By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Say it ain’t so Sheriff Joe. The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Thursday against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, claiming the Arizona lawman and his department have refused to fully cooperate with the feds’ investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics in police practices and jail operations. The…
By The Washington Post Editorial Page WASHINGTON — “THIS IS SOMETHING that I think needs to be done, not tomorrow, but yesterday.” Those were the words of Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in March to a House subcommittee on the subject of preventing sexual abuse in prison. Five months have passed since then, and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Seven- time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens, who was indicted last week on charges of lying to Congress about steroid use, is adding a former federal prosecutor to his team, ESPN.com reports. Michael Attanasio, a federal prosecutor in Washington from 1991 to 1999, who is now a partner in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — It doesn’t look like the Justice Department will be filing any criminal charges against former House leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex). Mike Allen of Politico reports that the Justice Department is dropping its six-year probe into Delay and his ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Allen attributed his information to…
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Every young lawyer remembers the guy who gave him his first real job. For me and some others, it was a mark of…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — In courtroom 18 in the sterile D.C. federal courthouse, Justice Department prosecutors earlier this month tried nailing a major producer of adult pornography on obscenity charges. The lawyers, part of the department’s Obscenity Prosecution Task Force, spent four days presenting their case against California porn producer John…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility has cleared New Jersey’s ex-acting U.S. Attorney and the former head of the Newark FBI of wrongdoing related to statements they made in 2009 at a press conference regarding a major public corruption indictment of more than 40 people, the Newark Star-Ledger reported. The…
By Andrew Alexander Washington Post Ombudsman WASHINGTON — Thursday’s Post reported about a growing controversy over the Justice Department’s decision to scale down a voter-intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party. The story succinctly summarized the issues but left many readers with a question: What took you so long? For months, readers…
