FBI allegedly paid Geek Squad technicians as ‘confidential human sources’ in child porn case
Recently unsealed documents reveal the FBI has allegedly been paying Geek Squad technicians to search customers' computers for illegal material, allowing the FBI to conduct searches without a warrant.
In January, the FBI testified against Dr. Mark Albert Rettenmaier, 62, a gynecological oncologist, facing child pornography charges after Geek Squad technicians supposedly located an image of a young naked girl on his computer in 2011. The image was discovered in a section of Rettenmaier’s hard drive where deleted files are stored when he brought it to a Best Buy store for repairs.
Rettenmaier has pleaded not guilty and his lawyers are arguing that the case should be thrown out, because the image was obtained through an illegal search. His lawyers claim that the FBI used technicians at Best Buy’s Geek Squad, one of the most popular computer repair services in the US, to search his computer without obtaining a warrant.
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