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While the former president pardoned Duncan Hunter for his criminal actions, he did not include civil violations.

SAN DIEGO — The full extent of an unprecedented FBI effort to beat the criminal underworld at its own encrypted-communications game became clearer Tuesday following a two-day takedown, with some 800 arrests worldwide and San Diego racketeering indictments against 17 high-level targets, according to federal authorities. Dubbed Operation Trojan Shield, the effort was largely led by FBI agents and federal prosecutors in San Diego who covertly created a closed-loop encryption cellphone service, called ANOM, and then convinced trusted voices already embedded in criminal syndicates to distribu...

A tale of FBI trickery, organized crime, fake phones and millions of spilled secrets Acting U.S. Atty. Randy Grossman speaks at a news conference Tuesday in San Diego. (Denis Poroy / Associated Press) Print The full extent of an unprecedented FBI effort to beat the criminal underworld at its own encrypted-communications game became clearer Tuesday following a two-day takedown, with some 800 arrests worldwide and San Diego racketeering indictments against 17 high-level targets, according to federal authorities. Dubbed Operation Trojan Shield, the effort was largely led by FBI agents an...

Trump Pardon List: POTUS Grants 20 People Executive Clemency Days Before Christmas KEY POINTS Among those pardoned are four Blackwater guards who murdered 17 Iraqi civilians He also pardoned former congressman Hunter who pled guilty to misusing campaign funds President Donald Trump on Tuesday granted a wave of executive clemencies -- including the pardons of four military contractors involved in a fatal shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians -- just days before the Christmas holiday.  Trump’s recent lame-duck pardons kicks off what many expect to be a series of clemencies in the final weeks of h...