conflict of interest in the U.S. government: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government. (To those who think there is little or no corruption: If you can't give any example of a book or article you have read that supports your view, please consider not commenting this time.)

This is a catfish. A bottomfeeder. It survives by sucking up the wastes that acrete on the floor of its chosen body of water.

I wouldn't eat it. Well, being a pragmatist, I would actually. If I were the only chance for a meal I had all week. Which, given the current state of the US labour market isn't really so awfully far from the truth. But I digress.

One thing Ariel Sharon and Usama bin Laden agree on is that G-d doesn't want you eating things that eat offal. And, as insane as both of them seem to yours truly, I have to say on this one issue they both seem pretty sane to me. As opposed to every substantial issue, where they come off as a pair of utter loons in my eyes, but never mind all that, let's suppose there is a G-d, and he loves you - would he want you to eat a fish that lives on prematurely harvested coprolites?

Somehow I just don't think so.

stealing millions of dollars from your employees... 10 years in prison
(http://www.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel04 /enron01 1404.htm)

inflating your companies earnings by $2.7 billion dollars, so you can get rich off the stock...acquittal on 36 counts.
(http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/050628/healthsou th_scrush y.html?.v=25)

using what amounts to slave labor to fatten your pockets...become the largest and richest company in the world.
(http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_40/b3 701119.h tm)

revealing the identity of an undercover cia officer because her husband doesn't like your president...get off scot free.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/10/02/novak /index_np.html

sharing a movie with friends...5 years in prison.

this is insane.

Here:
http://www.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel05/bittorre nt052505.htm

It's a shame too -- ET was a nice source for torrents (not illegal ones...;-))

I just found a Press Release from the FBI saying they were going to shut down EliteTorrents.

At the bottom of the page we read:

"The Motion Picture Association of America provided valuable assistance to the investigation."

So nope, it's not a hack. It's official.

I thought that too because of its amateur look. But the FBI press release says otherweise. :(

No, it is real. http://www.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel05/bittorre nt052505.htm

Today is a strange day to do it, considering that EliteTorrents just got shut down by the FBI and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Inital breaking story where the webpage appeared to be hacked: http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=801
FBI Release: http://www.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel05/bittorre nt052505.htm
ICE release: http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/arti cles/starwars052505.htm
MPAA Release: http://mpaa.org/MPAAPress/2005/2005_05_25b.doc

The US Federal Trade Commission says that over 80% of spam involves some violation of Federal law. Not just the CAN-SPAM act, but mail fraud, false advertising, money laundering, computer crime, drug counterfeiting, and racketeering. There should be no problem filing charges.

If we had an FBI director who made this a priority, most spam could be eliminated in a year. Just divert some of the FBI Baltimore people who do child pornography, who are already experienced at tracking people on the Internet, off that job and onto tracking down the major spam operators.

In a sense, CAN-SPAM has been effective. Spamming by even vaguely legitimate companies is down. Almost all spamming now involves felony criminal activity of one kind or another.

OK, so you're probably more legit than that, but it was the first thought I had when I read your post.

Well, I remember when I started using internet, I wandered over to FBI web server and found there a web page simmilar to this. It was something like 1998 ... and yes, it did mention Bin Ladin in top ten most wanted people. I expect that a report delivered to White House having this name in, should ring a bell no matter what the rest of the report says.

Umm, dare I say it? While 911 was horrible, if you call the bombings in 1970 as terrorist, then a person in the US was, what, probably 750 times more likely to be hurt in 1970 due to terrorism than they were in 2001. Just say'in.

Bank robbery would have been a poor choice of substitute crimes. First, it's a federal crime, so you're going to federal PIMTA prison, not state. Second, it's very unlikely that robbing banks would have grossed $750,000 a month, as stated in the article. Third, since bank robberies result in arrest 57.7% of the time (in 2001), it's unlikely he would've gotten away with it.

If you write a virus and it gets on a federal computer (no matter what it does) you have committed unauthorized access and a felony. If they posted just their ip address, and the virus could only go after those machines, then maybe, but for now, please add your 2 cents here:

https://tips.fbi.gov/

A couple PDFs that some will find useful...

