Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department plans to announce it is investigating excessive force within the Cleveland Police Department, WXYC Channel 3 reports. The probe involves a police pursuit in November when Cleveland cops fired 137 bullets at an unarmed man and woman. WXYC reported that a news conference is expected today to announce the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama is expected to nominate Thomas Perez, a civil rights expert, as his choice to head the Department of Labor, the Associated Press reports. Head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division since 2009, the 51-year-old could be nominated as early as today. Perez led an effort to challenge voter ID…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The rate of women and girls 12 or older who are being sexually assaulted has decreased 64% over the past decade, the Justice Department reported Thursday, CBS News reports. In 2010, for example, 270,000 rapes or sexual assaults were investigated, compared to 560,000 in 1995 CBS News wrote. The biggest drops occurred…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Attorneys for the FBI are defying a judge’s orders to hand over all of its evidence to defendant George Zimmerman, the man accused of killing an unarmed black teenager with a gun, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The Justice Department argues in paperwork filed this week that the state court cannot trump…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Tracy Schmaler, head of the Justice Department’s public affairs office, is stepping down to join the private sector, the Washington Post reports. Schmaler, whose departure next month leaves another vacancy at the top level of the department, took a job for ASGK Public Strategies, a firm created by former senior White House…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department and FBI warned Thursday that public safety is at risk if across-the-board budget cuts proceed, the Huffington Post reports. The result would be devastating: FBI furloughs would reduce the number of cases the bureau can take; the Justice Department wouldn’t be able to prosecute as many cases; and the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department’s expert on public corruption and financial fraud is leaving the federal government, the Washington Post reports. Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer, head of the criminal division, is calling it quits, the Post reports. Breuer has been praised for aggressively pursuing white-collar crime and beefing up the division’s involvement…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department was sharply criticized Thursday for rarely checking references for law-enforcement candidates, according to a report by the agency’s inspector general, the Washington Post wrote. The report said all government agencies are encouraged to conduct reference checks when choosing new employees, the report said. The Justice Department only mandates those…
