Articles by Jeff Mordock
A former financial administrator for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons has agreed to pay $5,000 to the United States government to resolve claims he accepted bribes in exchange for awarding healthcare contracts, the Department of Justice said Friday.
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May 4, 2018
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A Virginia federal judge Friday blasted prosecutors from the office of special counsel Robert Mueller, demanding to know how decade-old bank and tax fraud allegations against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort could relate to Russian election interference.
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May 4, 2018
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday keeping federal investigators on the job past retirement will bulk up understaffed agencies in the wake of the opioid crisis.
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May 3, 2018
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Volkswagen AG's former CEO Martin Winterkorn was charged in a federal court with conspiracy and wire fraud charges related to the automaker's plan to cheat U.S. diesel emissions testing, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday.
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May 3, 2018
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A Suffolk, Virginia, member of the Nine Trey Gangsters was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for murdering four people and committing several non-fatal shootings, the Justice Department said.
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May 2, 2018
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The Justice Department will use $11 million from a settlement to purchase 18,700 bulletproof vests for law enforcement, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Wednesday.
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May 2, 2018
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President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to "get involved" in an escalating fight between conservative House Republicans and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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May 2, 2018
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte Tuesday urged Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate allegations that top Obama-era Department of Justice officials tried to shut down the FBI probe into the Clinton Foundation during the 2016 presidential election.
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May 1, 2018
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Tuesday compared articles of impeachment drafted against him by members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus to an extortion attempt.
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May 1, 2018
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Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort filed a motion late Monday asking a Virginia federal court to dismiss one of the 18 charges against him.
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May 1, 2018
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Former Arkansas legislator Henry Wilkins IV pleaded guilty Monday to accepting over $80,000 in bribes from lobbyists to vote for specific bills, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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April 30, 2018
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Adult-film actress Stormy Daniels filed a defamation lawsuit Monday against President Trump, who called her claim of being threatened over her alleged affair with the president "a total con job."
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April 30, 2018
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A federal grand jury indicted 57 members of various violent white supremacist gangs in North Texas with drug trafficking and kidnapping charges, the Justice Department announced Monday.
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April 30, 2018
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A federal grand jury Monday indicted an officer at the Miami-Dade juvenile lockup in Miami for his role in the beating death of a 17-year-old inmate.
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April 30, 2018
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A Panasonic Corp. subsidiary will pay about $280 million to settle civil and criminal charges that the company falsified financial records to conceal payments to sales representatives working in China and other Asian countries, the Department of Justice said Monday
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April 30, 2018
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The Department of Justice has revised its U.S. attorneys' manual by removing language about press freedom and racial gerrymandering, according to a media report.
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April 30, 2018
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Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates and her top lieutenant, Principal Assistant Deputy Attorney General Matthew Axelrod, refused to answer questions this week about whether they tried to squelch an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation during the final months of the 2016 campaign.
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April 27, 2018
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A federal judge Friday tossed former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's lawsuit challenging the authority of special counsel Robert Mueller.
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April 27, 2018
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Four Chinese nationals are among 10 new defendants who were indicted in a widening probe of fentanyl shipments from China to the United States that resulted in the deaths of four people and multiple overdoses, the Department of Justice said Friday.
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April 27, 2018
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Text messages exchanged by two anti-Trump FBI officials that were previously thought lost were delivered to at least five congressional committees late Thursday night. Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, two married FBI officials who were having an affair, ranted against the president in the more than 50,000 texts they exchanged with each other.
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April 26, 2018
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