The FBI's DNA & Databasing Initiatives

CODIS Brochure

Source page...http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/codis/brochures.h tm

A couple PDFs that some will find useful...

The FBI's DNA & Databasing Initiatives

CODIS Brochure

Source page...http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/codis/brochures.h tm

A couple PDFs that some will find useful...

The FBI's DNA & Databasing Initiatives

CODIS Brochure

Source page...http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/codis/brochures.h tm

Since firearm crimes are usually the most serious, it is natural to focus on them.

The homicide rate in Australia was 1.91 per 100,000 people in 1996, and 1.7 per 100,000 in 2003. Firearms accounted for 16% of homicides in 2002-2003, making the firearm homicide rate 0.27 per 100,000.

(source: AIC)

2003 USA rate for homicide was 5.7 per 100,000. 66.9% of those were committed with a firearm, thus 3.8 per 100,000 people in the USA were killed with a firearm in 2003.

(Source: FBI )

3.8 / 0.27 =~ 14

The USA firearm homicide rate is 14 times higher than the Australian firearm homicide rate. (And over twice the overall Australian homicide rate) Nothing to be proud of.

What are the losses to PearOS? Just run sloccount on the source.

What are the losses to PearOS? Just run sloccount on the source.

I guess the "patent pending" avatar used in the story was a tongue-in-cheek joke when it was created. However, with these kind of stories, I fear that it may someday become a reality.

I hope breathing fresh air is never patented.

from the willie-sutton-working-overtime dept...

Q: Who is Willie Sutton?

A: This is Willie Sutton.

Yah, don't forget ELF and ALF.

I believe you are correct. The first year that I was "a business" I did not claim it. My tax accountant said that it was not enough to claim. The following years after that, sometime it is, sometimes it is not. Either way, it is not that difficult to save the paper and recipts, and then throw them away if I don't need them.

The difference between whether you are a business or a hobby has to do with profit intent, not whether you actually "show" income. BTW, the definition of gross income essentially is total worldwide income that is not specifically exempt. This includes the value of services you receive in exchange for your services. When you exchange goods or services you are required to include the value of goods or services that you receive as your income.
And as much as I like google, I am not using it as a source of "tax advice". On top of that, your "tax accountant" gave you incorrect legal/tax advice. If you made at least $1.00 in gross receipts the form should be attached to your return, period. Your "tax accountant" should have also advised you of your requirement to report all income, if you are comfortable with not reporting all your income- or even letting someong talk you out of taking deductions that reduce your other income then I guess that will create whatever it creates, bad karma, whatever. Remember Capone was not convicted of his illegal activities, but for income tax evasion. Technically, crack dealers have to properly report their income whether it comes from legal or illegal sources.
IANATABIAAEA (I am not a "tax accountant" but I am an Enrolled Agent)
Luckily, the article was not about tax advice, but how to charge for services.

We throw its sorry ass in jail and throw away the key? Most violent crimes are never solved. The clearance rate for violent crimes(which includes only murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) in 2002 was 46.8%. And the rate of solved, in the common sense of the word, is ever less; the clearance rate just means "cleared by arrest."

It's good to dream friend, but maybe you should wake up once in a while?

He's too scared to say Usama Bin Laden. He wants us to focus on Iraq instead.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

# robots.txt for http://www.whitehouse.gov/

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /query.html
Disallow: /help
Disallow: /360pics/iraq
Disallow: /economy/iraq
Disallow: /firstlady/newborn/iraq
Disallow: /government/images/iraq
Disallow: /president/statevisit/window/iraq
Disallow: /president/ridge/iraq
Disallow: /911/911day/iraq
etc...

Or if you really want to fuck them: here or here.

Oh thank you so much for bringing up the crux of the issue. While I was enjoying the joking around here, there is a rather more serious issue at hand here . . . .

The Wired article is, rather irresponsibly I might add, basically giving teeth to all of those lawsuits pending and soon to be pending against video game studios. It is simply bad juju to say "I want to frag all my friends after playing Doom3" and then cry foul when when id Software gets sued for a kid who does.

