He told me also that there is an unidentified nuclear facility. Rather reported that Mendoza also provided "one more piece of information", quoting Lance as saying, "He said there were 10 Islamic pilots, at that moment in in America training in U. Embassy, including information that Osama bin Laden was funding Ramzi Yousef's plots. Another follow-on book, Triple Cross: The FBI allowed the chief spy for al-Qaida to operate right under their noses They let him plan the bombings of the embassies in Africa right under their noses.
Two hundred twenty-four people were killed and more than 4, wounded because of their negligence.
The publisher's summary for Triple Cross states: This is the story of the most dangerous triple-agent in US history. Peter Lance, author of the highly acclaimed Years for Revenge and Cover Up , returns to uncover the story of Ali Mohamed, a trusted security advisor of Osama bin Laden who hoodwinked the United States for more than a decade.
In October , after tricking three U. His crimes included brokering terror summits, financing an attack on two Black Hawk helicopters, training jihadis in improvised bomb building and the creation of secret cells. And yet, for decades Mohamed had lived the life of a Silicon Valley computer executive. How did this evildoer move in and out of and around the U. In the fall of , Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald , who was an assistant U. However the publisher is located in New York.
Fitzgerald pressed his claim in 32 pages of threat letters sent to HarperCollins over 20 months. Fitzgerald never made good on his threat to sue, despite a "dare" from Lance published in The Huffington Post a month after the publication of Triple Cross. Published under the headline, "Mr. Seven weeks ago Patrick Fitzgerald, the most intimidating Federal prosecutor in America, sent my publisher HarperCollins and me a letter threatening to sue us for libel if Triple Cross , a book I wrote, critical of his anti-terrorism track record, was published.
Yesterday marked the four-week anniversary of the book's pub date and although it's been out for a month, we're still waiting for his summons and complaint. It was the fourth threat letter that Fitzgerald had sent since October and the man who'd succeeded in getting New York Times reporter Judith Miller jailed for 85 days in the CIA leak probe was growing impatient The new edition of Triple Cross added material, including 26 pages detailing Fitzgerald's attempts to suppress the book.
At a press conference for the new edition at the National Press Club in Washington, covered by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press , Lance is quoted as saying "Fitzgerald is particularly sensitive to the issues discussed in the book because if they prove true, the prosecutor could face legal fallout of his own.
Anthony Shaffer intelligence officer. Burton Turkus and Sid Feder, first published in In the forward to that book Lance discusses how his examination of the FBI's counter-terrorism investigations led him to discover an extraordinary link between the FBI and a Bureau sting of an al Qaeda terrorist, in Federal jail in Lower Manhattan, conducted with the help of a captain in the Colombo crime family:. One piece of intelligence from Scarpa Jr. According to the publisher's book description on Amazon. Lindley DeVecchio was considered one of the Bureau's top agents on organized crime.
With contacts at the highest levels of the mob, he offered the Feds an unprecedented window into the workings of the Brooklyn families—and tips he supplied led to more than 70 successful prosecutions that helped propel a young district attorney named Rudolph Giuliani to national prominence. Yet, by the s it was charged that "Mr. Organized Crime", as DeVecchio was known, had taken his infiltration too far.
For years Scarpa was DeVecchio's informant—but some evidence allegedly suggested that Scarpa had provided him information that the mobster used in three murders during the Colombo mob wars of the s. Though the DeVecchio story was only a subplot in a cover up, after its publication Hynes' office filed charges against DeVecchio—and cited Lance's investigation as a wonderful springboard to understand the story. Lance was subpoenaed by defense attorneys in connection with the trial. And yet in late , the case against DeVecchio was dramatically dropped when the credibility of a key witness unrelated to Lance's reporting was impugned.
While contesting the charges against him Lance proceeded with his own investigation of the practices of the Santa Barbara police department, the results published in a part series for the Santa Barbara News-Press. In the series, Lance alleges that the police systematically falsified evidence to obtain DUI convictions. The Santa Barbara News-Press series charged that officer Beutel used pre-filled forms that would meet certain criteria "to guarantee a successful DUI arrest".
