Two top employees in the unit of the Mexican attorney general’s office charged with fighting organized crime have instead been passing information to the Beltran-Leyva drug trafficking cartel about federal…
The Pentagon official who oversees the war crimes tribunals at Guantanamo Bay is facing two investigations into allegations he bullied prosecutors and retaliated against at least two military officials.
A motion filed by the law firm representing Broadcom’s former chief financial officer accuses a prosecutor who pursued backdating charges against company officials of leaking grand jury information and confidential…
Federal judges around the country are speaking out against what they view as harsh mandatory and recommended sentences for child pornography crimes, spurred in recent years by Congress and public…
A federal judge in Philadelphia questioned why a computer hacker was not charged with child pornography even though had had about 1,000 sexual images of children on his computer.
Charges have been dropped against five terrorism suspects at Guantanamo with links to Abu Zubaydah, an al-Qaida recruiter who was subjected to waterboarding during interrogations.
State and federal prosecutors in New York are investigating whether traders manipulated the market for credit default swaps, a kind of securitized insurance that protects against defaults on corporate bonds.
Bending to criticism from New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the American International Group will allow Cuomo’s office to review its spending, including its payments to executives who have since…
Two Texas brothers who won a $1.7 civil rights settlement in a false arrest case that brought down the local district attorney are now suing their own lawyer.
Faulty eyewitness identifications, often encouraged by flawed police procedures, were the reason why 18 of 19 men cleared by DNA evidence since 2001 were initially convicted in Dallas County, Texas,…
Victims of domestic violence in Chicago have a special court at which they can seek help. But, suffering from staff shortages and a deluge of cases, it doesn’t work as…
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