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This is a cyber attack that has been ongoing since August and has shut down Jaguar Land Rover here in the UK. it is costing them £50m daily in lost production. What is going on here? Is this a new criminal threat now? The ransomware in the airports is also a criminal cyber attack. And now this UN/NYC cyber attack.

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Jaguar Land Rover shutdown extended again after cyber attack

The business secretary will also meet suppliers of the car maker who are at risk of closure.
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A man has been arrested for the airports cyber attack and has been bailed.


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Man, 40s, arrested over cyber attack which crippled European airports

A man in his 40s has been arrested over a cyber attack that crippled Heathrow and other European airports over the weekend.
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JLR cyber attack details.

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Jaguar Land Rover shutdown extended again after cyber attack

The business secretary will also meet suppliers of the car maker who are at risk of closure.
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This one below was a previous cyber attack on TfL but also notice the additional attacks against US health care companies SSM and Sutter. I copied pasta below on this one.


Two men have been charged as part of the National Crime Agency investigation into a cyber attack on Transport for London (TfL).
TfL was subject of a network intrusion on 31 August 2024, which investigators believe was carried out by members of the online criminal collective known as Scattered Spider.
Thalha Jubair, 19, from East London, and Owen Flowers, 18, from Walsall, West Midlands, were arrested at their home addresses on Tuesday (16 September) by the NCA and City of London Police.
Both appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court today (18 September), after the Crown Prosecution Service authorised they be charged with conspiring together to commit unauthorised acts against TfL, under the Computer Misuse Act.
Flowers was initially arrested for the TfL attack on 6 September 2024, at which point NCA officers identified further potential evidence of offending against US healthcare companies.
Therefore, Flowers has today also been charged with conspiring with others to infiltrate and damage the networks of SSM Health Care Corporation and attempting to do the same to Sutter Health’s networks, both based in the US.
Jubair has been additionally charged under RIPA for failing to disclose the pin or passwords for devices seized from him.
Flowers and Jubair have been remanded into custody and are both due to appear at Southwark Crown Court on 16 October 2025.
Deputy Director Paul Foster, head of the NCA’s National Cyber Crime Unit, said:
“Today’s charges are a key step in what has been a lengthy and complex investigation.
“This attack caused significant disruption and millions in losses to TfL, part of the UK’s critical national infrastructure.
“Earlier this year, the NCA warned of an increase in the threat from cyber criminals based in the UK and other English-speaking countries, of which Scattered Spider is a clear example.
“The NCA, UK policing and our international partners, including the FBI, are collectively committed to identifying offenders within these networks and ensuring they face justice.”
The NCA investigation has also been supported by the West Midlands Regional Organised Crime Unit and British Transport Police.
Hannah Von Dadelszen, Chief Crown Prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said:
“The Crown Prosecution Service has decided to prosecute Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers with computer misuse and fraud related charges – following a National Crime Agency investigation into a cyber-attack on the Transport for London network.
“Our prosecutors have worked to establish that there is sufficient evidence to bring the case to trial and that it is in the public interest to pursue criminal proceedings.
“We have worked closely with the National Crime Agency as they carried out their investigation.”
Victims of cybercrime should use the Government’s Cyber Incident Signposting Site for direction on which agencies to report an incident to.
The Cyber Choices programme helps people make informed choices to use their cyber skills in a legal way. Visit www.cyberchoices.uk.
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Indictment planned for former FBI directorJames Comey.



WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors are expected to ask a grand jury to indict former FBI Director James Comey in the Eastern District of Virginia in the coming days, MSNBC reported on Wednesday, citing three sources.
"The full extent of the charges being prepared against Comey is unclear, but the sources believe that at least one element of the indictment—if it goes forward--will accuse him of lying to Congress during his testimony on September 30, 2020 about whether he authorized a leak of information," a MSNBC reporter wrote on X.
 
Another cyber attack. This time against a nursery chain.

