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Justice Department, FBI Are Investigating Cambridge Analytica (cbsnews.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: The Justice Department and FBI are investigating Cambridge Analytica, the now-shuttered political data firm that was once used by the Trump campaign and came under scrutiny for harvesting data of millions of users, The New York Times reported on Tuesday. The Times, citing a U.S. official and people familiar with the inquiry, reported federal investigators have looked to question former employees and banks connected to the firm.
The Times reports prosecutors have informed potential witnesses there is an open investigation into the firm, whose profiles of voters were intended to help with elections. One source tells CBS News correspondent Paula Reid prosecutors are investigating the firm for possible financial crimes. A company that has that much regulatory scrutiny is almost guaranteed to have federal prosecutors interested, Reid was told. Christopher Wylie, a former Cambridge Analytica employee who spoke out about the data sharing practices, told the Times federal investigators had contacted him. The American official told the Times investigators have also contacted Facebook as a part of the probe.
The Times reports prosecutors have informed potential witnesses there is an open investigation into the firm, whose profiles of voters were intended to help with elections. One source tells CBS News correspondent Paula Reid prosecutors are investigating the firm for possible financial crimes. A company that has that much regulatory scrutiny is almost guaranteed to have federal prosecutors interested, Reid was told. Christopher Wylie, a former Cambridge Analytica employee who spoke out about the data sharing practices, told the Times federal investigators had contacted him. The American official told the Times investigators have also contacted Facebook as a part of the probe.
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Trolls will try to discredit me by accusing me of being a paid Russian troll. The truth is, the people trying to discredit me are paid DNC trolls, operating with funds supplied by Russian oligarchs.
When is Trump going to shut them down for wasting tax dollars over this idiotic investigation against him? Fuck, they wiretapped him under Obama and still didn't find any dirt.
But unelected people will chase any wild goose to try to get Trump on a technicality. The collusion investigation that was supposed to find communication between Trump and Putin now has, as it's MOST damning evidence, a guy who left the election campaign early on and whose indicted crime was having dodged taxes years before the campaign even began. Now a violation of privacy by a British firm is being argued as the next piece of evidence for the supposed Trump-Putin collusion. That is pure non sequitur if ever there was any. Not to mention that if Trump were indeed colluding with Putin, it would have been easier to have gotten the FSB to hack Facebook and give Trump's campaign access to all the data.
your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
Or am I thinking of some other association of shysters?
The Democratic National Committee has too much long-term name recognition value to just change their name because of some indiscrete email leaks.