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Jeff Mordock

jmordock@washingtontimes.com

Jeff Mordock is the White House reporter for The Washington Times. A native of Newtown, Pennsylvania, he previously worked for Gannett and has won awards from both the Delaware Press Association and the Maryland Delaware D.C. Press Association. He is a graduate of George Washington University and can be reached at jmordock@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Jeff Mordock

Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the Department of Justice's budget on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Chinese nationals among 10 new defendants in fentanyl case

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.

April 27, 2018
Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. ** FILE **

Peter Strzok-Lisa Page texts sent to Congress

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.

April 26, 2018
Screen capture from the DEA's official website for the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, slated this year for Saturday, April 28. (takebackday.dea.gov)

Battle looms over cost of disposing unused prescription drugs

Gun buyback programs have proven so popular that the government is trying the same approach with drugs, asking people to turn in unused opioids, hoping to get them out of people's medicine cabinets before they are used to feed someone's addiction.

April 26, 2018
President Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen appears in front of members of the media after a closed door meeting with the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Michael Cohen to plead Fifth in Stormy Daniels lawsuit

Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal attorney, said in court papers Wednesday he will assert his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination in an investigation involving his payment of hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels.

April 25, 2018
Paul Manafort departs Federal District Court for a hearing, Thursday, April 19, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Prosecutors defend search of Manafort’s storage locker

A search of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's storage locker was legal because a business associate who signed a lease for the unit allowed the FBI inside, prosecutors from special counsel Robert Mueller's office said in court filing late Monday night.

April 24, 2018
Police officers ride in the back of a pickup truck as they tend to a victim following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. (John McCall/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

Justice Department awards $1M grant to Parkland first responders

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.

April 23, 2018
US Attorney Loretta Lynch, center, looks to Attorney General Eric Holder as with President Barack Obama at right, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014, where the president announced that he will nominate Lynch to replace Holder as Attorney General. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Justice Department’s attempts to influence investigations exposed in McCabe probe

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.

April 23, 2018