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Children's names, pictures and addresses stolen in nursery hack

Experts have condemned the hack as an "absolute new low" for cyber-crime.
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Colourful toys on a nursery table, one of is being held by a child and an adult simultaneously. We can only see their hands and sleeves.
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ByJoe Tidy
Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service
    • Published
      25 September 2025, 14:24 BST
Updated 41 minutes ago
Hackers say they have stolen the pictures, names and addresses of around 8,000 children from the Kido nursery chain.
The gang of cyber criminals is using the highly sensitive information to demand a ransom from the company, which has 18 sites in and around London, with more in the US and India.
The criminals say they also have information about the children's parents and carers as well as safeguarding notes.
They claim to have contacted some parents by phone as part of their extortion tactics.
The BBC has contacted Kido for comment. It is yet to confirm the hackers' claims.
But an employee at one of the nurseries confirmed they have been notified of a data breach.
Cyber-security firm Check Point described the targeting of nurseries as "an absolute new low".
One of its experts Graeme Stuart said: "To deliberately put children and schools in the firing line, is indefensible. Frankly, it is appalling."
The hacking group responsible for the claims appears to be relatively new and calls itself Radiant.
The cyber criminals contacted the BBC about the hack and have subsequently posted details of it to their darknet website.
It has published a sample of data there including pictures and profiles of 10 children from the stolen data set.
It has been published as part of their attempt to extort money from the nursery chain, which has its 18 nurseries mostly in the London area.
Police advise not to pay ransoms as it further fuels the cyber-crime ecosystem.
When asked by BBC News if they felt bad about extorting a nursery using the children's data, the criminals said they "weren't asking for an enormous amount" and they "deserve some compensation for our pentest."
A "pentest" - or penetration test - is the term for when ethical hackers are hired to assess the security of an organisation in a controlled and professional way.
These hackers however attacked the nursery chain without their permission.
"Of course" it's about money, they admitted to the BBC.
The hack is the latest in a series of high-profile cyber-attacks, which has seen production grind to a halt at Jaguar Land Rover, and caused massive disruption to M&S and the Co-op.
Rebecca Moody, head of data research at software firm Comparitech, said the nature of the data posted online raised "alarm bells".
"We've seen some low claims from ransomware gangs before, but this feels like an entirely different level," she said.
She said the firm should contact anyone affected by the data breach "as a matter of urgency".
The BBC has approached the National Crime Agency for comment.
Additional reporting by Graham Fraser, Technology reporter
 
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Another cyber attack. This time against a nursery chain.

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Children's names, pictures and addresses stolen in nursery hack

Experts have condemned the hack as an "absolute new low" for cyber-crime.
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Colourful toys on a nursery table, one of is being held by a child and an adult simultaneously. We can only see their hands and sleeves.
Image source,Getty Images
ByJoe Tidy
Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service

    • Published
      25 September 2025, 14:24 BST
Updated 41 minutes ago
Hackers say they have stolen the pictures, names and addresses of around 8,000 children from the Kido nursery chain.
The gang of cyber criminals is using the highly sensitive information to demand a ransom from the company, which has 18 sites in and around London, with more in the US and India.
The criminals say they also have information about the children's parents and carers as well as safeguarding notes.
They claim to have contacted some parents by phone as part of their extortion tactics.
The BBC has contacted Kido for comment. It is yet to confirm the hackers' claims.
But an employee at one of the nurseries confirmed they have been notified of a data breach.
Cyber-security firm Check Point described the targeting of nurseries as "an absolute new low".
One of its experts Graeme Stuart said: "To deliberately put children and schools in the firing line, is indefensible. Frankly, it is appalling."
The hacking group responsible for the claims appears to be relatively new and calls itself Radiant.
The cyber criminals contacted the BBC about the hack and have subsequently posted details of it to their darknet website.
It has published a sample of data there including pictures and profiles of 10 children from the stolen data set.
It has been published as part of their attempt to extort money from the nursery chain, which has its 18 nurseries mostly in the London area.
Police advise not to pay ransoms as it further fuels the cyber-crime ecosystem.
When asked by BBC News if they felt bad about extorting a nursery using the children's data, the criminals said they "weren't asking for an enormous amount" and they "deserve some compensation for our pentest."
A "pentest" - or penetration test - is the term for when ethical hackers are hired to assess the security of an organisation in a controlled and professional way.
These hackers however attacked the nursery chain without their permission.
"Of course" it's about money, they admitted to the BBC.
The hack is the latest in a series of high-profile cyber-attacks, which has seen production grind to a halt at Jaguar Land Rover, and caused massive disruption to M&S and the Co-op.
Rebecca Moody, head of data research at software firm Comparitech, said the nature of the data posted online raised "alarm bells".
"We've seen some low claims from ransomware gangs before, but this feels like an entirely different level," she said.
She said the firm should contact anyone affected by the data breach "as a matter of urgency".
The BBC has approached the National Crime Agency for comment.
Additional reporting by Graham Fraser, Technology reporter
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Innocence Project: Chad Heins

