WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday that his testimony to Congress about a controversial gun-smuggling probe was truthful and accurate and that Republicans are engaging in political posturing when they say otherwise. In his most forceful criticism of Republicans during his time as attorney general, Holder said that he had said little so [...]
WASHINGTON — It seemed too good to be true and largely was. A report released by the Justice Department’s acting inspector general on Sept. 20 uncovered a treasure chest of “wasteful or extravagant spending” at law enforcement conferences during the past two administrations. But one item stood out above the others: muffins that were apparently [...]
NEW YORK — A document obtained by the ACLU shows for the first time how the four largest cellphone companies in the U.S. treat data about their subscribers’ calls, text messages, Web surfing and approximate locations. The one-page document from the Justice Department’s cybercrime division shows, for instance, that Verizon Wireless keeps, for a year, [...]
WASHINGTON — When the Justice Department submitted a petition to the Supreme Court yesterdayurging it to declare once and for all that the 2010 health care overhaul is constitutional, the department made a point of mentioning the only Republican-appointed judge who has so far upheld the individual mandate. Indeed, the Obama administration made that point repeatedly. [...]
WASHINGTON — More than three decades after the United States Congress passed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act — striking a major blow against international corruption by criminalizing bribes to foreign officials — the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is trying to carve out some major exceptions in the law to prevent prosecutors from enforcing it too aggressively. [...]
WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement officials say 72 people have been charged with participating in an online international network engaged in sexual abuse of children. Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano say a law enforcement effort called Operation Delego (del-EGG-o) investigated more than 500 people around the world since the probe [...]
WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice is preparing a lawsuit against Wells Fargo, the nation’s largest home mortgage lender, for allegedly preying upon African American borrowers during the housing bubble and steering them into high-cost subprime loans, according to three people with direct knowledge of the probe. The company, the fourth-largest U.S. bank by assets, [...]
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