Chevron is negotiating a plea deal that includes at least $25 million in fines and an acknowledgment that it should have known kickbacks were being paid to Saddam Hussein in…
Congressional investigators reportedly are probing whether a ninth U.S. attorney should be included among the current list of eight top prosecutors who allegedly may have been fired as part of…
In what reportedly may be the first time this has happened in Oregon, a prosecutor in Deschutes County is asking a convicted defendant to foot a substantial portion of the…
Lining up potential witnesses in the ongoing Congressional investigation of alleged politically motivated firing of prosecutors and hiring of career attorneys at the Justice Department, legislators both called a new…
A new name is emerging in the ongoing controversy over the suspected influence of Republican party politics in the appointment of federal prosecutors: Bradley Schlozman.
In all the arguing over whether U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should be asked to resign, several important facts seem to have been forgotten, a former member of Congress says.
The Justice Department would suffer a severe blow if accusations are proven true that political loyalty was a basis for screening job applicants, according to a former deputy attorney general.
In testimony today before a U.S. House judiciary committee investigating the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, a former top Justice Department attorney praised all but one of them.
Two former St. Louis area police officers have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit a federal civil rights violation for their role in beating a jail inmate.
A Montana senator is calling for the resignation of the U.S. attorney in his state because of disclosures he sought to change a federal residency requirement for his benefit.
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