Jeff Mordock

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

FBI releases age-progressed photos of alleged Pan Am Flight 73 hijackers

The FBI released age-progressed photographs of the four alleged terrorists charged with the 1986 hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 that killed 20 people.

January 11, 2018

French historian pleads guilty to stealing dead soldiers’ dog tags from National Archives facility

A French historian pled guilty to stealing the dog tags of dead American World War II soldiers and selling them on Ebay.

January 11, 2018

Jeff Sessions creates Hezbollah narcoterrorism team

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has created a team to focus on drug trafficking and other crimes by Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed militant organization in Lebanon.

January 11, 2018

Akayed Ullah indicted in New York Port Authority bomb attack

The suspect accused of detonating a bomb near the New York Port Authority last month was indicted on six counts by a federal grand jury.

January 10, 2018

James McHenry named head of Immigration Review office

One the nation's critical immigration offices has a new head, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday.

January 10, 2018

Prison population dropped slightly in 2016: Bureau of Justice Statistics

Former President Barack Obama's efforts to cut the number of drug offenders in the nation's prisons paid off with the federal and state prison population dropping in 2016, for the third straight year.

January 10, 2018

First denaturalization occurs under DOJ’s Operation Janus

A federal court has stripped U.S. citizenship from a man who was supposed to have been deported but instead was naturalized after the government botched a fingerprint check, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

January 9, 2018

Fusion GPS demands judge in libel suit recuse himself

The research firm behind the controversial Trump dossier demanded Monday that a federal judge appointed by President Trump recuse himself from presiding over a libel case involving BuzzFeed's publishing of the dossier last year.

January 8, 2018

Jeff Sessions ramps up federal enforcement of marijuana laws, rescinds Obama memos

Attorney General Jeff Sessions moved Thursday to revoke the Obama-era see-no-evil policy on federal enforcement of marijuana laws, announcing that federal law enforcement will no longer look the other way even in states that have legalized use of the drug.

January 4, 2018

FOIA requests drawn out for decades

The federal Freedom of Information Act was supposed to give the public relatively quick and easy access to the very government documents their taxes paid for -- but the system is increasingly broken, with some agencies still working on requests filed some 20 years ago.

January 2, 2018

William Bozeman, Federal Reserve in patent fight over fraud detection software

William Bozeman, an independent inventor with a colorful history, says he used to have a good relationship with the Federal Reserve System and even helped improve its fraud detection efforts. So he was stunned when the government's central bank went to war with him "out of nowhere" by filing a federal lawsuit and two challenges to his patents with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

December 28, 2017

NFL looks to recover from record low TV ratings

The NFL is approaching the playoffs looking for a ratings turnaround after a year of record-low television numbers.

December 24, 2017