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FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending November 26, 2010  Headquarters: FBI Releases 2009 Hate Crime Statistics The FBI released  Hate Crime Statistics, 2009 , which indicated that 6,604 criminal incidents involving 7,789 offenses were reported as a result of bias toward a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin, or physical or mental disability.  Full Story Norfolk: Five Somalis Convicted of Piracy Against  USS Nicholas A federal jury convicted five men from Somalia of engaging in piracy and related offenses in their attack on the  USS Nicholas , marking what is believed to be the first piracy trial conviction in the United States since 1820.  Full Story New York: Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Extradition of Senior Aide to Albanian Foreign Minister Charged with Murder, Kidnapping, and Other Racketeering Offenses The extradition of Almir Rrapo from Albania was announced for his involvement in a racketeering enterprise that engag

Danziger Bridge Incident - Cover-up and corruption in New Orleans ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- officers provided false info, failed to investigate fully, planted a weapon (CNN)  -- A former New Orleans, Louisiana, police officer who pleaded guilty to covering up police shootings of civilians on a Louisiana bridge in the days following Hurricane Katrina was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison, authorities said. Former officer Michael Hunter pleaded guilty April 7 in federal court in New Orleans to conspiracy to obstruct justice and for misprision of a felony (for concealing a known crime), in the Danziger Bridge shootings in New Orleans that left two dead and four seriously wounded, the Department of Justice said in a statement Wednesday. Hunter also was ordered to pay a $2,500 fine and serve three years' supervised release. His sentence will begin in March 2011. Judge Sarah Vance said that the kind o