Nearly 11 years after he was wrongfully convicted of murdering his sister-in-law in northern Florida, Chad Heins was exonerated in 2007.
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Chad Heins​

Nearly 11 years after he was wrongfully convicted of murdering his sister-in-law in northern Florida, Chad Heins was exonerated on December 4, 2007, due to DNA evidence proving that another man committed the crime.​

The Crime
On the night of April 17, 1994, Tina Heins was brutally stabbed to death in the Mayport, Florida, apartment she shared with her husband, Jeremy Heins, and Jeremy’s brother Chad Heins. Jeremy, who was in the Navy, was on board his ship that night. Nineteen-year-old Chad, who had recently moved to Jacksonville and was waiting for his fiancée in Wisconsin to join him, slept on the living room sofa. Chad had returned home at 12:30 a.m. that night, two hours before his sister-in-law, and was asleep during the crime. He woke up around 5:45 a.m. to find three small fires burning in the living room and kitchen, one on the very sofa where he slept. After putting out the fires and disarming the smoke alarm, he discovered Tina Heins in her bedroom; she had been stabbed 27 times.
The Trial and Conviction
Besides his presence in the apartment, there was no evidence implicating Chad Heins in the murder—no blood on his clothes or under his fingernails, no scratches or scrapes on his body, and no murder weapon found. A forensic analyst testified that DNA testing performed before Heins’ trial on three hairs collected from the victim’s bedroom showed that the hairs came from one person, and that person wasn’t Chad or Jeremy Heins. The testimony was faulty, however, because the analyst failed to give statistics for the percent of the population that would match the hairs. There was strong evidence that Chad had a sleep disorder and was very difficult to rouse, especially after he had been drinking, as he had been on the night of the crime.
However, despite the biological evidence of an unknown attacker and other evidence of his innocence, prosecutors charged Chad with the murder on the theory that he killed Tina in a jealous rage. Two jailhouse snitches testified at his trial that he had spontaneously confessed his guilt to them, and he was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder and attempted sexual battery on December 20, 1996, and sentenced to life in prison.
Post-conviction Appeals
In 2001, Heins wrote to the Innocence Project, which took the case with help from the Innocence Project of Florida. In 2003, along with pro bono counsel Robert Beckham of Holland & Knight, the Innocence Project filed a motion for DNA testing on skin cells collected at autopsy from underneath the victim’s fingernails. She had defense wounds on her hands, meaning that biological evidence from the attacker could be under her fingernails. The DNA test results showed that male DNA under Tina’s fingernails did not come from Chad or Jeremy Heins. Chad’s attorneys then asked the state to conduct further testing, to compare the unknown male DNA found from the fingernail scrapings to the three hairs found on Tina’s body that were shown before trial to come from an unknown person. Additional testing in 2005 showed that the profile from the hairs was consistent with the DNA from the fingernails—all belonging to a single, unknown male.
Also during the appeals process, attorneys for Heins learned that a fingerprint had been discovered before trial on the faucet of the blood-stained sink in the Heins’ bathroom, where it was undisputed that the perpetrator attempted to clean up after the murder. Police and prosecutors apparently knew before trial that this print came from someone other than Chad Heins, the victim or this victim’s husband, but the jury never learned of the print. It is unclear whether Heins’ defense attorney was informed about the print by prosecutors.
Heins’ conviction was vacated in 2006 based on the DNA evidence, but prosecutors prepared to retry him. He was moved from a Florida state prison to county jail to await the new trial. Robert Link, of Pajcic and Pajcic in Jacksonville, served as pro bono co-counsel in the retrial preparations and negotiations.
While preparing for the retrial, the Innocence Project sought further DNA testing on semen from the victim’s bed sheets. DNA test results released in November 2007 showed that the semen came from the same person as the hairs and the cells found under the victim’s fingernails. This evidence made it clear that the still-unidentified male whose DNA profile was discovered on both the hairs and the fingernail scrapings, and who may also have left the fingerprint, is the real perpetrator. The DNA profile was entered in convicted offender databases but did not yield a match to the true perpetrator.
The Exoneration
On December 4, 2007, prosecutors dropped the pending charges against Heins. Prosecutors said they were still investigating the crime. Heins, 33, had been incarcerated for 13 years (including 10 years in prison and three years in jail awaiting trial).
 
