Jeff Mordock

Michael Flynn asks judge to dismiss charges two years after pleading guilty

Attorneys for retired U.S. Army lieutenant general and former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn on Wednesday asked a federal judge to toss his guilty plea for lying to the FBI and dismiss the case against him.

January 29, 2020

AG Barr: religious freedom essential to maintaining limited government

Attorney General William Barr warned Wednesday that militant secularism is suppressing religious liberty in the marketplace of ideas.

January 29, 2020

Justice Department files first-ever civil complaints against robocall companies

The Justice Department Tuesday filed lawsuits against five U.S. companies and three individuals alleging they were responsible for hundreds of millions of robocalls that scammed Americans out of "massive financial losses."

January 28, 2020

Judiciary Committee spars over banning fentanyl analogues

A House panel heard arguments Tuesday about the pros and cons of continuing the illegal status of the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl, in an eyebrow-raising debate that pitted law enforcement officials against criminal justice reformers.

January 28, 2020

House Democrats say Trump’s impeachment defense contradicts DOJ stance in Mueller lawsuit

House Democrats told a federal judge Tuesday that arguments by President Trump's lawyers in the Senate impeach trial contradicts the Justice Department's stance in its bid to keep the grand jury materials from ex-special counsel Robert Mueller's probe under wraps.

January 28, 2020

Charles Lieber, Harvard chemistry dept. chairman, charged with lying about ties to Chinese gov’t

Federal prosecutors Tuesday charged Harvard University's chemistry department chairman with lying to the U.S. Department of Defense about his ties to a controversial Chinese talent recruitment program.

January 28, 2020

DOJ: Barr denies Bolton’s book claim of being worried about Trump ‘favors’ to other countries

The Justice Department on Tuesday denied bombshell allegations reportedly included in a book manuscript by former National Security Adviser John R. Bolton that said the attorney general expressed concern that President Trump was effectively pledging personal favors to the leaders of China and Turkey.

January 28, 2020

Hunter Biden settles child support case, ending legal battle

Hunter Biden has reached an out-of-court settlement in a child support dispute with an Arkansas woman, attorneys for both sides told a local newspaper Monday.

January 27, 2020

Justice Department calls on Congress to extend ban on fentanyl and its knockoffs

Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen on Monday warned that House Democrats are risking American lives if they don't hurry up in extending a ban on knockoffs of the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl.

January 27, 2020

Prince Andrew called uncooperative in Jeffrey Epstein probe

Britain's Prince Andrew is refusing to cooperate with the Justice Department's Jeffrey Epstein investigation, despite saying he would cooperate fully with authorities, New York's top federal prosecutor said Monday.

January 27, 2020

Feds seek to keep guns belonging to Coast Guard officer accused of targeting lawmakers

Federal prosecutors asked a Maryland judge Monday to let the government keep the arsenal stockpiled by a Coast Guard lieutenant accused of amassing weapons to murder left-leaning Supreme Court justices, journalists and lawmakers.

January 27, 2020

Doug Collins urges action on fentanyl scheduling status, which is set to expire in February

Fentanyl, a deadly synthetic opioid, is set to become legal next month unless House Democrats vote to extend its illegal status, but they're just beginning to debate the issue this week.

January 26, 2020

Accused Russian troll farm loses bid to quash subpoena in case brought by Mueller

The Justice Department has the authority to subpoena a Russian company indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller, a federal judge ruled Friday.

January 24, 2020

Judge suggests Michael Flynn testify under oath to withdraw guilty plea

A federal judge suggested Friday that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn may need to testify under oath in order to withdraw his guilty plea for lying to investigators in the Russia probe.

January 24, 2020

Mustafa al-Imam sentenced in Benghazi terror attack

A Libyan man who as a lookout for the Islamist militants who stormed the U.S. embassy in Benghazi in 2012 was sentenced to 19 and 1/2 years in a federal prison Thursday.

January 23, 2020

Senate Republicans demand to know how Pensacola shooter Ahmed Mohammed al-Shamrani got visa

Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee are demanding to know how the Saudi national who killed three people last month at a Pensacola, Florida, naval base obtained a visa to train with the U.S. military.

January 23, 2020

Two of FBI’s FISA warrants for Carter Page ‘not valid’: DOJ

The Justice Department concluded two of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants authorizing the surveillance of Carter Page were "not valid," according to a court order declassified Thursday.

January 23, 2020

Randy Credico, witness against Roger Stone, asks judge to spare Trump confidant of jail time

The star prosecution witness against Roger Stone implored a federal judge Thursday to spare the longtime Republican operative from jail.

January 23, 2020

‘Crying Nazi’ involved in 2017 Charlottesville rally arrested by FBI

A New Hampshire man nicknamed the "crying Nazi" and was involved in the violence following the 2017 Unite the Right rally was arrested Thursday, the FBI said.

January 23, 2020

Calling Russian oligarch by nickname ‘Putin’s chef’ is fair game, federal prosecutors say

Jurors should be told that the Russian oligarch accused of bankrolling a notorious troll farm to meddle in the 2016 election was nicknamed "Putin's chef" at his upcoming criminal trial, federal prosecutors said in a filing Thursday.

January 23, 2020