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Seattle Post-Intelligencer: No new money for FBI's crime squads

“Despite a powerful surge in bank robbery, mortgage fraud and white-collar crimes, the Bush administration’s 2009 budget leaves an already handicapped FBI criminal program without the agents it needs to respond…” even though data shows “…a spike in bank robbery and continued sharp increases in white-collar crime,” and “Cybercrime increased 20 percent in 2007….”

In other words, even as the FTC is cracking down on marketers with bad practices, we shouldn’t expect any federal investigation into the really serious criminals.