Articles by Jeff Mordock
Department of Justice has agreed to hand over documents related to investigative decisions it made surrounding the 2016 election, the chairs of those committees said late Monday.
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April 23, 2018
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The Department of Justice said Monday it will award a $1 million grant to defray some of the overtime costs racked up by local law enforcement officials in response to the shooting deaths of 17 people at a Parkland, Florida, high school in February.
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April 23, 2018
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A federal grand jury has indicted a former Hickory, North Carolina, police officer accused of beating a female suspect and falsifying reports to cover it up, the Justice Department said Monday.
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April 23, 2018
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Tucked inside the inspector general's report on former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was the story of an August 2016 phone call from a high-ranking Justice Department official who Mr. McCabe thought was trying to shut down the FBI's probe into the Clinton Foundation at a time when Hillary Clinton was running for president.
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April 23, 2018
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A man accused of smuggling illegal immigrants through the Texas heat in a sweltering tractor-trailer in July, resulting in the deaths of 10 men, has been sentenced to life in prison, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Friday.
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April 20, 2018
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Former FBI Director James Comey defended then-Deputy Directory Andrew McCabe to President Trump, calling him a "pro," according to Mr. Comey's memos, which were submitted to Congress Thursday evening.
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April 19, 2018
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein last week reportedly told President Trump that he is not the target of a probe involving his personal attorney, Michael Cohen.
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April 19, 2018
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Lance Armstrong will pay the United States $5 million to settle claims the cycling legend defrauded the federal government by using performance enhancing drugs while collecting millions from a sponsorship deal with the U.S. Postal Service, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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April 19, 2018
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The Justice Department on Thursday sent Congress copies of the memos that former FBI Director James B. Comey wrote on his interactions with President Trump, moving to head off a looming subpoena from Capitol Hill.
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April 19, 2018
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A former aluminum extrusion plant production manager was charged Thursday for his role in a decade-long scheme to defraud NASA.
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April 19, 2018
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Paul Manafort's lawyers asked a federal judge to toss the charges against him, saying Thursday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller exceeded his authority when he sought an indictment against the former chairman of President Trump's campaign.
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April 19, 2018
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A legal watchdog filed a bar grievance against former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on Wednesday while conservative members of Congress, accusing him of lying under oath, referred him to the Justice Department for criminal charges.
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April 18, 2018
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Former FBI Director James Comey knew his Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was leaking information about the Clinton Foundation probe to the press, a lawyer representing Mr. McCabe said.
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April 18, 2018
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Former FBI agent Terry J. Albury pleaded guilty Tuesday to leaking classified national defense information to the media.
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April 17, 2018
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Two individuals had their naturalized citizenship revoked in separate cases last week, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
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April 17, 2018
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Federal authorities said they have struck a major blow to a massive interstate network that trafficked drugs into the opioid crisis' "ground zero," Huntington, West Virginia.
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April 17, 2018
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Sen. Bernard Sanders took direct aim Tuesday at opioid makers he said are fueling the drug-overdose crisis, proposing legislation that would impose crippling fines and even jail time on company executives who downplay the addictive nature of their product.
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April 17, 2018
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Federal Judge Kimba Wood, who is overseeing the court case against Donald Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, officiated the 2013 wedding of George Soros, a billionaire supporter of liberal political causes, according to news reports at that time.
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April 17, 2018
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Fox News host Sean Hannity said his conversations with President Donald Trump's lawyer were not significant enough to tell his superiors. Mr. Hannity has come under fire after his name surfaced Monday afternoon as a client of Michael Cohen, who also represents the president.
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April 16, 2018
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A New York federal judge said she would consider having a neutral third party decide which documents the FBI seized from President Trump's personal lawyer should be protected by attorney-client privilege.
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April 16, 2018
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