Saying that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has not fully cooperated with an investigation of the government’s flawed “Operation Fast and Furious” gun-trafficking sting, a Republican-led House of Representatives committee…
The partial acquittal and mistrial on Thursday in the John Edwards trial is the second high-profile loss this year for the Justice Department’s public integrity section.
On June 26, 1973, the growing Watergate scandal was already a year old, and John W. Dean III, President Richard M. Nixon’s former White House counsel, was in his second…
Hotels, water parks, and other facilities with pools recently got another extension to comply with American Disability Act standards, the Associated Press reports.
The U.S. Justice Department will suspend two prosecutors without pay based on its finding of “reckless professional misconduct” in the failed prosecution of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens.
Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who oversaw the prosecutions of former Illinois Govs. George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich, announced Wednesday that he is stepping down June 30.
A lawsuit that a lawyer aide filed against former Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell alleging that he wasn’t paid opened today in Delaware’s New Castle County Court of Common…
The U.S. Justice Department says it doesn’t keep track of the number of high-level executives convicted as a result of wrongdoing related to the financial crisis.
A trial to determine BP’s liability for the Gulf oil spill has been pushed back until January, giving the company more time to reach a deal with litigants not covered…
The U.S. Justice Department has announced it will investigate the handling of rape allegations at the University of Montana and the town of Missoula, where the college is located.
The U.S. Solicitor General’s office says it made an inadvertent error when it told the U.S. Supreme Court that federal officials routinely facilitate the return of wrongly deported immigrants.
An inspector general’s nine-year review of misconduct at the FBI crime lab found forensic flaws in hair analysis, but the results of the probe that ended in 2004 were revealed…
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