By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It was Billy Joel who once sang “Only the Good Die Young.” Not so. AP reported that retired Justice Department official John C. Keeney, the longest-serving federal prosecutor in history, died on Saturday in Kensington, Md., at age 89. In a statement posted on the Justice Department website on Monday, Attorney…
By Nedra Pickler Associated Press WASHINGTON – The special prosecutor who investigated the botched case against late Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens is not recommending criminal charges against any of the Justice Department attorneys who tried him despite finding widespread misconduct beyond what has yet been publicly revealed. The findings in a two-and-a-half-year investigation by Washington…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department on Thursday announced a civil rights investigation into the Miami Police Department involving deadly use of force in nine police shootings — eight of which were fatal. “In the past 16 months, we have seen nine police involved shootings that are of concern and are the premise of…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Attorney General Eric Holder can’t get a break. On break from congressional hounding over ATF’s Fast and Furious program, Holder is now being criticized over an ongoing visit to the Caribbean. The Daily Beast reports that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who has been sharply critical of Holder over the Fast and Furious…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A former state representative in Alabama pleaded guilty Tuesday to accepting cash, gifts and campaign money from a businessman and a lobbyist in exchange for political favors, the Justice Department said. Terry Spicer, 46, who had been cooperating with the government long before 11 arrests were made in a vote-buying investigation…
By Carrie Johnson NPR WASHINGTON — A top political appointee in the Obama Justice Department says he made a “mistake” when he didn’t flag questionable tactics used by federal agents in a gun-trafficking case for his superiors last year. Lanny A. Breuer, assistant attorney general in charge of the criminal division, told NPR he found…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Folks like talk show host Bill O’Reilly talked incessantly about the government spending $16 a muffin at a conference even after press reports began to surface that the Justice Department report on the issue probably wasn’t true. The Hilton hotel had disputed it all along, saying the price included multiple breakfast…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Nearly three years into the Obama administration, the Justice Department appears to be as hard-nosed about challenging reporters’ rights to protect confidential sources as it was under the Bush administration. The latest: The Justice Department has gone to the Court of Appeals to challenge District judge, who ruled that New York…
