The Justice Department announced a new indictment that alleges WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange recruited and conspired with computer hackers to provide information for hacking groups LulzSec and Anonymous.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Attorney General William Barr isn’t getting a whole lot of love from his alma mater, George Washington University Law School. Law professors and faculty from school said in a letter Tuesday he has “failed to fulfill his oath of office to ‘support and defend the Constitution of the United States,” CNN…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Despite efforts to save the case, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivana must dismiss the charges against former national security adviser Michael Flynn as the Justice Department had requested. The a 2-1 decision said it is not within the judge’s power to prolong the prosecution or…
A former FBI agent is accused of storing sensitive government documents at his home in Chicago.
A federal prosecutor is expected to tell lawmakers on Wednesday that he “faced political influence” to go easy on Roger Stone, a GOP trickster and longtime Trump ally who was convicted of lying to Congress during its probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The discovery of a noose in the garage stall of NASCAR racer Bubba Wallace has triggered a federal investigation.
Paul Keenan, who most recently served as a section chief for the Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG), has been named special agent in charge of the Indianapolis Field Office.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-FBI Director James Comey weighs in on the weekend firing of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman in an Op-ed piece in the Washington Post titled “Geoffrey Berman upheld the finest tradition of the SDNY office.” Berman on Friday refused to step down, so President Trump fired him. Comey writes: Geoffrey Berman’s office…