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Innocence Project: Chad Heins

Nearly 11 years after he was wrongfully convicted of murdering his sister-in-law in northern Florida, Chad Heins was exonerated in 2007.
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Chad Heins​

Nearly 11 years after he was wrongfully convicted of murdering his sister-in-law in northern Florida, Chad Heins was exonerated on December 4, 2007, due to DNA evidence proving that another man committed the crime.​

The Crime
On the night of April 17, 1994, Tina Heins was brutally stabbed to death in the Mayport, Florida, apartment she shared with her husband, Jeremy Heins, and Jeremy’s brother Chad Heins. Jeremy, who was in the Navy, was on board his ship that night. Nineteen-year-old Chad, who had recently moved to Jacksonville and was waiting for his fiancée in Wisconsin to join him, slept on the living room sofa. Chad had returned home at 12:30 a.m. that night, two hours before his sister-in-law, and was asleep during the crime. He woke up around 5:45 a.m. to find three small fires burning in the living room and kitchen, one on the very sofa where he slept. After putting out the fires and disarming the smoke alarm, he discovered Tina Heins in her bedroom; she had been stabbed 27 times.
The Trial and Conviction
Besides his presence in the apartment, there was no evidence implicating Chad Heins in the murder—no blood on his clothes or under his fingernails, no scratches or scrapes on his body, and no murder weapon found. A forensic analyst testified that DNA testing performed before Heins’ trial on three hairs collected from the victim’s bedroom showed that the hairs came from one person, and that person wasn’t Chad or Jeremy Heins. The testimony was faulty, however, because the analyst failed to give statistics for the percent of the population that would match the hairs. There was strong evidence that Chad had a sleep disorder and was very difficult to rouse, especially after he had been drinking, as he had been on the night of the crime.
However, despite the biological evidence of an unknown attacker and other evidence of his innocence, prosecutors charged Chad with the murder on the theory that he killed Tina in a jealous rage. Two jailhouse snitches testified at his trial that he had spontaneously confessed his guilt to them, and he was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder and attempted sexual battery on December 20, 1996, and sentenced to life in prison.
Post-conviction Appeals
In 2001, Heins wrote to the Innocence Project, which took the case with help from the Innocence Project of Florida. In 2003, along with pro bono counsel Robert Beckham of Holland & Knight, the Innocence Project filed a motion for DNA testing on skin cells collected at autopsy from underneath the victim’s fingernails. She had defense wounds on her hands, meaning that biological evidence from the attacker could be under her fingernails. The DNA test results showed that male DNA under Tina’s fingernails did not come from Chad or Jeremy Heins. Chad’s attorneys then asked the state to conduct further testing, to compare the unknown male DNA found from the fingernail scrapings to the three hairs found on Tina’s body that were shown before trial to come from an unknown person. Additional testing in 2005 showed that the profile from the hairs was consistent with the DNA from the fingernails—all belonging to a single, unknown male.
Also during the appeals process, attorneys for Heins learned that a fingerprint had been discovered before trial on the faucet of the blood-stained sink in the Heins’ bathroom, where it was undisputed that the perpetrator attempted to clean up after the murder. Police and prosecutors apparently knew before trial that this print came from someone other than Chad Heins, the victim or this victim’s husband, but the jury never learned of the print. It is unclear whether Heins’ defense attorney was informed about the print by prosecutors.
Heins’ conviction was vacated in 2006 based on the DNA evidence, but prosecutors prepared to retry him. He was moved from a Florida state prison to county jail to await the new trial. Robert Link, of Pajcic and Pajcic in Jacksonville, served as pro bono co-counsel in the retrial preparations and negotiations.
While preparing for the retrial, the Innocence Project sought further DNA testing on semen from the victim’s bed sheets. DNA test results released in November 2007 showed that the semen came from the same person as the hairs and the cells found under the victim’s fingernails. This evidence made it clear that the still-unidentified male whose DNA profile was discovered on both the hairs and the fingernail scrapings, and who may also have left the fingerprint, is the real perpetrator. The DNA profile was entered in convicted offender databases but did not yield a match to the true perpetrator.
The Exoneration
On December 4, 2007, prosecutors dropped the pending charges against Heins. Prosecutors said they were still investigating the crime. Heins, 33, had been incarcerated for 13 years (including 10 years in prison and three years in jail awaiting trial).
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Now we have the sheriffs dept giving themselves attaboys even though the tissue found under her fingernails did not match the person they charged and convicted and the facts prove that they did, in fact, give up on finding the real perpetrator since they got a conviction. It was the Innocence Project that didn't give up and I am sure if they weren't involved, the wrong guy would still be incarcerated.

