Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A defense lawyer whose expertise is white-collar crime was nominated Tuesday to be assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s criminal division, the New York Times reports. President Obama nominated Leslie R. Caldwell, a former federal prosecutor who worked in the Northern District of California and the Eastern District of New York….
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The DEA sting operation involving the laundering of money to drug cartels that has angered some Republican congressmen actually dates back to the Reagan administration, according to the Justice Department. Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Ronald Weich sent a letter to Rep. Darrel Issa–the Republic congressman leading the charges against…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com You needn’t go to the oddsmakers in Vegas to predict whether the anthrax case will be reopened for a fresh examination. Just ask Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Ia.). Grassley, one of several politicians who have been skeptical of the FBI findings that government scientist Bruce Ivins sent the letters, said it would…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Seattle U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan doesn’t have a secret. As the first openly gay federal prosecutor, she speaks freely of being gay, and did so again Monday as the keynote speaker at the Justice Department’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride month ceremony in Washington. “I stand before you as the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Under the Bush years, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division took a beating. The administration was accused of politicizing its hiring. And nearly 70 percent of the lawyers left in mass between 2003 and 2007, the Washington Post reported. Now Thomas E. Perez, who heads the division, is working…
Not a bad idea in a country where fraud is running rampant and costing taxpayers far more than they can imagine. By Carrie Johnson The Washington Post WASHINGTON– The Obama administration today announced it would expand Justice Department health-care strike forces to Detroit and Houston, part of a broader commitment to root out fraud in…
