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CNN
April 3, 2018
Yet O'Callaghan now lands in the thick of the highest-profile investigation at the Justice Department, ensnarling former Trump campaign associates. Late Monday evening, prosecutors in the Russia probe revealed Rosenstein has granted the special counsel's office wide latitude to investigate former TrumpÃâà...
CNN
April 3, 2018
(CNN) Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told special counsel Robert Mueller in a classified August 2, 2017, memo that he should investigate ... with Russians to influence the election in violation of US law, and for crimes that arose from payments Manafort received from former Ukrainian politicians.
PBS NewsHour
April 3, 2018
WASHINGTON (AP) — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein explicitly authorized the Justice Department's special counsel to investigate allegations ... Left: Paul Manafort, former campaign manager for U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for a bond hearing at U.S. District Court in Washington, U.S.,Ãâà...
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
April 3, 2018
Reporters Committee attorneys filed suit on behalf of Tokar in December 2016 after DOJ refused to provide records in response to a Freedom of Information ... In 2008, DOJ launched an internal inquiry into its selection process after then-U.S. Attorney Chris Christie approved a contract reportedly worthÃâà...
Indiana Lawyer
April 3, 2018
Accusations of sexual harassment and prosecutorial misconduct at the U.S. Department of Justice's Capital Case Section have ensnared a death penalty case in the ... Haines' declaration also accuses Justice Department attorney James Peterson of mishandling the death penalty case against Rogers.
NPR
April 3, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions and other immigration hardliners say that backlog allows people who should be deported quickly to stay in the United States for years while they wait for a court date. Immigration courts handle the civil cases of undocumented immigrants who are seeking to stay in the U.S.Ãâà...
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando
April 3, 2018
ORLANDO, Fla. - Attorneys with the U.S. Department of Justice informed a federal judge Monday that they need at least two more months to conduct a criminal fraud investigation into SeaWorld Entertainment Inc., court records show. The DOJ is seeking to extend a temporary stay in a class-action lawsuitÃâà...
Law.com
April 3, 2018
10 memorandum issued by Granston to all attorneys in the fraud section and all assistant U.S. attorneys handling FCA cases. The memorandum encouraged DOJ lawyers to seek dismissal of non-intervened qui tam cases that “lack substantial merit” and discussed factors that should guide dismissal.
Voice of America
April 2, 2018
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department had no choice but to sue the state in order to ensure federal law enforcement. "I regret the need to file yet another lawsuit against the state of California today," Sessions said in a statement. Sanctuary laws. Last month, the Justice DepartmentÃâà...
NPR
March 29, 2018
The Justice Department's internal watchdog says it will launch a review in response to allegations by Republican lawmakers that the department and the FBI abused their surveillance authorities to target a former Trump campaign adviser in the early days of the DOJ's Russia investigation. The department'sÃâà...
The Boston Globe
March 29, 2018
US Attorney Andrew E. Lelling revealed the investigation in a letter that was received by state health and public safety officials late Tuesday. ... Advocates welcomed the inquiry and said Wednesday that Lelling's letter is the beginning of a Justice Department effort to eliminate barriers to addiction treatmentÃâà...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Newsroom
March 29, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney R. Andrew ... I want to thank our Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents and DOJ attorneys for all of their hard work pursuing justice in this case.”.
RealClearPolitics
March 29, 2018
... pointing out that if Trump tried to fire Robert Mueller, the line of succession below Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein would be as follows: Solicitor General Noel Francisco, Asst. AG Steven Engel, Asst. AG for national security John Demers, U.S. Attorney Robert Higdon, and finally U.S. Attorney ErinÃâà...
Media Play News
March 29, 2018
The federal judge in the Justice Department's antitrust case against the $85 billion AT&T/Time Warner merger reportedly told lawyers for both sides to up their ... “Both sides need to sit down with their clients and their teams and make sure they have down what they need versus what they want,” U.S. DistrictÃâà...
