"The Spy Factory, an episode of the PBS series Nova, included segments of interviews with Rossini, who described his experience serving as one of the two FBI liaisons to the CIA's Bin Laden Issue Station, an inter-agency team assigned to track Osama bin Laden..."
"Rossini described being aware in January 2000 that two al-Qaeda members, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, had valid US visas. However, a CIA employee, Michael Anne Casey, reportedly stopped him from passing the information to FBI headquarters..."
"Rossini knew that if he reported this information to his FBI colleagues he would be breaking the law. The two men turned out to be hijackers of American Airlines flight 77 on 9/11."
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"Mark T. Rossini, a former Supervisory Special Agent of the FBI, was sentenced today to one-year of probation after previously pleading guilty to five separate counts of criminally accessing a sensitive FBI database for personal purposes."
March 14, 2009
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"According to the indictment, from December 2019 thru June 2020, then-Governor of Puerto Rico Wanda Vazquez Garced allegedly engaged in a bribery scheme with Julio Martin Herrera Velutini, Frances Diaz, Mark Rossini, and John Blakeman."
August 4, 2022
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MT @ScottMStedman: "Richard Frankel, Mark Rossini, and Charles McGonigal all held senior FBI positions before going to the private sector and working for Russian oligarchs including Oleg Deripaska and Dmitry Rybolovlev." #soriano
"Additionally, [CARTER] PAGE referenced the 9/11 Commission Report conclusion, which stated that the FBI and CIA did not share information, and work together. PAGE intimated that the allegations of Russian influence are a repeat of the USIC failures leading to the 9/11 attacks."
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