Last summer, just a few weeks after Cassidy Hutchinson’s public testimony on Donald Trump’s response to the 2020 election loss, the January 6 committee held a meeting with Jennifer Moore, the FBI administrator overseeing intelligence in the bureau’s D.C. office during the lead-up to the Capitol attack. The committee sought to understand why the federal …
The Justice Department is appealing the prison sentences for four leaders of the Proud Boys and one member convicted in the US Capitol attack. Prosecutors are challenging the punishments handed down by US District Judge Timothy Kelly, which were significantly shorter than what they had recommended. Former Proud Boys national leader Enrique Tarrio and three …
When Judge Tanya Chutkan of the federal district court for D.C. was assigned the trial of Donald Trump for his attempt to steal the election, according to the journalist Robert Draper, she asked a friend to pray for her. Chutkan’s decision today to impose a gag order on the former president, her most consequential pronouncement …
Special Counsel Jack Smith vehemently opposes former President Donald Trump’s request to postpone the trial for mishandling classified documents until after the 2024 presidential election. This content has been optimized for SEO, enhanced in terms of creativity and uniqueness, and improved in syntax, tone, perplexity, and burstiness. Trump’s legal team claims that the Justice Department …
The Department of Defense logo is seen ahead of a press conference at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on August 15, 2023. Celal Gunes | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images WASHINGTON — A former U.S. Army sergeant was arrested Friday for allegedly attempting to provide classified national security information to China, as announced by the …
Freedom Holding, a Kazakh financial firm traded on Nasdaq, is currently being investigated by federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over compliance issues, insider stock trading, and ties to sanctioned individuals, according to CNBC sources and documents. The SEC’s Boston office has been investigating Freedom for several months, while the US Attorney’s …
A subplot has emerged in the ongoing antitrust trial between Google and the federal government, involving one of Google’s prominent law firms. New York-based law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison is facing potential disqualification from the case due to ethics violations. The firm had previously represented several of Google’s accusers, including Yelp, Spotify, …
The office of speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is hereby declared vacant. With those words, spoken in the House on Tuesday afternoon, Kevin McCarthy’s reign as speaker came to an inglorious end. McCarthy is the first speaker in history to be removed by his own party; eight Republicans voted …
The federal government has taken legal action against eBay, alleging that the online platform has violated the Clean Air Act and other environmental laws. The government’s complaint, filed in federal court in Brooklyn, NY, suggests that eBay could face significant penalties, potentially amounting to billions of dollars. Each violation of the Clean Air Act alone …
In a remarkable turn of events, an ex-contractor for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been accused of leaking confidential tax information of the wealthiest individuals in the United States to media outlets. The Justice Department revealed that Charles Edward Littlejohn, a 38-year-old resident of Washington, DC, stole tax return data and shared it with …