Video games DO NOT CAUSE VIOLENCE. Cause is a one-to-one relationship. Games are a multi-billion dollar industry and if there was a one-to-one relationship, we wouldn't be able to step outside without bands of teenagers recreating Half-Life and Halo squads (I understand this is really a problem in some of the more urban areas, but I also know the problem there predates Pong). If a person actually emulates the violence they see in a video game, THEY ALREADY HAVE WITHIN THEM THE CAPACITY AND DESIRE TO DO IT. There is no causal relationship between the two.

You said it yourself; you and your friends started thinking these things after playing video games, but you didn't do it because YOU WERE LEVEL-HEADED. You pretty much imply that the people who would go through with it are not level-headed, and you are right. If they didn't have the video game, there would be some other cause later.

Violent crimes have gone down since a peak in 1992, and yet the video game industry has been booming with more and more violent and realistic games. Again, no causal relationship.

That is my opinion. I am a hard-core video game player for most of my life, and while I will admit that my depth perception has been known to change after playing Quake I for muliple hours and it is fun to entertain the notion of jacking the cars you see on the street after GTAIII, it IS still fantasy, because I know where reality lies. People who don't know this line are time-bombs waiting to happen anyway.

Where someone is referred from is none of your business, mr violating our rights online.

You want your rights violated? OK, here you go. Your IP address is 192.168.0.1 and you were referred here from 127.0.0.1 which is a HUGE porn, warez and mp3 site. Recent items in your browser history include http://msdn.microsoft.com/ and http://goatse.cx/. You last made an online purchase at http://www.ebay.com/ where you bought a pallet of rubber chickens. And you have a browser helper object installed which sends all of your browsing data to http://www.fbi.gov/ because you're under investigation for ... well ... you know.

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation is working every day not only in the United States, but in 52 countries outside our borders. The FBI has a Legal Attache Program which was created to help foster good will and gain greater cooperation with international police partners in support of the FBI's domestic mission. The goal is to link law enforcement resources and other officials outside the U.S. with law enforcement in this country to better ensure the safety of the American public here and abroad.

"Presently, there are 45 Legal Attache (Legat) offices and four Legat sub-offices. The FBI's Special Agent representatives abroad carry the titles of Legal Attache, Deputy Legal Attache, or Assistant Legal Attache. The FBI believes it is essential to station highly skilled Special Agents in other countries to help prevent terrorism and crime from reaching across borders and harming Americans in their homes and workplaces.

"Legats not only help international police agencies with training activities, they facilitate resolution of the FBI's domestic investigations which have international leads. The Legat program focuses on deterring crime that threatens America such as drug trafficking, international terrorism, and economic espionage."

Source: FBI

"No one should scandalize the presence of FBI agents at the Mexico City International Airport, as the presence of intelligence agents at airports is common. Yes there are agents from the FBI (at airports), like our agents are in the U.S., like the Spanish police as well as carabineers (military or state police) from Chile and Italy are here. They are information agents, conduits for the intelligence systems of their countries to obtain confidential and verifiable information."

Source: Armando Salinas Torre, Interior Ministry Undersecretary of Migration

I work for the DOJ and I can tell you a surprisingly large number of agents are assigned to this.
They are assigned to innocent images

goat-see [eggdrop@goatse.cx]

I wouldn't act all high and mighty, Mr. GNAA Goat-See. I got your IP address right there and I am logging all the shit you're doing and there is not a thing you can do about it. I suggest anyone else hit by the GNAA to do the same and email the FBI computer crimes division. They WILL investigate if enough people complain.

You would be suprised how big computer forensics is, especially within government agencies. In fact, a quick Google Search can show you this.

The FBI has an entire laboratory set up for computer forensics, as a part of their Computer Analysis and Response Team.

The Secret Service has established the Electronic Crimes Special Agent Program
(ECSAP), that trains agents to conduct forensic examinations of computers.

Many local police stations are setting up Cyber Crime units.

The National Security Agency (NSA) has a huge program training people for computer forensics.

The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) has a program as well.

The National Science Foundation is setting up a Scholarship For Service program in schools all over the nation to train students to take government positions in the area of computer crime.

In fact, just about every government agency has a cyber crime program. Police units are establishing their own as well.

