News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Thursday, December 07, 2006

More than 1,000 officials snared in FBI corruption probes

FROM STAFF AND AP REPORTS
Dec 6, 2006

More than 1,000 government employees, including hundreds of police officers, have been convicted over the past two years in FBI corruption cases against crooked public officials, director Robert Mueller said Wednesday in Washington, D.C.

In prepared testimony to the Senate panel that oversees the bureau, Mueller called public corruption cases the FBI’s ‘‘top criminal investigative priority.’’

A chunk of the cases were the result of a Phoenix-based sting, code-named Operation Lively Green, which Mueller said so far has targeted 99 suspects in a bribery investigation of cocaine trafficking across the U.S.-Mexican border. More than 70 military personnel, prison guards and other law enforcement workers so far have been convicted of taking bribes to help move several hundred kilograms of cocaine across the border to Phoenix and Las Vegas, sometimes wearing uniforms and using military vehicles.

posted by missionaryman | 8:49 AM

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