By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com DETROIT — Imagine if you will, if former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was able to pay the Justice Department hundreds of thousands of dollars instead of going to prison for 28 years. Imagine if Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, accused of having a hand in 19 murders, was able to pay a…
Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton did nothing wrong when she deleted non-work related message from her personal e-mail account while she was the secretary of state, the Justice Department said in a court filing.
If you ask, corporate criminal defense attorneys will tell you — as they have told me — the one thing their corporate clients want to avoid when facing off against the federal government is an admission of wrongdoing — to have to plead guilty to the crimes they have committed.
The Justice Department has pledged to prioritize prosecution of Wall Street criminals.
In an attempt to get more oversight, the Justice Department said Thursday it will seek more judicial and internal supervision as it uses technology to track cellphones.
Top Justice Department officials are accused of withholding information from a judge about irregularities in a lawsuit against the ATF.
The Associated Press is suing the Justice Department after the FBI created a fake AP story in an attempt to plant surveillance software on a suspect’s computer.
DeKalb County government is “rotten to the core,” investigators said, outlining allegations of bribery, theft of government property and corruption.
