A New Jersey mayor and his son were arrested Thursday by the FBI for allegedly hacking into an email account and website tied to a recall effort — and then intimidating those associated with the site.Felix Roque, 55, the Democratic mayor of West New York, N.J., and his son Joseph, 22, are alleged to have accessed and cancelled the domain registration for Recallroque.com, a website that was critical of the mayor and associated with a movement to recall him, in early February. Continue Reading Joseph Roque learned how to hack email accounts and GoDaddy.com, a domain registration company, by searching the Internet, according to a criminal complaint unsealed after the arrests. After RecallRoque.com was taken down, the criminal complaint says, Roque placed a telephone call ...
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The controversial auction of a vial that contained President Ronald Reagan’s blood has been halted, and the valuable glass tube is being donated to the former president’s foundation. In a statement issued Thursday morning, the executive director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation said he was pleased by the outcome. “We are grateful to the current custodian of the vial for this generous donation to the Foundation ensuring President Reagan’s blood remains out of public hands,” said John Heubusch, the foundation’s director. The vial in question contained residue of blood drawn from Reagan while he recovered from a near-fatal gunshot wound in 1981. It was being sold by an online auction house based on the island of Guernsey, an autonomous British protectorate, in the English ... Continue reading →