When you show up to a crimminal's home, you have to secure their computer and investigate it in a forensically-sound way (or bag and tag it and take it back to the lab where you will be doing a more in-depth investigation.) Forensics tools for Windows are important because a large percentage of responses are on Windows machines (following the market share trend of Windows.) You can't just tear through a system like a bull in a china shop, or you will change timestamps and volatile information, and a good defense will get the crimminal off based on the lack of integrity of the investigation. This is why getting a tested and reliable tool that can be demonstrated in court is very important.

Yes, crimes happen on and evidence is located on computers now.

-Child Porn
-Drug runner contact lists
-Pictures of Crimes in-action
-Hacking
-Credit Card fraud
-Online Fraud
-Network Intrusion
-Email exchange detailing crimes
-Electronic warfare
-Cyber-terrorism

to name a few.

"His name is Robert Paulson... his name is Robert Paulson... his name is Robert Paulson..."

Not talking about Kevin, it's a movie quote which think is appropriate, it's from a movie about sticking it to the man!! Bonus points if you know the movie. AC, coz I'm scared of the Gestapo..

rate per 100,000 population (2003)
Canada vs US
All: 8884.8 vs 8126.8
Violence: 962.8 vs 475.0
Homicide: 1.7 vs 5.7
Attempted homicide: 2.2 vs ?
Assaults: 746.5 vs 327.1
Sexual assault: 74.1 vs 32.1
Robbery: 89.6 vs 142.2
Property crimes: 4121.4 vs 3588.4
Auto Theft: 540.7 vs 433.4
Theft over $5000: 63.6 vs ?
Traffic offences: 366.3 vs ?

Homicide by method
Canada vs US
Per 100,000 (all): 1.7 vs 5.7
All: 548 vs 14408
Shooting: 161 (29.4%) vs 9638 (66.9%)
Stabbing: 142 (25.9%) vs 1816 (12.6%)
Beating: 120 (21.9%) vs 1597 (11.1%)
Strangulation: 63 (11.5%) vs 184 (1.3%)
Fire: 12 (2.2%) vs 163 (1.1%)
Other: 27 (4.9%) vs 182 (1.3%)
Unknown: 23 (4.2%) vs 828 (5.7%)

There are you actual statistics. I couldn't find some for the US, but I think this gives an accurate enough impression. All statistics are for the year 2003, taken from Statistics Canada Crime and Justice Reports http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/justic.htm and the FBI Uniform Crime Reports http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/03cius.htm

I think they got the files from the same place this guy got his. Or was it this guy?

I think they all got it from these guys or maybe these guys over here or maybe it was these guys.

Since you are so concerned about this, I took initiative and went to the FBI Tip Submission Page and gave them a link to your posts. I would suggest other forum readers do the same thing. I assume the more submissions, the more likely someone will look into the matter.

I'm suprised they have not interviewed you since you seem to know a lot about this incident.

I wonder if he's related to this Genovese family?

You do realize that the vast majority of violent crimes are commited with melee weapons, don't you? Most violent crimes are acts of rage. Rage tends to be up-close and personal. And, gun-grabbers usually cite home-intrusion and domestic violence as the cases where a gun puts you at greater risk. Seems to me that both of these occur in relatively tight spaces.

The rate of violent crime in the USA in 2002 was about 2500 per 100,000 people. (Source: USA Today)

The rate of serious violent crime in the USA in 2002 was about 500 per 100,000 (Source: FBI). Note that this only includes murder and manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault ("a reckless attack with intent to injure seriously (as with a deadly weapon)"), and so does not include all of the "minor assaults" that made up the majority of the Canadian violent crime rate.

In fact, those "simple assaults" happen at the rate of 1550 per 100,000 (Source: USDOJ), demonstrating why the comparable US violent crime rate is indeed the 2500 per 100,000 reported by USAToday, and not the artificially low number you used.

As the site you pulled your numbers from stated:

Different nations use different criteria to define "murder" and "serious assault," therefore ability to use this data to compare between nations is limited...

Using more comparable numbers seems to give very different results than you had suggested: Canada's violent crime rate is 40% of America's.

Here's the FBI's take on hate crimes. Who knows, maybe Jeff Merkey will read it and learn something.