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Cold case arrest: Former sailor arrested in pregnant Jacksonville woman's 1994 murder

State Attorney Melissa Nelson said a grand jury has indicted Michael Ziegler, 52, in connection to the 1994 murder of Tina Heins.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Authorities in Jacksonville Thursday announced the arrest of a former U.S. Navy sailor in a 31-year-old cold case.

During a press conference, State Attorney Melissa Nelson announced the arrest of 52-year-old Michael Ziegler in connection to the 1994 murder of Tina Heins.

In 1994, Nelson said Tina was murdered and sexually assaulted. She was 20 years old, four months pregnant and newly married, Nelson said.



Just after 6 a.m. on April 17, 1994, police responded to Tina's apartment in Jacksonville's Mayport area, where they found her stabbed to death on her bed. Nelson said she had been stabbed 27 times.

Multiple areas of her apartment were set on fire afterward.

Nelson said Tina's brother-in-law, Chad Heins, was asleep in the living room of the apartment at the time of Tina's killing, and that he woke up when the fire broke out, extinguishing it, before finding Tina killed.

Nelson said Chad then called 911.

"The investigation and evidence at that time pointed only to Chad Heins," Nelson said. "Chad's brother and Tina's husband, Jeremy Heins, was on-duty on a Navy ship at nearby NAS Mayport."

Nelson stated Chad was convicted of Tina's murder in 1996, then was sentenced to life in prison.

Then in the early-2000s, Nelson said new DNA technology came online that allowed law enforcement to test preserved evidence from Tina's body and bed in "a way that had not been available" at the time of her murder.

After testing the evidence with the new advanced DNA technology, Nelson said a DNA profile of an unknown man emerged.

"DNA from under Tina's nails, from hairs collected from her body, and from a semen stain on her sheets, were that of a man who was not her husband and was not her brother-in-law Chad," Nelson said.

Nelson said the DNA profile was then uploaded into a national database. The DNA profile ran weekly in the database for years without a hit, Nelson said.

Additionally during this time, Nelson said investigators collected DNA samples from people associated in both "large ways and small ways" to Tina. However, the DNA samples did not match up with the DNA profile.

Then in 2007, based on DNA evidence, Nelson said, the state dismissed the case against Chad Heins. Although investigators continued their efforts, Nelson said the DNA profile remained unidentified for the next 15 years.



"In 2021, after the breakthrough in the Golden State killer case, we sent, at the recommendation of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, what little DNA remained in this case to a lab in Texas, whose work was known to be highly successful in the identification of individual profiles from minute amounts of DNA, which was the case here," Nelson said. "A profile was developed, and the lab began genetic genealogy searches. Through genetic genealogy, the lab identified a likely match."

Nelson said detectives and forensic experts then confirmed the match to Ziegler.

According to Nelson, Ziegler was stationed at Naval Station Mayport aboard USS Leyte Gulf in 1994.

"He was not a stranger to Tina Heins," Nelson said. "Michael Ziegler was her husband Jeremy's very close friend. In fact, he stood witness at their courthouse wedding just five months before Tina was killed."

On Aug. 28, Nelson said Assistant State Attorney Alan Mizrahi presented the case to a Duval County grand jury, who then indicted Ziegler on first-degree murder and sexual battery charges.

Nelson said Ziegler was then arrested without incident near his home in Covington, Ga., outside of Atlanta, on Sept. 4. He is now in Duval County Jail with no bond.

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Michael Ziegler, 52, has been arrested in connection to the 1994 murder of 20-year-old Tina Heins.
 
Ex FBI Director James Comey indicted.



