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Mark Meadows blasts FBI, says Peter Strzok text scandal ‘stinks to high heaven’

Rep. Mark Meadows, Republican North Carolina, demanded the FBI "tell the truth" about missing texts in an epic tweet storm Tuesday night.

January 24, 2018

Donald Trump accuses the FBI of blaming Samsung for missing texts

President Donald Trump accused the FBI of blaming Samsung for losing five months of texts exchanged between two agents who were a part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible links between the Trump campaign and Russia.

January 24, 2018

Security experts question FBI’s data storage procedures

The FBI may have ignored its own data storage procedures as it lost five months of text messages between two anti-Trump FBI employees, security analysts said.

January 23, 2018

Ron Johnson says Peter Strzok had doubts about Mueller probe

FBI agent Peter Strzok had doubts about special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into ties between Russia and the Trump campaign, said U.S. Senator Ron Johnson, Wisconsin Republican.

January 23, 2018

Trump: Missing FBI texts ‘one of the biggest stories in a long time’

President Donald Trump called the missing texts between FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page "one of the biggest stories in a long time."

January 23, 2018

Jeff Sessions: Anti-Trump FBI officials exchanged more than 50,000 texts

The two FBI officials who have been criticized for anti-Trump texts, exchanged more than 50,000 text messages, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday night.

January 22, 2018

Xu Jiaqiang, former IBM employee, sentenced for selling trade secrets

A former developer for IBM was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday for selling trade secrets related to the company's software, the Department of Justice said.

January 19, 2018

Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino of ‘Jersey Shore’ guilty of tax fraud

Former "Jersey Shore" star Michael "The Situation" Sorrentino and his brother have pleaded guilty to tax fraud, the Justice Department said Friday.

January 19, 2018

Government to auction off $50 million in Bitcoins

The government this week will auction bitcoins seized by authorities from a Russian hacker, a young Mormon accused of being an opioid kingpin and other high-profile cases.

January 19, 2018

HSBC to pay $101.5 million to settle price-fixing claims

HSBC Holdings has agreed to pay $101.5 million to settle claims it defrauded two of its clients.

January 18, 2018

Christopher Hill, deputy U.S. Marshal, killed serving warrant in Pennsylvania

A deputy U.S. Marshal was killed in the line of duty Thursday morning while executing an arrest warrant in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the agency announced.

January 18, 2018

Grand jury indicts 104 in Puerto Rico drug trafficking ring

A federal grand jury has indicted 104 individuals for their involvement in a massive drug trafficking operation.

January 18, 2018

Juan Carlos Velasco Cano, Colombian national, sentenced for bribing ICE agent in narcotics probe

A Colombian national was sentenced to 27 months in prison for bribing a federal agent, resulting in the dismissal of an indictment filed against an alleged drug kingpin.

January 17, 2018

Former Barclays exec charged in scheme to defraud Hewlett-Packard

The former head of U.S. foreign exchange trading at Barclays has been charged with defrauding Hewlett-Packard Co. by manipulating the market ahead of its $11 billion acquisition of Autonomy Corp.

January 17, 2018

Jerry Chun Shing Lee, former CIA officer, arrested for keeping classified records

A former CIA officer was arrested Monday on charges of unlawful retention of national defense information, the Justice Department said.

January 16, 2018

Justice Dept. files motion supporting Archdiocese in fight over religious Christmas ads

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a "friend of the court" motion Tuesday, arguing that Metro violated the Archdiocese of Washington's First Amendment rights in banning religious ads last Christmas.

January 16, 2018

Jeff Sessions praises Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy at Justice Department event

Attorney General Jeff Sessions praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy, saying it still influences the Department of Justice nearly 50 years after his assassination.

January 16, 2018

Marchello McCain, brother of U.S. man killed fighting for ISIS, sentenced to 10 years

The brother of a San Diego man who was said to be the first U.S. citizen fighting alongside the Islamic State group was sentenced on terrorism-related charges.

January 15, 2018

In Raiders’ stadium deal, Nevada unable to impose new taxes on team for 30 years

Nevada taxpayers shelled out $750 million to build a stadium for the Las Vegas Raiders — and the deal may prevent the state from being able to recoup that money by imposing new taxes on the NFL team.

January 14, 2018

Maryland transportation exec accused of bribing Russian official

The former co-president of a Maryland transportation company that moved to nuclear materials across the United States is accused of bribing an official at a subsidiary of Russia's State Atomic Energy Corp.

January 12, 2018