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Sherry Williams, executive director of One Treasure Island, poses for a photo at her office on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, in San Francisco. Business Email Compromise scams are a type of crime where criminals hack into email accounts, pretend to be someone they're not and fool victims into sending money to places they aren't supposed to. In the case of Williams, the San Francisco nonprofit director, thieves hacked the email account of the nonprofit's bookkeeper then inserted themselves into a long email thread, sent messages asking to change the wire payment instructions for a grant recipient, and made off with $650,000. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Accounts deceivable: Email scam costliest type of cybercrime

By Alan Suderman - Associated Press

Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during the New York State Democratic Convention in New York, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann lied to FBI in text messages, Durham says

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Christopher Steele, a former British spy who wrote a 2016 dossier about alleged links between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, is seen in this Wednesday July 22, 2020, file photo. In a stunning move, The Washington Post on Nov. 12, 2021, corrected earlier reporting that relied on the discredited Steele dossier, removing large portions from the articles about former President Trump’s alleged ties to Russia. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP) **FILE**

Clinton campaign lawyer tries to keep Christopher Steele, dossier out of trial

By Alex Swoyer and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, questions Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Sen. Ted Cruz requests oversight hearing of FBI after agents’ rule-breaking exposed

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

The J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building is shown on Monday, March 4, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

FBI audit reveals agents broke rules to break the law

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

This June 14, 2018, file photo shows an FBI seal on a podium before a news conference at the agency's headquarters in Washington. The FBI and other federal government agencies are increasingly looking to counter cyberthreats through tools other than criminal indictments. That's according to the bureau’s top cyber official. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Biden scraps Trump plan to keep FBI headquarters in D.C.

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

FILE - This file booking photo provided by the Delaware Department of Justice shows Barry Croft. Four members of anti-government groups are facing trial this week on federal charges accusing them in a chilling plot to abduct Michigan's Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, in 2020. Jury selection begins Tuesday, March 8, 2022, in a trial the presiding judge at the U.S. District Court courthouse in Grand Rapids, Mich., said could take over a month. (Delaware Department of Justice via AP, File)

Man in Gov. Whitmer plot trial talked about hanging leaders

By Ed White - Associated Press

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., right, talks with Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking member, left, before the start of a committee business meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March 28, 2022, regarding Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Senators request Justice Department inspector general review FBI agents’ rule-breaking

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., center, speaks with the media outside the federal courthouse in Los Angeles, Thursday, March 22, 2022. Fortenberry was convicted Thursday of charges that he lied to federal authorities about an illegal $30,000 contribution to his campaign from a foreign billionaire at a 2016 Los Angeles fundraiser. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

Fortenberry resigns from Congress

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., right, and wife, Celeste, arrive at the federal courthouse for his trial in Los Angeles, Wednesday, March 16, 2022. Fortenberry was convicted Thursday, March 24, 2022, of charges that he lied to federal authorities about an illegal $30,000 contribution to his campaign from a foreign billionaire at a 2016 Los Angeles fundraiser. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) **FiLE**

McCarthy calls on convicted GOP congressman to resign

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

This Feb 23, 2019, photo shows the inside of a computer. The Biden administration will offer rewards up to $10 million for information leading to the identification of foreign state-sanctioned malicious cyber activity against critical U.S. infrastructure, including ransomware attacks. The administration is launching the website stopransomware.gov to offer the public resources for countering the threat. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane) **FILE**

FBI reports record-high internet crime, losses in billions for 2021

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

FBI Director Christopher A. Wray speaks at a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington Nov. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Lawmakers question if FBI director misled Congress after audit revealed agents’ rule-breaking

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 9, 2018, file photo, Tony Montalto, father of Gina Rose, a victim of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, speaks during a news conference in Sunrise, Fla. Montalto, whose 14-year-old daughter Gina was killed, is president of "Stand with Parkland," a group composed of parents and spouses of the victims. Montalto is surrounded by other family members of those killed. Parents of victims in Florida's 2018 high school massacre say they are glad to see the federal government reach a $127.5 million settlement over FBI inaction in the case, and hope a future tragedy can be prevented. (Taimy Alvarez/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, File)

Parkland families welcome $127.5M federal settlement

By Adriana Gomez Licon - Associated Press

This June 14, 2018, file photo shows an FBI seal on a podium before a news conference at the agency's headquarters in Washington. The FBI and other federal government agencies are increasingly looking to counter cyberthreats through tools other than criminal indictments. That's according to the bureau’s top cyber official. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

EXCLUSIVE: FBI says it attempted to fix agents’ widespread rule-breaking on sensitive investigations

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 30, 2017, file photo, the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building is seen in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

House lawmakers demand answers on FBI operations after audit reveals rules broken in investigations

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

This police camera video provided by The Moab Police Department shows Gabrielle Gabby Petito talking to a police officer after police pulled over the van she was traveling in with her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, near the entrance to Arches National Park on Aug. 12, 2021. The couple was pulled over while they were having an emotional fight. Petito was reported missing by her family a month later and is now the subject of a nationwide search. (The Moab Police Department via AP)

Gabby Petito’s parents sue Brian Laundrie’s parents

By Curt Anderson - Associated Press

A federal agent stands in front of property connected to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska as members of the New York Police Department patrol the area, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021, in New York. More than half of Republican voters believe the FBI is acting as President Biden's personal secret state police, according to a poll released Tuesday. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

EXCLUSIVE: Audit reveals FBI rule-breaking in probes involving politicians, religious groups, media

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

FILE - This 2018 portrait released by the U.S. Department of Justice shows Connecticut's U.S. Attorney John Durham. A judge handling the case of a lawyer charged with lying to the FBI during its probe into 2016 Russian election interference is reminding attorneys that their legal filings are under a microscope. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper says he is the only audience that should matter to them. (U.S. Department of Justice via AP, File)

Judge: John Durham created a ‘sideshow’ with Michael Sussmann legal filing

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

FILE - In an Oct. 8, 2020 file photo, provided by the Michigan Office of the Governor, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer addresses the state during a speech in Lansing, Mich. Opening statements are Wednesday, March 8, 2022, for the trial of four men charged with plotting to kidnap Whitmer. Prosecutors say the men conspired to kidnap the Democratic governor in 2020 because they were angry about COVID-19 restrictions she imposed .(Michigan Office of the Governor via AP File)

Trial in Michigan Gov. Whitmer plot focuses on entrapment

By Michael Tarm and Ed White and Sara Burnett - Associated Press

In this file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump (right) greets Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (left) prior to his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin (center) during the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

Former AG Bill Barr says FBI’s Trump-Russia probe put Moscow where it is today

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times