Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has come under fire for questionable purchases using taxpayer dollars, WSB-TV 2 reports. The U.S. House Judiciary Committee found the department spent $600,000 on event planners to organize five Justice Department conferences, the news station found. Another $10,000 in federal police grants was spent on a pizza party. The…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is working on a deal that would reduce the prison sentence of former Enron Chief Executive Jeffrey K. Skilling, the Los Angeles Times reports. Skilling was convicted of insider trading, securities fraud and conspiracy, among other charges, in 2006. His attorney has been trying to overturn the conviction ever…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol supervisor pleaded guilty to assaulting another agent in a work meeting at a field office in Port Angeles, Washington, the Peninsula Daily News reports. On Wednesday, Mauricio G. Benitez, 42, acknowledged he choked an acting field operations supervisor and pinned him against a chair, the Daily News wrote. The…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Experts are worried about numerous vacancies in the criminal and national security divisions of the Justice Department, Sari Horwitz of the Washington Post reports. “There is no question that the vacancies always have an effect,” Robert Raben, an assistant attorney general in the Clinton administration, said. “Senior leadership matters in policymaking, responsiveness…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Attorney General Eric Holder said he’s prevented the furloughs of prison staffers nationwide to protect prison staff, inmates and the public, the Associated Press reports. Holder prevented the furloughs of some 38,000 employees at the U.S. Bureau of Prisons by moving $150 million from from Justice Department account, the AP wrote. The…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Support for tracking hate crimes against Sikhs, Hindus and Arab-Americans gained traction Thursday after more than 100 members of Congress sent a letter urging the FBI to take action, the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel reports. The letter urging the FBI to begin tracking hate crimes against those groups comes after the Department of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has abandoned it’s long-standing opposition to requiring law enforcement to obtain a warrant before gaining access to certain e-mails, the Washington Post reports. The department had objected to law enforcement accessing e-mails that are 180 days old or less if they had been unopened, the Post reported. “There is…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A report that chronicled “hostile, racist and inappropriate behavior” among Justice Department employees has prompted a senior Republican in Congress to question why the workers are still employed, the Washington Times repots. Sen. Chuck Grassley’s inquiry follows an alarming report by Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who found ideological differences that were disrupting…
