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Seamus Hughes
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I read a lot of court records because I like a good story. Won a Pulitzer that one time. “A well-known PACER watcher” - Justice Department
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“It went all quiet for seven months, and then the threats began…”

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The Rabbit Hole: Inside the arrest of a purported L.A. Mobster
It was a crazy game of poker. Assaf Waknine may lose it all.
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November 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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This morning, we’re happy to launch a new regular Sunday morning feature we’re affectionately calling ‘The Rabbit Hole.’ This weekly series, led by our reporting fellow, Peter Beck, picks a single federal court docket from the week and dives deep into the details

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The Rabbit Hole: Inside the arrest of a purported L.A. Mobster
It was a crazy game of poker. Assaf Waknine may lose it all.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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You’re doom scrolling on a Saturday evening. Read something that brings you joy instead:

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#151: U.S. Stops Chinese Worm Invasion?
Three University of Michigan students face smuggling charges. Plus: Indicting the wrong person, drake diss, fruity pebble shortchange, liberal election deniers, and Maryland loves crabcakes and FBI he...
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November 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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A must read, perfect for understanding this moment. 👇

I also recommend Peter Bergen's brilliant United States of Jihad. "Jihadist terrorism in the United States is overwhelmingly a phenomenon of ordinary Americans making extraordinarily bad choices.” Indeed. 🎯
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If you saw that 8 Americans were arrested in the last week for ISIS-related crimes and you wondered if there was an non-dry academic book that explained the homegrown phenomenon well, may I humbly suggest

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Homegrown: ISIS in America
Homegrown: ISIS in America [Meleagrou-Hitchens, Alexander, Hughes, Seamus, Clifford, Bennett] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Homegrown: ISIS in America
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November 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Every Friday morning we do a newsletter roundup of all the most interesting court filings in the federal courts.

We buried a few scoops in this week’s issue:

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U.S. Stops Chinese Worm Invasion?
Three University of Michigan students face smuggling charges. Plus: Indicting the wrong person, drake diss, fruity pebble shortchange, liberal election deniers, and Maryland loves crabcakes and FBI he...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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If you saw that 8 Americans were arrested in the last week for ISIS-related crimes and you wondered if there was an non-dry academic book that explained the homegrown phenomenon well, may I humbly suggest

www.amazon.com/dp/178831485...
Homegrown: ISIS in America
Homegrown: ISIS in America [Meleagrou-Hitchens, Alexander, Hughes, Seamus, Clifford, Bennett] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Homegrown: ISIS in America
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November 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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The first everyone *will* click on. The second everyone *should* click on.
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Thursday evenings — a time when our reporters debate which email headline for our weekly court record roundup is better:

FBI stops Chinese earthworm invasion

or

Feds indict wrong person
November 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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if I weren't already following @courtwatch.bsky.social, "random artificial Thursday goal" would win me over for sure.
seamushughes.bsky.social Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social · 4d
We’re 800 followers short of our random artificial Thursday goal. Follow @courtwatch.bsky.social which broke a couple stories on our feed today.
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Noticing that @courtwatch.bsky.social hasn’t crossed the 2,000 follower mark even though we crossed the 1,000 mark 3 minutes ago.
November 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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We’re 800 followers short of our random artificial Thursday goal. Follow @courtwatch.bsky.social which broke a couple stories on our feed today.
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Noticing that @courtwatch.bsky.social hasn’t crossed the 2,000 follower mark even though we crossed the 1,000 mark 3 minutes ago.
November 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Two additional men have been charged related to the Detroit ISIS case.

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Charging Document Received From Other Court – #1 in United States v. Mirreh (W.D. Wash., 2:25-mj-00708) – CourtListener.com
CHARGING DOCUMENT RECEIVED FROM the District of New Jersey as to Saed Ali Mirreh. (JES) (Entered: 11/05/2025)
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November 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Noticing that @courtwatch.bsky.social hasn’t crossed the 2,000 follower mark even though we crossed the 1,000 mark 3 minutes ago.
November 6, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Noticing that @courtwatch.bsky.social hasn’t crossed the 1,000 follower mark yet even though we broke a couple stories this week.
a man says it became personal with me in a close up
ALT: a man says it became personal with me in a close up
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November 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Three University of Michigan Chinese students have been charged with smuggling biological samples to/from the US and China

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Criminal Complaint – #1 in United States v. Bai (E.D. Mich., 2:25-mj-30680) – CourtListener.com
Criminal Complaint
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November 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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A Florida man was arrested for allegedly making a series of threats against James Comey, Tish James, Graham Planter, and Hunter Biden while commenting on Gateway Pundit stories
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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In hacker news…
November 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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We have a lot of breaking news in this week’s issue, but if you’ll bear with us for a moment, let’s first quickly explain how the Justice Department can now launch grenades – and not just the proverbial procedural ones.

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#150: Prosecutors Acquire a Grenade Launcher
No, seriously. Plus: Cam’Ron Beefing, Sanctioning Bill Maher, BananaGate, and an FBI analyst fired for supporting Trump?
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October 31, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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I’m just a boy, standing in front of the internet, asking it to go touch grass.
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An Illinois man, Derek Lopez, investigated (and ultimately arrested today) by the FBI for a series of alleged online threats against the President and FBI Director Patel purportedly created a fake social media account of the FBI agent who interviewed him. It ended how one thought it would.
October 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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“Anarchist to the Bone”

A previously unreported search warrant reveals how the FBI tracked down a suspect who planted a failed incendiary device at a local Fox News station in Utah.

An early morning exclusive from Court Watch.

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“Anarchist to the Bone”
A previously unreported search warrant reveals how the FBI tracked down a suspect who planted a failed incendiary device at a local Fox News station in Utah.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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“There's probably an analogy to be made about government efficiency and taking four years to fill a hole.”

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#149: The IRS has a Sidewalk Problem.
There's probably an analogy to be made about government efficiency and taking four years to fill a hole. Plus: The U.S. Courts giveth and they taketh away. Also, Laura Loomer’s Thumb Drives, Hasan Pik...
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October 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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The most clicked on court record links in the newsletter was not the ones that broke national news but instead a random accident lawsuit filed by someone who fell into a hole outside of the IRS. I love my subscribers.
October 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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There's probably an analogy to be made about government efficiency and taking four years to fill a hole in a sidewalk in front of the IRS.

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#149: The IRS has a Sidewalk Problem.
There's probably an analogy to be made about government efficiency and taking four years to fill a hole. Plus: The U.S. Courts giveth and they taketh away. Also, Laura Loomer’s Thumb Drives, Hasan Pik...
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October 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Always nice to scoop ESPN.
courtwatch.bsky.social Court Watch @courtwatch.bsky.social · 18d
There are 32 defendants in the NBA gambling criminal case. Here's the list.
October 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Another new case outta Florida of a man accused of threatening @briantylercohen.bsky.social , other democrats and “every Muslim”

We’ll keep collecting cases like this and put it in Friday’s court record roundup. www.CourtWatch.news/subscribe
October 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM