The U.S. Justice Department is preparing to release flight logs and other documents linked to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier accused of sex trafficking, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Wednesday.
Emil Bove has a reputation for bulldozing through norms
The Department of Justice has widened its interpretation of former President Donald Trump’s pardons for Jan. 6 defendants, now applying clemency to separate but related gun charges stemming from FBI searches.
Donald Trump has ordered the Justice Department to remove all remaining U.S. attorneys appointed during the Biden administration, an apparent effort to eliminate prosecutors who might push back against his agenda.
A federal judge in Manhattan appears unlikely to rubber-stamp the Justice Department’s request to dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams just weeks before his trial.
The FBI has provided the Justice Department with names of employees who worked on January 6-related cases after a tense standoff over protecting agent identities.
A top Justice Department official assured FBI agents they wouldn’t be fired for working on Jan. 6 investigations and accused bureau leaders of insubordination for initially refusing to release their names.
In his final days in office, President Biden commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 inmates, aiming to correct what he saw as unjustly long prison terms for drug offenses.
