By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com No surprise here. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif), head of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, isn’t sad to see the resignation of Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, who heads the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Lanny Breuer’s resignation is long overdue,” Issa said in a press release issued late last week. “Breuer…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department’s expert on public corruption and financial fraud is leaving the federal government, the Washington Post reports. Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer, head of the criminal division, is calling it quits, the Post reports. Breuer has been praised for aggressively pursuing white-collar crime and beefing up the division’s involvement…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An Afghan national with ties to the Taliban who authorities described as “one of the largest heroin traffickers in the world” was convicted Tuesday in fed court in D.C. on drug and narco-terrrorism charges, the Justice Department said. Haji Bagcho, who hailed from Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, was investigated by the DEA….
By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Newly released Justice Department emails sent to Capitol Hill for a congressional inquiry into a gun-smuggling operation indicate that the head of the department’s criminal division suggested letting some illicit “straw” weapons buyers in the U.S. transport their guns across the border into Mexico where they could be arrested….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A man charged in the Feb. 15 murder in Mexico of ICE agent Jaime Zapata and the attempted murder of ICE agent Victor Avila has been extradited from Mexico to the U.S. to face trial. The Justice Department announced the charges and the extradition on Wednesday of Julian Zapata Espinoza, aka…
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…
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal authorities on Wednesday announced charges against 72 people in connection with an international network dedicated to the sexual abuse of children and the creation and dissemination of child pornography. Authorities said it was the largest prosecution of its kind in the U.S. involving a pedephillia bulletin board. The investigation, lead by…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The latest report on ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious shows that ATF officials in Mexico City were becoming increasingly alarmed and incensed when learning of the number of guns linked to the operation that were being found at violent crime scenes in Mexico. The report, released by Rep. Darrell Issa(R-Calif.) and…
