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Trump’s spying on left-wing groups recalls J Edgar Hoover’s Cointelpro | Ken Roth

The FBI from the 1950s to the 1970s tried to infiltrate and discredit leftist organizations. Trump seems to be repeating that sordid practice It is bad enough that the Trump administration blocked a federal criminal investigation when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent killed Renee Good as she was turning her car away from him in Minneapolis the past January. Just before the…

Trump’s spying on left-wing groups recalls J Edgar Hoover’s Cointelpro | Ken Roth

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Inside "the Pool": Fugitive arrested in alleged cross-border car trade scheme

Along the Texas-Mexico border, prosecutors say a group of businessmen found a way to monopolize the trade of used cars — a scheme called "the Pool." This week, authorities say they caught one alleged…

  • Federal authorities arrest Carlos Martinez in cross-border car trade scheme
  • Rigoberto Brown, Martinez's son-in-law, charged with price-fixing conspiracy
  • Brown apprehended near McAllen, Texas after 4-year evasion

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