Crime & Safety

FBI Raid at City Hall Tied to IT Office Investigation

Corporation counsel confirms that Zimmer Administration asked FBI to investigate.

FBI agents are at Thursday morning at the request of city officials, Corporation Counsel Mark Tabakin confirmed.

Tabakin said that the agents at the city’s information technology office as part of an on-going investigation into an alleged breach in electronic communications. Tabakin said he is not at liberty to say which city employees are involved in the investigation or how many employees are being investigated.

FBI agents were seen on the third floor of City Hall shortly before 11 a.m. on Thursday in front of the IT office. Computers were being removed from the office.

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Tabakin said that the investigation involves a Title 18 violation. Title 18 of the U.S. Code covers a variety of computer fraud related crimes. Covered under the law, includes unlawful or unauthorized use of a federal government computer or a computer containing federal data, use of a computer to obtain financial data or personal information stored on the computer and the use of a computer for disclosing classified data.

A statement released by Mayor Dawn Zimmer's press office late Thursday morning confirmed that the investigation involves a "compromised security in the electronic communications within the City."

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Tabakin said that the FBI investigation remains on-going and that city government is fully cooperating with the federal government. The raid comes a week after the City Council held a private session following the first reports of a federal investigation surfaced and the IT office doors were padlocked.


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