The Latest Breaking News from DOJ

NARA is withholding details on the Mar-a-Lago search to protect DOJ's "ongoing work"

"NARA is preserving all records related to this matter," the head of the agency said.

Axios · Sep 23, 2022

What's up with the DOJ election rule?

There's no law that politicians can't be prosecuted before an election. It's an unwritten rule, not always honored

Salon · Sep 23, 2022

After LA Times investigation, law passed to force California to clear pot convictions faster

LOS ANGELES — California has new deadlines to dismiss and seal many cannabis convictions under a law signed this week by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Los Angeles Times · Sep 22, 2022

Appeals court allows review of Mar-a-Lago classified documents - Roll Call

A federal appellate court Wednesday allowed the Justice Department to use classified documents seized in a search of Donald Trump’s Florida club last month.

Roll Call · Sep 21, 2022

Chances of Trump indictment "skyrocket"

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell argues Trump will almost certainly face federal prosecution

Salon · Sep 21, 2022

Writer E. Jean Carroll to sue Trump under NY Adult Survivors Act

NEW YORK — A writer who says former President Donald Trump raped her inside a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1994 plans to sue him under New York’s Adult Survivors Act.

Tribune News Service · Sep 21, 2022

Trump special master pick "backfired"

“You can’t have your cake and eat it,” Raymond Dearie told Trump lawyers after they refused to provide evidence

Salon · Sep 21, 2022

Donald Trump’s arguments greeted with skepticism by special master

WASHINGTON: The special master requested by Donald Trump to review thousands of documents the FBI seized from his Mar-a-Lago home expressed skepticism about some of the former president’s arguments.

The Times of India · Sep 21, 2022

DOJ charges 47 with stealing $250 million from a pandemic food program for kids

The defendants allegedly carried out a plot to steal $250 million from a nutrition program meant to serve needy children in Minnesota. Officials called it a "brazen scheme of staggering proportions."

WEKU · Sep 20, 2022

Liz Truss gives 'full support' to chief of staff interviewed as witness by FBI in probe

Downing Street said the Prime Minister was 100% behind her chief of staff Mark Fullbrook after it emerged he had been interviewed by the FBI as a witness to an alleged criminal plot to bribe an American politician and influence a US election

Daily Mirror · Sep 20, 2022