Topline The Justice Department will review the Memphis Police Department, as well as the use of specialized police units nationally, after five officers from a special unit were charged with second-de...
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Here’s What You May Have Missed In The Probes Into Trump, Biden And Pence
Topline New revelations Friday about how classified documents ended up at Mar-A-Lago—with multiple outlets reporting that a junior aide to former President Trump brought one box there after the FBI ra...
Proud Boys’ Lawyers Plan To Subpoena Donald Trump In Sedition Trial, Reports Say
Topline Lawyers representing members of the Proud Boys—a far-right group accused of leading the charge on the Capitol on January 6 in an attempt to stop the transfer of power to Joe Biden—plan to subp...
Chief Justice Roberts’ Wife Is Latest Supreme Court Spouse To Spark Ethics Concerns
Topline The wife of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is facing scrutiny for potential conflict of interests after a former colleague warned the Justice Department and Congress about her role a...
DOJ Finds More Classified Documents Following Search Of Biden’s Wilmington Residence
Topline The Justice Department discovered additional documents including some with classified markings at President Joe Biden’s Wilmington residence following a thorough search of the property on Frid...
Abbott Under Federal Investigation Over Baby Formula—Here’s How The Pharmaceutical Giant Got Here
Topline The Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation on Friday into an Abbott Laboratories plant in Michigan over unsanitary workplace conditions in its production of baby formula—the lat...
Bitzlato founder arrested for allegedly processing $700 million in illicit funds
The founder of cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato was arrested and charged with processing $700 million in illicit funds, part of the Justice Department’s efforts to take down a “money laund...
Justice Department Declined Using FBI For Biden Document Search, Report Says
Topline The Justice Department recently decided against calling in FBI agents to monitor searches of President Joe Biden’s homes for classified documents, according to the Wall Street Journal, after r...
Who Is Robert Hur, The Special Counsel Investigating Biden’s Classified Documents?
Topline Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Robert Hur Thursday to serve as an independent special counsel investigating classified White House documents found at President Joe Biden’s home and...
Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty to fraud charges in New York
Former FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried (C) arrives to enter a plea before US District Judge Lewis Kaplan in the Manhattan federal court, New York, January 3, 2023. Ed Jones | AFP | Getty Images...
Here’s All The Legal Trouble George Santos Faces As He Joins Congress
Topline Incoming Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) arrives on Capitol Hill Tuesday to begin his tenure in the House as he comes under an increasing amount of legal scrutiny, with local, state, federal and n...
Cassidy Hutchinson Said Trump Allies Pressured Her Not To Testify, Transcripts Show
Topline Cassidy Hutchinson—a former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows—told the House January 6 committee one of former President Donald Trump’s attorneys pressured her to withhold ...
Appeals Court Shuts Down Special Master Review Of Mar-A-Lago Documents
Topline A federal appeals court has cut short a special master’s review of White House documents the Department of Justice seized at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago estate, siding Thursday ...
SEC facing rising scrutiny after FTX’s epic implosion
After the high-profile implosion of FTX, crypto skeptics and digital currency advocates have both asked the question: Could the Securities and Exchange Commission have done more? Expect to hear ...
Appeals Court Appears Likely To Side With DOJ And Shut Down Trump Review
Topline A panel of appeals court judges signaled Tuesday they’re likely to end a special master’s review of documents the Justice Department seized from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago esta...
Sen. Bob Menendez Under Federal Investigation—Again
Topline Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) is under federal investigation, his advisor confirmed Wednesday, seven years after the senator was previously indicted for alleged bribery and corruption—which prose...
Biden Administration Wants To Make It Easier To Seize Crypto Without Criminal Charges
Buried deep in a 61-page recent report by the U.S. Attorney General, the Biden Administration called for a dramatic expansion in the federal government’s ability to seize and keep cryptocurrency. If e...
DOJ Charges Alleged Chinese Intelligence Officers With Trying To Interfere With Huawei Prosecution
Topline The Justice Department announced charges Monday against 13 people allegedly involved in attempts by the Chinese government to influence U.S. operations, including two Chinese nationals who wer...
Financial Advisor Pleads Guilty to Fraud After Airport Arrest
A Massachusetts investment advisor has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of fraud and other charges after a failed attempt to flee the country while he was awaiting trial. Steven Xigoros, of Lowell, M...
Supreme Court Rules Against Trump On Mar-A-Lago Classified Documents
Topline The Supreme Court ruled against former President Donald Trump Thursday, refusing to grant his request that a third-party special master be allowed to review classified materials found at Mar-A...
Trump Aide Reportedly Caught On Security Camera Moving Boxes At Mar-A-Lago—After DOJ Subpoena To Return Classified Documents
Topline Security cameras at Mar-A-Lago captured footage of boxes being moved at former President Donald Trump’s residence even after he was asked to return all classified government documents in his p...
FBI Interviewed Trump Lawyer Who Signed Off On Claim There Were No More Documents At Mar-A-Lago
Topline Trump attorney Christina Bobb met with Justice Department investigators Friday as part of the agency’s investigation into White House documents stored at Mar-A-Lago, multiple outlets report, a...
Trump To Get Some Mar-A-Lago Documents Back, Special Master Rules
Topline President Donald Trump will get back some of the documents the Justice Department seized at Mar-A-Lago, the special master reviewing the documents ordered Friday, though they are limited to do...
DOJ Reportedly Believes Trump Has More Government Documents
Topline The Justice Department believes former President Donald Trump has not returned all the government documents in his possession, according to multiple reports, indicating that Trump may be holdi...
Report Says Federal Agents Think Hunter Biden Could Be Charged — But Federal Prosecutor Has Yet To Decide
Topline An anonymously sourced report in the Washington Post Thursday claimed federal agents involved in investigating Hunter Biden think they have enough evidence to warrant criminal charges, though ...
Trump Asks Supreme Court To Rule On Mar-A-Lago Special Master
Topline Former President Donald Trump’s legal battle over a special master’s review of documents seized from Mar-A-Lago has now reached the Supreme Court, as the ex-president asked the high court Tues...
Trump Reportedly Trying To Block Information From DOJ Jan. 6 Grand Jury In Court
Topline Former President Donald Trump is asking a court to let him shield information from the Justice Department as it investigates the January 6 attack on the Capitol building and Trump’s efforts to...
New York Suit Against Trump Mixes Routine Business Law, Uncommon Allegations
The New York attorney general’s lawsuit against former President Donald Trump uses a common state business law to make allegations about property valuations, which lawyers say are rarely the focus of ...
Special Master Demands Trump Prove Claims FBI Planted Evidence At Mar-A-Lago
Topline The special master appointed to review White House documents seized at Mar-A-Lago asked former President Donald Trump’s attorneys Thursday to detail any documents the Justice Department may ha...
Special Master Skeptical Of Trump Attorneys’ Declassification Claims
Topline Attorneys for former President Donald Trump continued to argue in court Tuesday that the Justice Department cannot shield classified documents seized at Mar-A-Lago from a third-party special m...