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Contractor for US government charged with spying for Ethiopia, officials say
The man is accused of using an encrypted messaging application to transmit maps, photographs and satellite imagery to the foreign government, according to court documents.
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Google search engine at center of US antitrust trial
The Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google nearly three years ago.
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‘We'll kill you': Election workers face death threats, lynching warnings nationwide, officials say
More than a dozen people nationally have been charged with threatening election workers by a Justice Department unit trying to stem the tide of violent and graphic threats against people who count and secure the vote.
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Trump has been indicted in a fourth case. Here's where all the investigations stand
Donald Trump has now been indicted in a fourth case, with the former president being charged Monday in Georgia over his efforts to overturn his 2020 general election defeat in the state.
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Georgia grand jury indicts Trump in election probe
There were 19 total defendants, including Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.
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Justice Department sends Trump first batch of evidence in classified documents case
Trump was indicted this month on 37 felony charges, including 31 counts under the Espionage Act that accuse him of willfully retaining national defense information.
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Trump allies say Biden is ‘weaponizing' DOJ against his chief 2024 rival following indictment
Although the former president was indicted on seven charges in a probe by Special Counsel Jack Smith, many Republicans on Capitol Hill turned their focus to President Joe Biden.
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Rep. George Santos Charged by Justice Department, Say Sources
The New York Republican is the subject of multiple investigations into his finances and other issues.
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With Changes Stalled in Congress, Attorney General Making Moves to End Glaring Sentencing Disparities in Cocaine Cases
Sentencing rules imposed in the 1980s have long led to harsher penalties for different forms of cocaine and, experts say, worsened racial inequity in the U.S. justice system.
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Attorney General Appoints Special Counsel for Trump Investigations
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday that he was appointing a former federal prosector as special counsel into the Justice Department’s investigations into former President Donald Trump.
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$2.2 Billion Penguin Random House-Simon & Schuster Merger Blocked by Federal Judge
Prior to the federal judge’s decision, the publishing industry had been consolidating for years with little interference from the government.
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Chinese Officials Charged With Espionage, Obstruction
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Monday that the Justice Department has unsealed charges against 13 Chinese government officials for allegedly spying on U.S. prosecutors, facilitating fugitives and working to subvert U.S. intelligence efforts on behalf of the People’s Republic of China.
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Benjamin Civiletti, Former Attorney General Under President Jimmy Carter, Dies at 87
A U.S. attorney general during President Jimmy Carter’s administration, Benjamin R. Civiletti, has died at age 87. The current attorney general, Merrick Garland, announced the death of his former boss and hailed what he called Civiletti’s “skill, integrity and dedication.” The Baltimore Sun reports that Civiletti died Sunday evening of Parkinson’s at his home in Lutherville, Maryland. In the Carter...
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‘Fighting Fit': Trial to Show Oath Keepers' Road to Jan. 6
It’s been a long road to the upcoming Capitol riot trial of the the leader of the extremist group Oath Keepers. But the prosecution’s case against Stewart Rhodes covers a lot more than just the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021.
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Jeffrey Clark, Who Trump Considered for AG, Had Phone Seized in Obstruction Probe
Federal agents who seized former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark‘s phone in June were looking for evidence of crimes of making false statements, criminal conspiracy and obstruction of justice, according to a new filing. Clark, who former President Donald Trump considered naming U.S. attorney general as part of his effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, told officials with...
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US, Trump Team Propose Names for Arbiter in Mar-A-Lago Probe
The Justice Department and Donald Trump’s legal team have proposed candidates to serve as an independent arbiter in the investigation into top-secret information found in an FBI search of the former president’s Florida home. Lawyers for Trump say the so-called special master should review all documents seized by the FBI, but the Justice Department says it does not believe the...
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DOJ Completes Review of Attorney-Client Privilege Materials Seized From Mar-a-Lago
The Justice Department has completed its review of potentially privileged documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate this month and has identified “a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information,” according to a court filing Monday.
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Biden Reacts to Mar-a-Lago Affidavit
efore declining to comment on the release of the Mar-a-Lago affidavit, President Joe Biden took a jab at his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, who has asserted his stores of classified materials were actually declassified. “I just want you to know, I’ve declassified everything in the world. I can do it, I’m president,” Biden joked. “Come on.”
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Justice Department's Probable Cause Outlined in Released Mar-a-Lago Affidavit
A judge released a redacted affidavit Friday, outlining the Justice Department’s probable cause for the Aug. 8 search of former President Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago.
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Judge Orders DOJ to Redeact Portions of Affidavit for Mar-a-Lago Search
A federal magistrate judge ordered the Justice Department to redact portions of affidavit documents relating to the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago in a possible step toward making the search documents public. The Justice Department has until next Thursday to submit redactions to the court.