CBS News
March 29, 2018
The Department of Justice's internal watchdog announced Wednesday that it will review the DOJ and FBI's compliance with the law and their own policies related to applications for secret surveillance warrants made "related to a certain U.S. person," in response to requests from Attorney General JeffÃâà...
CNN
March 29, 2018
Washington (CNN) On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that President Donald Trump's former lawyer John Dowd floated the possibility that Trump ... One DOJ employee sent around a Huffington Post article by Ryan J. Reilly referencing an interview with former US pardon attorney Margaret LoveÃâà...
STLtoday.com
March 24, 2018
Justice Department accuses Iran of long scheme to hack into US universities, governments ... By tricking professors into clicking on false links, the hackers got into 8,000 accounts, said Geoffrey Berman, interim U.S. attorney in Manhattan, saying the hackers stole “innovations and intellectual property ofÃâà...
SFGate
March 24, 2018
“Information about the president's deliberations” will not be disclosed and is not necessary to decide on the legality of Trump's order, Justice Department lawyers told a federal judge in Seattle on Thursday, the day before the ban had been scheduled to take effect. That explanation was derided by a lawyerÃâà...
Online Athens
March 24, 2018
And like Yates, was for many years a deputy U.S. attorney. One of the questions was about President Trump's first travel ban. As acting U.S. attorney general, Yates instructed the Justice Department not to defend it because it was unconstitutional. Trump immediately fired her, but federal judges agreed,Ãâà...
CNN
March 24, 2018
"(W)e have unmasked criminals who normally work in total anonymity, hiding behind the ones and zeros of computer code," said Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman, who called it a "massive and brazen cyberassault." The move from the Justice Department and Treasury follows other US efforts toÃâà...
CNBC
March 24, 2018
"That type of criminal activity does not just cause economic harm," Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said. "It also threatens our national security. Identifying and prosecuting computer hackers is a priority for the Department of Justice." The nine defendants were accused of being affiliated with theÃâà...
Law.com
March 23, 2018
Justice Department lawyers say they're seeking to prove that AT&T's proposed merger with Time Warner will stifle competition. ... U.S. Department of Justice. ... DOJ lawyer Lisa Scanlon questioned Fenwick first, asking her to explain how her team negotiates with networks or groups of networks, to provideÃâà...
Law.com
March 22, 2018
When ICE knocks, any resistance from an employer could run the risk of an escalated scope of an audit, according to management attorneys. In California, a new state ... Jones said the California law and the Justice Department's lawsuit enhances the balancing act for employers. ICE will likely continue toÃâà...
New York Times
March 13, 2018
The Justice Department and A.T.F. aligned themselves with the president, backing away from the bureau's earlier conclusion and announcing on Saturday that the agency can ban bump stocks under current law, as the president had promised. On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions reiterated that heÃâà...
Variety
March 13, 2018
UPDATED WASHINGTON — A federal judge denied a Justice Department motion that sought to limit AT&T and Time Warner from presenting a key piece ... the challenged acquisition — the transaction — would substantially lessen competition,” the DOJ attorneys said in their motion, unsealed on Tuesday.
Above the Law
March 12, 2018
And while Sessions refers in his memo to the principles of enforcement in the U.S. Attorneys' Manual, that document only reinforces the level of discretion and authority that each U.S. attorney has. In turn, we could potentially have 93 different enforcement policies across the multitude of states that haveÃâà...
NPR
March 12, 2018
Lawyer Douglas Letter joined the DOJ in 1978. For decades, he ... Eric Holder, former attorney general under President Barack Obama, tweeted that Letter "personifies what is best about the Justice Department." ... The longtime public servant said he will miss the 60 lawyers in his Justice Department unit.
Law.com
March 12, 2018
The U.S. Justice Department and the California Attorney General's Office fired off a round of arguments over scheduling and venue for the government's big immigration case against the state. U.S. District Judge John Mendez in Sacramento wasn't having it. On Monday, he told the attorneys to knock it off.