Lance told the Santa Barbara Independent: In the News-Press series Lance also wrote that officer Beutel "may have committed bankruptcy fraud in "; that she "perjured herself during divorce proceedings in "; and that "she'd suborned the perjury of the minister who married her in by asking him to back-date her marriage license so that she might receive more post-divorce support". In October the News-Press published a new five-part series by Lance that reported on "a local defense lawyer who suspected that someone in law enforcement had planted heroin on one of his clients — a woman arrested on suspicion of DUI by Officer Beutel" [50] On October 7, , Lance wrote: At first I didn't believe it, despite the evidence I'd assembled by then, proving that Officer Beutel, the former head of the Santa Barbara Police Department's Drinking Driver Team and two-time Top DUI officer in the county had falsified police reports, committed perjury on a DMV form, witnessed at least five forged blood test waivers, withheld evidence from two suspects in violation of Brady rules, and pre-checked DUI forms before going into the field, suggesting a pre-determined mindset to frame innocent drivers.
I'd uncovered additional evidence regarding the accountant-turned-cop possibly committing bankruptcy fraud in and perjury in the course of divorce proceedings just months before she donned the uniform of the Santa Barbara Police Department in Knowing all of that, I refused to accept that a sworn officer of the law could do something as repugnant as planting drugs on a suspect, much less heroin. Still, as with all the evidence in this investigation, I vetted the allegation with an open mind.
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Over the months since then, as more and more information surfaced, including a videotape from County Jail where the discovery of the drug took place, I came to believe that it wasn't just possible, but probable that someone in law enforcement — perhaps Officer Beutel — had intentionally planted that bindle of black tar heroin at the feet of the DUI suspect, causing the District Attorney's Office to charge her on additional charges beyond driving under the influence.
The move came after the recommendation of the Santa Barbara County Grand Jury in October, following Lance's first series in which he reported for the first time that the SBPD was the largest police agency in the county without onboard video in patrol units; a factor that can lead to misconduct in DUI arrests. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Newport, Rhode Island , United States. Retrieved September 3, The New York Times , April 10, ]. Newsweek June 5, The Huffington Post , July 15, But at that point Winston III began using and he got careless. At the time of his arraignment there was a pilot project that allowed first time offenders to opt for military service rather than prison. The judge told him that if he could make it through basic training and stay clean for his two year hitch, his criminal record would be expunged.
Twenty-four hours later, he was on a bus to Fort Jackson, South Carolina.
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So Winston spent his off hours bulking up, working out and studying long into the night. He finished first in his Platoon and won the O. He now decided to believe in the U. He graduated fourth in his class, the only OC in his rotation without a college degree. After Benning, Winston had the pick of assignments and chose the U. Army Garrison in Stuttgart, Germany where he distinguished himself as an M. Then in , at the age of 21, he had an experience that redefined his life. Attached to a special V Corps investigative unit probing possible war crimes by Serbian nationalists, he walked onto the huge unmarked grave that was the site of the Srebrenica Massacre.
But soon, he became weak in the knees as he worked with a team of U.
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The day he ended that tour of duty was the day that Winston Jamal decided who he was. He was a man who hated bullies; those who presumed; those who felt that they had an option on truth; those who used force to impose their own will on others. His time at the mass grave in Bosnia had convinced him that the ultimate act of a bully was homicide: The consequence was that the bully stayed alive and his victim was dead.
So after re-upping for another tour, Winston returned to Chicago determined that he would spend the rest of his career investigating violent death. Through intelligence, drive and an innate ability to earn the trust of his subordinates, he rose quickly through the ranks.
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Now, approaching his forty third birthday, he was the head of the Squad and facing the most important multiple death case of his U. Now, at that moment, as word filtered in though his contacts at DEA that Axel had led two helicopters and a pair of FBI Suburbans down the Chicago River with Deputy Bergstrom in the back of a boat, he was on a heightened state of readiness.
There was little he could do in the meantime but wait. But as he stared at the wall of victims in that control room, the Captain said two prayers: He prayed that they would stop the bully Axel that night before he took another life. Your email address will not be published.
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