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Jim Kouri

Jim Kouri, CPP, is founder and CEO of Kouri Associates, a homeland security, public safety and political consulting firm. He's formerly Fifth Vice-President, now a Board Member of the National Association of Chiefs of Police, an editor for ConservativeBase.com, a columnist for Examiner.com, a contributor to KGAB radio news, and news director for NewswithViews.com.

He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at St. Peter's University and director of security for several major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country.

Kouri appears regularly as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Fox News Channel, Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, etc.

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Congressman and Associates Nailed for Extortion and Money Laundering

Congressman Richard G. Renzi, from Arizona's first congressional district, and his associates James W. Sandlin, 56, of Sherman , Texas and Andrew Beardall, 36, of Rockville, Md., Renzi's business associate were indicted by federal authorities on Friday, according to a Justice Department report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police

- Friday, February 22, 2008



Bronx Drug Kingpin Convicted Of Running Heroin Organization

Jose Rodriguez Nieves, a/k/a "Menor," a/k/a "Cuba," was found guilty late Friday of charges related to his leadership of a highly lucrative drug organization responsible for distributing hundreds of kilograms of heroin in the Bronx from 1995 to January 2006.
- Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Gang Task Force Targets “Sureno 13” Gang Member

A member of the violent street gang Sureno 13 was arrested here Saturday by Greeley, Colorado,  Gang Task Force officers, with assistance from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agents.
- Monday, February 11, 2008



Congressman Duncan Hunter Demands Feds Install Border Fence

Representative Duncan Hunter, R-Calif, author of the fencing provisions of the Secure Fence Act of 2006, has introduced new legislation in the House of Representatives to require the construction of double-layered fencing along the U.S. border with Mexico within six months, according to a memo sent to the National Association of Chiefs of Police.
- Thursday, February 7, 2008

14 Members of the Bloods Charged in Large Scale RICO Case

Fourteen members of a South Florida-based Bloods gang with direct ties to the national Bloods criminal organization have been charged federally in connection with their illegal gang activities, according to US Justice Department officials and the FBI's report to the National Association of Chiefs of Police.
- Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Homeland Security Department Budget Increases by 6.8 Percent

President Bush's fiscal year 2009 budget request for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) represents $50.5 billion in funding, which is an increase of 6.8 percent over the 2008 fiscal year level -- excluding funds provided in emergency supplemental funding.
- Monday, February 4, 2008

23 Mexican Mafia Leaders Charged in RICO Case, 22 Texas Murders

United States Attorney Johnny Sutton and FBI Special Agent in Charge Ralph Diaz announced the indictment of 23 San Antonio residents, all of whom are in leadership positions in the Texas Mexican Mafia, for violating the federal Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) statute, according to a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police.
- Monday, February 4, 2008

Violent Gang Members Threaten Cops in You Tube Video

Two men who threatened members of the Miami-Dade Police Department's Special Investigation Gang Unit  were arrested here last Tuesday following a joint operation of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and officers from the Miami-Dade Police Department.
- Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Top Narco-Terrorist Sentenced to 60 Years in Federal Prison for Hostage Taking

Juvenal Ovidio Ricardo Palmera Pineda, a/k/a Simon Trinidad, a senior member of the US State Department-designated foreign terrorist group Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or FARC, was sentenced to a prison term of 60 years by a federal judge in Washington, DC on Monday for his role in a conspiracy to engage in the hostage-taking of three American citizens in the Republic of Colombia, according to a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police.
- Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Border Patrol Report Describes 29 Armed Mexican Incursions into US

Judicial Watch, the public interest group created to investigate and prosecute suspects in government corruption cases, recently released a secret Department of Homeland Security and US Border Patrol report titled, “Mexican Government Incidents: 2006 Fiscal Year Report.”
- Saturday, January 26, 2008

Relatives of Chinese Spy Face Deportation After Arrest by Feds

The sister-in-law and nephew of a former Orange County, California engineer convicted of orchestrating a scheme to smuggle sensitive defense information to China face deportation following their arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
- Friday, January 25, 2008


Nuclear Security: US Finding Jobs for Former Soviet Weapons Scientists

To address concerns about unemployed or underemployed Soviet-era weapons scientists in Russia and other former Soviet Bloc nations, the US Department of Energy established the Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention or IPP program in 1994. The general idea was to engage former Soviet weapons scientists in nonmilitary work in the short term and create private sector jobs for these scientists in the long term.
- Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Businessman Busted for Harboring Illegal Alien Cop-Killer

A Texas businessman, who employed an illegal alien charged with capital murder in connection with the 2006 shooting death of Houston Police Department Officer Rodney Johnson, was arrested Wednesday and charged with harboring an illegal alien here. This case was investigated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Houston Police Department.
- Monday, January 21, 2008

Presidential Hopeful John McCain Counting on Voters’ Short Memories

In the midst of this presidential race, many GOP faithful appear to have forgotten that Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and his friend Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) were planning last December to introduce a new immigration bill that is even more liberal than their past "amnesty" bill. They're calling it a fast-track to citizenship for illegal aliens.
- Sunday, January 20, 2008

Islamic Charity and Former Congressman Indicted for Terrorist Financing

KANSAS CITY, MO -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Missouri has returned a superseding indictment that charges the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA) and several of its former officers with eight new counts of engaging in prohibited financial transactions for the benefit of US-designated terrorist Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
- Friday, January 18, 2008

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