ThinkProgress
March 8, 2018
And the Justice Department's response to Brown, which DOJ spokesperson Sarah Isgur Flores shared on Twitter, was truly something to behold. ... In fairness, the fact that Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions' Justice Department opposes nullification is, perhaps, a sign that the TrumpÃâà...
Government Technology
March 8, 2018
Plus, prominent Chicago civic tech group invites Illinois attorney general candidates to sign open data pledge; Bloomington, Ind., teams with a civic tech group to create an animal shelter Twitter bot; multiple cities create “Adopt-a-Drain” apps to encourage care for storm drains; and Boulder, Colo., works toÃâà...
NPR
March 8, 2018
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was in California yesterday to remind state officials there just who is in charge. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ... MARTIN: Darrell Steinberg is the mayor of Sacramento, talking this morning about the DOJ suit against the state of California. Thank you so much for your timeÃâà...
HuffPost
March 8, 2018
WASHINGTON ― Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rapidly shifting the Justice Department's focus from Obama-era goals such as civil rights ... A draft version of the department's five-year strategic plan obtained by HuffPost shows the Trump administration's plans for the DOJ include cracking down onÃâà...
Seattle Times
March 8, 2018
A former corporate-fraud prosecutor carried out the "most serious" example of public corruption by a U.S. Department of Justice attorney in years by stealing more than 40 whistleblower fraud cases in 2016 and trying to sell the secret information to companies under federal investigation, prosecutors said.
CNN
March 8, 2018
The Justice Department sued California late Tuesday, alleging that state policies that prohibit some cooperation with federal immigration enforcement are unconstitutional. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra fired back hours later, saying his state should not be forced to do the federal job of trying toÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 7, 2018
A report by the Justice Department Office of Inspector General in 2012 found that neither President Barack Obama nor his attorney general at the time, Eric Holder, were aware of Fast and Furious until 2011. Nonetheless, as Holder refused to provide documents about the operation to Congress, he drewÃâà...
The Hill
March 1, 2018
Gowdy's defense of the watchdog Wednesday came after Trump took to Twitter to criticize Attorney General Jeff Sessions for appointing the inspector general — instead of Department of Justice lawyers — to investigate allegations that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was improperly used toÃâà...
The Advocate
March 1, 2018
The defense attorney for indicted former narcotics agent Chad Scott on Wednesday accused the U.S. Justice Department of trying to conceal misconduct on the part of the government agents who investigated Scott's New Orleans-based federal drug task force. The attorney, Matthew Coman, said federalÃâà...
Chron.com
March 1, 2018
The Justice Department has sued the city of Houston over sex discrimination claims launched by two female firefighters who say their male coworkers tormented them by urinating on ... "No employee should be subjected to a hostile work environment based on their sex," U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick said.
Crain's Detroit Business
March 1, 2018
The U.S. attorney's office in Detroit is investigating possible federal civil violations of anti-kickback, false claims and self-referral laws at Detroit Medical Center, ... "We are cooperating fully with the DOJ" and the U.S. attorney's office in Detroit, said Waldmann, Tenet's senior vice president of public affairs.
ABC News
March 1, 2018
Why not use justice department lawyers? ... After months of responding diplomatically to the president's attacks -- Well, it's kind of hurtful, but the president of the united States is a strong leader. ... President trump in that tweet told sessions to use justice department attorneys, telling him how to do his job.
CNN
March 1, 2018
... Justice Department spokesperson Sarah Isgur Flores walking down the street from the Justice Department. At one point, Sessions pumped his fist in the air as he walked past several people. Rosenstein is overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 USÃâà...
NBCNews.com
December 31, 1999
The effort includes Preet Bharara, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 to 2017 who was fired in the early months of the Trump administration. ... AT&T's attorneys have been seeking information separately on Trump's potential influence over the Justice Department.
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
The defendants, many of them foreign nationals living outside the United States, are accused of robbing more than one million elderly Americans of more than $1 ... Over the past month, the Justice Department's Consumer Protection Branch and U.S. Attorney's office have filed cases against more than 40Ãâà...
