Tag Archives: Justice Department
Exclusive: DOJ Negotiates with JP Morgan
Have a new story up today at International Business Times (IBT) on DOJ’s negotiations with JP Morgan to end DOJ’s probe of the bank for its work on behalf of Bernard Madoff. The top of my story: Federal prosecutors in … Continue reading
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The Big Stone Wall: Nine Bush Era Senior Officials Refused to Cooperate with DOJ probes
New piece out on Talking Points Memo: At least nine Bush administration officials refused to cooperate with various Justice Department investigations during the final days of the Bush presidency, according to public records and interviews with federal law enforcement officials … Continue reading
Exclusive: Bush appointees attempted to thwart US Attorney Probe
A report to be made public tomorrow morning by the Justice Department detailing findings of its investigation into the firings of nine U.S. attorneys will say that the efforts of investigators were severely stymied in large part by the lack … Continue reading
Prosecutor at Stevens Trial: “We reach for the Yellow Pages. He reached for VECO.”
Opening statements from the Ted Stevens bribery trial: WASHINGTON — The corruption trial of Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens began Thursday with sharply divergent portraits of the long-serving Republican. In opening statements in the highly anticipated case, prosecutors accused Stevens of … Continue reading
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The Price of Political Favoritism and Cronyism: Lost Lives and Teenage Suicides
In the broader scheme of things, the Justice Department’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is a fairly obscure agency. By law its core missions are to decrease the disproportional numbers of minority children incarcerated, prevent teenage delinquency, … Continue reading
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New story out on ABCNews.com on favoritism in Justice Department’s grants program
I have a new story out this morning on ABCNews.com about the politicization of the awarding of grants in the Justice Department’s quarter of a billion dollars juvenile justice and delinquency prevention grants program. My story this morning focuses on … Continue reading
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Tagged Best Friends, Bill Bennett, elayne bennett, Justice Department, murray waas, OJJDP, sexual abstinence, teenage sexuality
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