Interesting, this looks like it came out of the OIG investigation that I discussed a few months ago. It looks like this is the first of many arrests to come as they talk about a lot of co-conspirators including the cartels! #ButNothingsHappening
That OIG report found that DEA was illegally hiding covert money laundering operations from the Attorney General & Congress. That they DEA was protecting some cartels, banks, & people from prosecution while investigating others.
The OIG investigation only covered 3 fiscal years, but Irizarry & his wife plead guilty to 19 charges in a scheme lasting 7 years. They were using DEA undercover stings against money laundering, to launder their own money & take pay offs from targets to not investigate them.
It makes it pretty clear that Irizarry was not working alone, and the OIG investigation identified the same problems in a wide range of DEA offices running similar investigations.
Irizarry was involved in a personal bankruptcy case for the entiretly of his 7 year involvement in these crimes. He became involved in his scheme soon after he filed for bankruptcy, I wonder if he started on his own or was targeted & flipped because of his bankruptcy....
There also appears to be an investigation into accountants that DEA contracted to oversea these undercover money laundering programs. The numbers don't add up & DOJ OIG made certain that they couldn't vouch for any of the numbers...
Wait until they figure out that Microsoft's 3rd party vendor licensing programs are designed to hide bribery & give them plausible deniability whenever their vendors get caught.
Business, government, educational software licenses are rife with kickbacks.
#ButNothingsHappening
Essentially the scheme works by Microsoft giving a vendor permission to provide the software licenses at a discount. The vendor then charges the customer full price, & the discounted amount is then used to pay bribes to purchasing authorities.
Enemy insurgents are not civilians. They are war criminals for posing as civilians while engaged in combat. Why is that a war crime? Because it increases the odds of real civilians being mistaken for combatants.
Wikileaks used distraction techniques to create a false narrative. They pointed to a camera, while the pilots talked about observing weapons. To distract people from the real weapons the group was carrying & trick them into thinking the pilots pretended the camera was a weapon.
The insurgent I circles has an AK. He's trying to hide it against his body, but if you watch the video you can see it repeatedly.
This campaign to hack & intimidate US political officials goes back to at least 2010.
Wonder how much fake news was created using information cleaned from those hacks with false narratives added that half the population will always believe because it's the other party?
Targeting elected politicians, government officials, journalists & academics...
Looks like FBI successfully penetrated Advanced Persistent Threat group 31 to identify individual hackers. A few of them at least.