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Ex-FBI Director James Comey indicted: 5 things to know​


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Former FBI Director James Comey was hit with two federal charges late Thursday, days after President Trump ramped up pressure on his Justice Department to prosecute his most prominent adversaries. ​

The counts stem from testimony Comey gave before the Senate in 2020 as it probed investigations into ties Trump’s 2016 campaign had with Russia, which the president has long decried as a “witch hunt.”​

While Justice Department officials have portrayed the indictment as a step toward accountability, Comey said his “heart is broken” for the agency and that he is innocent.​

Comey is set to be arraigned Oct. 9 in federal court in Alexandria, Va. His case will be overseen by U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff, an appointee of former President Biden.​

Here are five things to know.​

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Comey faces obstruction, perjury charges​


Comey’s indictment includes two counts: false statements to Congress, and obstruction of a congressional proceeding.​

The felonies each carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison, though if convicted, Comey would be a first-time offender who would likely receive a lesser punishment.​

They stem from an exchange between Comey and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) during a Sept. 30, 2020, Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. ​

Cruz asked Comey if he had ever authorized a leak about the FBI’s investigations into Hillary Clinton’s emails and connections between the Trump campaign and Russia.​

The question zeroed in on conflicting accounts between Comey and his former deputy, Andrew McCabe, regarding a leak to The Wall Street Journal about the Clinton investigation days before the 2016 election.​

McCabe has indicated Comey knew about and authorized the leak. Comey maintains he was unaware and that McCabe in a conversation after the story published implied he, too, wasn’t involved.​

A 2018 inspector general report sided with Comey’s account, saying McCabe authorized the leak and “lacked candor” when he told his boss and later investigators that he didn’t.​

“What Mr. McCabe is saying and what you testified to this committee cannot both be true. One or the other is false. Who’s telling the truth?” Cruz pressed.​

Comey responded, “I can only speak to my testimony. I stand by the testimony you summarized.”​

The indictment does not identify a specific news story, but the charging documents allege Comey authorized an unnamed “Person 3” to leak details of an FBI investigation.​

ABC News and CNN reported Friday that refers to Daniel Richman, a Columbia Law School professor who has previously confirmed leaking a memo he received from Comey detailing the then-director’s interactions with Trump.​

The false statements charge requires prosecutors to prove that Comey “knowingly and willfully” made a “false, fictitious, or fraudulent” statement to Cruz, and it was material.​

The obstruction charge requires prosecutors to show that Comey in making a false statement corruptly endeavored “to influence, obstruct, or impede the due and proper administration of the law.”​

Comey is charged in the Eastern District of Virginia, because his congressional testimony was given remotely from his home in McLean, Va., due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ​

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Indictment followed Trump pressure campaign for charges​


The charges against Comey followed a pressure campaign from Trump, who over the weekend issued a direct call to Attorney General Pam Bondi to bring charges against Comey as well as others the president considers to be his political adversaries.​

“Pam: I have reviewed over 30 statements and posts saying that, essentially, ‘same old story as last time, all talk, no action. Nothing is being done. What about Comey, Adam “Shifty” Schiff, Leticia??? They’re all guilty as hell, but nothing is going to be done,’” Trump posted on social media, referencing Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D).​

“There is a GREAT CASE….We can’t delay any longer.”​

Those comments came after the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Erik Siebert, resigned under pressure to bring charges against Comey and James. Siebert reportedly had held off due to a lack of evidence in the cases.​

Trump swiftly installed Lindsey Halligan, who was tapped as an interim replacement. Halligan, a White House staffer who practiced insurance law before she joined his criminal defense team in 2022, has never tried a federal case. ​

Just days later, Trump officials brought an indictment before a grand jury, borrowing a line popular among Democrats in announcing the move.​

“No one is above the law,” Bondi said.​

FBI Director Kash Patel, who worked on a review of the 2016 investigation as a staffer on the House Intelligence Committee, also implied Comey was corrupt.​

“Nowhere was this politicization of law enforcement more blatant than during the Russiagate hoax, a disgraceful chapter in history we continue to investigate and expose,” he wrote in a post on social media.​

“Everyone, especially those in positions of power, will be held to account – no matter their perch.” ​

Comey’s testimony before the Senate came on Sept. 30, 2020, meaning the indictment was filed just days before the five-year statute of limitations in the case was set to expire.​

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Grand jury declined to indict on 1 count​


Though Comey was indicted on two charges, court papers show federal prosecutors initially pursued three.​

The Justice Department asked a federal grand jury to indict Comey on another count of making false statements to Congress stemming from an exchange with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) during the same Sept. 30, 2020, hearing.​

