San Antonio man arrested for involvement in Capitol insurrection
SAN ANTONIO โ A San Antonio man has been arrested by the FBI after he allegedly participated in the Capitol insurrection in Washington D.C. on Jan. 6. Matthew Carl Mazzocco, 37, was arrested Sunday in San Antonio without incident, according to San Antonio FBI public affairs officer Michelle Lee. He is charged with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. Mazzocco is expected to appear in federal court Tuesday in San Antonio. A second Texas man was arrested Sunday for his involvement in the insurrection.
Donโt fall for fake vaccine scams, FBI warns
In the coming weeks, FBI special agents want everyone to look out for schemes offering fake vaccines. โThe FBI has been closely following scams connected with the COVID pandemic,โ said FBI Special Agent Michelle Lee. Like Lee, Croft warns about the red flags that may appear through a website, text message, email or a phone call. โI promise you, nobody will ever ask you in advance to pay in advance for a vaccine,โ Croft said. You can report vaccine scams to the Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.IC3.gov or your local FBI field office, which can be located at www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices.
Online predators take advantage of people during the holidays, FBI warns
SAN ANTONIO โ โTis the season for giving, and local FBI special agents say online predators are ready to take advantage of unsuspecting people. โWe really have kind of a perfect storm in front of us,โ said FBI Special Agent Michelle Lee. As consumers shop online for holiday gifts, Lee warns about websites offering fake deals. When you get an alleged deal in the form of a text or email, Lee said if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. โFamilies being apart and maybe having lost loved ones due to COVID and being lonely and looking for companionship online,โ Lee said.
Trump's diversity training order faces lawsuit
NEW YORK โ Three civil rights groups filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging President Donald Trump's executive order that prohibits federal agencies, contractors and grant recipients from offering certain diversity training that the president deems โanti-American." The lawsuit argued that Trump's order violates free speech rights and strangles workplace attempts to address systemic race and sex discrimination. The National Urban League and the National Fair Housing Alliance both have federal contracts and plan to apply for future ones. Critics say Trump's order twists President Lyndon B. Johnsonโs 1965 initiative into vehicle for white grievances. The lawsuit, however, said the wording of the order is overly broad and is already having a chilling effect on diversity training.