The Latest News about The Department of Justice

The Department of Justice and Special Counsel Robert Mueller will protect several witnesses involved in the Trump dossier mess, according to Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “As long as Mueller is running the Justice Department, effectively on these Russia investigations, all these witnesses that helped him get where he is today, are going to be, I think, protected,” Fitton said Wednesday on ...

Conspirators Included a Russian Intelligence “Close Access” Hacking Team Compromised Computer Networks Used by Anti-Doping and Sporting Officials Attacked Organizations Investigating Russia’s Use of Chemical Weapons A grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania has indicted seven defendants, all officers in the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), a military intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Armed Forces ...

The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit against the state of California alleging that Senate Bill 822, an Internet regulation bill signed into law earlier today by Governor Jerry Brown, unlawfully imposes burdens on the Federal Government’s deregulatory approach to the Internet, announced Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Acting Associate Attorney General Jesse Panuccio, Assistant Attorney General Joseph H. Hunt for ...

South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy said the information in a batch of Russia investigation documents that President Donald Trump was considering for declassification will prove “embarrassing” for the Department of Justice, FBI and former CIA Director John Brennan.

The FBI and the Department of Justice are reportedly planning redactions from certain Russia investigation materials for which President Donald Trump demanded declassification.

President Donald Trump’s order to immediately declassify FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) documents related to the Russia investigation will provide an unprecedented look into the government’s investigation of the Trump campaign.

A program leader for an international criminal gang pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday for conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise which included attempted murder announced the Justice Department. The Defendant brought guns from Florida and distributed them to MS-13 members in Maryland, participated in a shooting, and sold cocaine for the benefit of the Gang reports the ...

A Honduran national who was shot while being pursued by Border Patrol agents in Texas has been charged with assault announced the Justice Department on Wednesday. In Del Rio Texas, federal authorities filed a criminal complaint against 48–year-old Honduran National Leivin Pineda for allegedly assaulting a Border Patrol agent over the weekend near Eagle Pass reports United States Attorney John Bash ...

Two illegal aliens were arrested on August 28 in an immense counterfeit bank card scheme in St. Louis County. The United States Attorney’s Office has sought detention of Madalin and Solomes as it appears neither is legally in the United States. According to the Department of Justice, Mrejucia Madalin was traveling under a counterfeit Belgian passport in the name of another.  Laszlo Solomes ...

A former Indiana resident has been charged with conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State (ISIS) according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Indiana. Samantha Marie Elhassani, aka Samantha Sally, 32, formerly of Elkhart, Indiana, was charged on Aug. 22, in a two-count indictment with conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and ...

The Department of Justice has refused to take any steps to preserve work-related emails former FBI Director James Comey had on a personal account that The Daily Caller News Foundation and Judicial Watch requested under the Freedom of Information Act, the conservative watchdog will file in court Friday.

Mexican national Alonso Tapia-Gomez entered a guilty plea to the felony offense of Reentry of a Removed Alien, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart on Wednesday. After being deported on four separate occasions, Tapia-Gomez then illegally reentered the United States at least as many times. “One would think that Tapia-Gomez would have gotten the message by now,” said United States Attorney ...

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Monday that he has formed a task force to protect American’s right to religious freedom. “Today I am announcing our next step: the Religious Liberty Task Force,” Sessions said while speaking at the Department of Justice’s Religious Liberty Summit. “The Task Force will help the Department fully implement our religious liberty guidance by ensuring ...

Eddie Estuardo Galindo-Mendez, age 44, a Guatemalan citizen, pleaded guilty on Friday before U.S. Magistrate Judge D. Gordon Bryant, Jr., to bank robbery through the threatened use of a pipe bomb, announced Erin Nealy Cox, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. Galindo-Mendez has been in custody since his arrest in March and will remain in federal custody. Galindo-Mendez faces a ...

Rep. Matt Gaetz argued Friday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is covering up payments made to individuals who collected intelligence on the Trump presidential campaign. Appearing on Fox’s America’s Newsroom, Gaetz said: “I believe money was paid to people to collect intelligence on the Trump campaign.” “That crosses a line in this country, “when you’ve got folks that are collecting intelligence, ...