Graham asked Comey whether he recalled “being taught” of Clinton’s “approval of a plan” to use talk of Trump and Russian hackers interfering in U.S. elections as a means of distracting from her use of a private email server. ​

Comey replied, “That doesn’t ring any bells with me.”​

“OK. Well, that’s a pretty stunning thing, it didn’t ring a bell,” Graham said in return.​

The grand jury’s foreperson indicated that 12 or more grand jurors did not agree to indict on the charge regarding the exchange, meaning prosecutors could not move forward with it. ​

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Comey professes his innocence​


Comey responded to news of his own indictment in a short video posted to Instagram, professing his innocence and vowing he would not be intimidated by the administration’s charges against him.​

“Somebody that I love dearly recently said that ‘fear is the tool of a tyrant.’ And she’s right,” Comey said in the video, quoting what his daughter, Maurene, said after she was fired as a federal prosecutor in July. ​

“But I’m not afraid, and I hope you’re not either. I hope instead you are engaged. You are paying attention, and you will vote like your beloved country depends upon it, which it does,” Comey added.​

“My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system,” he said. “And I’m innocent. So, let’s have a trial. And keep the faith.”​

Comey, who earned the ire of Democrats in 2016 with his handling of an investigation into then-candidate Clinton’s email server, had become increasingly outspoken since his departure from the FBI in pushing back against Trump.​

The former FBI director endorsed former President Biden in the 2020 election and backed former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 race against Trump.​

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The latest chapter in the Trump-Comey feud​


Thursday’s indictment followed years of attacks from Trump against Comey.​

Trump fired Comey as FBI director in 2017 while the bureau’s investigation was still ongoing, leading to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller. Trump and Comey have had an adversarial relationship ever since, with Trump calling Comey a “dirty cop” and saying he and other FBI leaders were “scum.”​

The president earlier this year alleged an Instagram post from Comey that featured seashells on a beach arranged to form the numbers “8647” was a call for his assassination. Stemming from the hospitality industry, “86” can refer to either the need to cut off a client or unlist a menu item.​

Democrats and other Trump critics were quick to sound the alarm, suggesting Comey’s indictment was an indication the president was willing to use the Justice Department against his opponents.​

“Donald Trump has made clear that he intends to turn our justice system into a weapon for punishing and silencing his critics,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a statement.​

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, called Comey’s indictment “one of the most sickening abuses of power in the history of the DOJ.”​

“Trump is using every tool available to get vengeance on his political rivals. It’s corruption plain and simple— our country deserves better,” Himes posted on the social platform X.​

Updated at 5:14 p.m. EDT​

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This almost sounds like the plot to a movie. Even the investigator's name, Matt McCool, sounds made up, but it seems deadly serious.



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Secret Service foils massive plot to cripple NYC cell network and threaten UN General Assembly

Investigators discovered the trove of devices — including more than 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards — within 35 miles of the United Nations.
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“It can take down cell towers, so then no longer can people communicate, right? …. You can’t text message, you can’t use your cell phone. And if you coupled that with some sort of other event associated with UNGA, you know, use your imagination there, it could be catastrophic to the city,” Matt McCool, the special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s New York field office, said.
“Given the timing, location and proximity and potential for significant disruptions to the New York telecoms system, we moved quickly to disrupt this network.”
 
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Now we have the sheriffs dept giving themselves attaboys even though the tissue found under her fingernails did not match the person they charged and convicted and the facts prove that they did, in fact, give up on finding the real perpetrator since they got a conviction. It was the Innocence Project that didn't give up and I am sure if they weren't involved, the wrong guy would still be incarcerated.

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Cold case arrest: Former sailor arrested in pregnant Jacksonville woman's 1994 murder

State Attorney Melissa Nelson said a grand jury has indicted Michael Ziegler, 52, in connection to the 1994 murder of Tina Heins.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Authorities in Jacksonville Thursday announced the arrest of a former U.S. Navy sailor in a 31-year-old cold case.

During a press conference, State Attorney Melissa Nelson announced the arrest of 52-year-old Michael Ziegler in connection to the 1994 murder of Tina Heins.

In 1994, Nelson said Tina was murdered and sexually assaulted. She was 20 years old, four months pregnant and newly married, Nelson said.



