Justice Department

Washington 08/03/21, 01:35

Russian hackers are suspected of a major cyber attack against some of America's most prominent federal prosecutor work email accounts in 2020. The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed 80 percent of employee Microsoft email accounts were hacked. The breaches affected four U.S. attorney offices in New York. At least one employee's ...

News 07/25/21, 17:54

There will be no official civil rights investigation into the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Virus response at state-run nursing homes. The Department of Justice (DOJ) refused to examine aged care facilities in New York, Pennsylvania, and Michigan despite several Republican members of Congress asking the DOJ to do so. The department's civil ...

U.S. 10/20/20, 12:03

The Justice Department filed an unprecedented lawsuit on Tuesday, Oct. 20, against Google accusing it of abusing online searches to suppress competition and thereby harm consumers, The Associated Press reported. The lawsuit, according to related sources, is the most important legal act by a government in favor of antitrust laws.  Google has ...

U.S. 07/16/20, 04:13

President Donald Trump on Tuesday, July 14, said former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn won't need a pardon and he would welcome Flynn back to the White House. “He’s gone through hell. He’s been destroyed, but he’ll make a comeback,” President Trump told CBS News during an interview at the White ...

Politics 06/17/20, 08:54

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday, June 16, filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent President Donald Trump’s former National Security Adviser John Bolton from disclosing classified information in his new book. “This is a civil action by the United States to prevent Defendant John R. Bolton, a former National Security ...

Trending 12/05/19, 02:56

People should treat the police with the same respect they would show the military, the nation's top legal expert said on Dec. 3. Attorney General William P. Barr is concerned not enough citizens are treating law enforcement officers with enough reverence. Barr suggested the way some police officers are treated reminded ...

Politics 08/31/19, 04:01

Commentary Former FBI Director James Comey remains the subject of two separate investigations by the U.S. Justice Department, even after it was announced on Thursday, Aug. 29, that Attorney General William Barr would not charge him for leaking FBI memos containing his private communications with President Trump. While an investigation by Inspector ...

U.S. 06/15/19, 16:58

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), who chairs the House Freedom Caucus, expects that Justice Department investigations into the origins of the FBI’s counterintelligence activities against President Trump will result in indictments. One of the investigations, led by U.S. District Attorney John Durham under the direction of Attorney General William Barr, has continued ...

U.S. 06/10/19, 15:48

House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) announced today that he is no longer pressing to proceed with a vote to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress. Nadler made his announcement in a statement after the U.S. Justice Department reached an agreement with the House Committee to share ...

Politics 03/28/19, 21:05

After nearly two years, special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report is finished. But one year after his assignment to probe possible related misdeeds by FBI and Justice Department officials, U.S. Attorney John Huber’s work remains a mystery. Huber, who oversees federal prosecutions in the District of Utah, is working collaboratively in the internal ...

U.S. 11/29/18, 19:10

Defendants allegedly tried to cheat on an $8B contract to supply US forces in Afghanistan

Politics 11/29/18, 11:16

Six decades after nine black students were escorted past an angry white mob into Little Rock Central High School, the city at the center of the desegregation crisis may be on the verge of electing its first African-American mayor. But Frank Scott, the 35-year-old banking executive who may break that barrier, ...

U.S. 11/05/18, 03:57

He faces life in prison if convicted on drug conspiracy charges

U.S. 11/01/18, 20:01

It comes as grand jury issues latest indictment involving alleged Chinese theft of US trade secrets

Business 10/27/18, 02:14

A published report Friday said the FBI is conducting a criminal investigation into whether electric-car maker Tesla misled investors by overstating production forecasts for its Model 3 sedan. The Wall Street Journal reported that FBI agents have contacted former Tesla employees to interview them. The paper cited anonymous people familiar with ...