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The family of actor David Carradine has asked U.S. authorities to help unravel the mystery of his death, amid conflicting reports about how his body was found hanging naked in a Bangkok hotel.

The FBI is looking into a report that Freddie Mac improperly deferred billions of dollars of losses incurred from 2001 through 2004.

A Hollywood film director who pleaded guilty three years ago to lying to the FBI in connection with the Anthony Pellicano investigation, then withdrew his plea, was indicted Friday by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles. John McTiernan is charged with perjury and making false statements to federal agents.

FBI agents have arrested a city government worker and are searching the offices of the city's chief technology officer.

The FBI made the first arrest in the $8 billion Stanford Financial Group fraud investigation on Thursday, detaining chief investment officer Laura Pendergest-Holt on federal obstruction charges.

Executive to be sentenced for fraud rose to No. 3 rank despite misdeeds.

The longtime Hollywood lobbyist and Houston native was among the Washington figures whose sex lives were secretly investigated by the FBI in the 1960s.