Just after 6 a.m. on April 17, 1994, police responded to Tina's apartment in Jacksonville's Mayport area, where they found her stabbed to death on her bed. Nelson said she had been stabbed 27 times.

Multiple areas of her apartment were set on fire afterward.

Nelson said Tina's brother-in-law, Chad Heins, was asleep in the living room of the apartment at the time of Tina's killing, and that he woke up when the fire broke out, extinguishing it, before finding Tina killed.

Nelson said Chad then called 911.

"The investigation and evidence at that time pointed only to Chad Heins," Nelson said. "Chad's brother and Tina's husband, Jeremy Heins, was on-duty on a Navy ship at nearby NAS Mayport."

Nelson stated Chad was convicted of Tina's murder in 1996, then was sentenced to life in prison.

Then in the early-2000s, Nelson said new DNA technology came online that allowed law enforcement to test preserved evidence from Tina's body and bed in "a way that had not been available" at the time of her murder.

After testing the evidence with the new advanced DNA technology, Nelson said a DNA profile of an unknown man emerged.

"DNA from under Tina's nails, from hairs collected from her body, and from a semen stain on her sheets, were that of a man who was not her husband and was not her brother-in-law Chad," Nelson said.

Nelson said the DNA profile was then uploaded into a national database. The DNA profile ran weekly in the database for years without a hit, Nelson said.

Additionally during this time, Nelson said investigators collected DNA samples from people associated in both "large ways and small ways" to Tina. However, the DNA samples did not match up with the DNA profile.

Then in 2007, based on DNA evidence, Nelson said, the state dismissed the case against Chad Heins. Although investigators continued their efforts, Nelson said the DNA profile remained unidentified for the next 15 years.



"In 2021, after the breakthrough in the Golden State killer case, we sent, at the recommendation of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, what little DNA remained in this case to a lab in Texas, whose work was known to be highly successful in the identification of individual profiles from minute amounts of DNA, which was the case here," Nelson said. "A profile was developed, and the lab began genetic genealogy searches. Through genetic genealogy, the lab identified a likely match."

Nelson said detectives and forensic experts then confirmed the match to Ziegler.

According to Nelson, Ziegler was stationed at Naval Station Mayport aboard USS Leyte Gulf in 1994.

"He was not a stranger to Tina Heins," Nelson said. "Michael Ziegler was her husband Jeremy's very close friend. In fact, he stood witness at their courthouse wedding just five months before Tina was killed."

On Aug. 28, Nelson said Assistant State Attorney Alan Mizrahi presented the case to a Duval County grand jury, who then indicted Ziegler on first-degree murder and sexual battery charges.

Nelson said Ziegler was then arrested without incident near his home in Covington, Ga., outside of Atlanta, on Sept. 4. He is now in Duval County Jail with no bond.

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Credit: Jacksonville Sheriff's Office

Michael Ziegler, 52, has been arrested in connection to the 1994 murder of 20-year-old Tina Heins.
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Wow! What a story.
 
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3 killed and 8 injured in North Carolina waterfront bar shooting

A shooting at a waterfront bar in North Carolina has left three people dead and at least eight others wounded
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On Saturday, September 27, 2025 at approximately 9:30 PM, members of the Southport Police Department were dispatched to calls of shots fired with multiple injuries at the American Fish Company, located at 150 Yacht Basin Dr, Southport, NC 28461.

Just prior, a boat with a single occupant traveling on the Cape Fear River, paused briefly at the American Fish Company and opened fire, fatally wounding three patrons, and injuring at least eight others. The boat then fled the area, towards the Intracoastal Waterway in the direction of Oak Island.

Shortly after 10:00 PM, the U.S. Coast Guard observed a single individual matching the description of the shooter, loading their boat at the public boat ramp at NE 55th Street in Oak Island. The Coast Guard crew detained this suspect, who is now being held by the Oak Island Police Department, and will be turned over to the Southport Police Department for questioning, with assistance from the State Bureau of Investigation.

IMPORTANTLY, there is currently no known further credible threat to the public. Officers and Deputies from multiple agencies are in place to help ensure additional security for the greater area.

This investigation is still in an immediate response stage; however, further updates on suspect identity and charges will be provided directly by the City of Southport as they become available.

Updates will be added to the original social media notice published by the City of Southport; to view this ongoing thread, visit the City of Southport Facebook page at Facebook.com/CityofSouthPortNC or click the link below
 
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