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w I am representing my workforce." She added, "I didn't think anything of it at the time," saying she was "unaware of the nature of the posts until ProPublica published a report on July 1," which showed posts contain "caustic remarks about the deaths of migrants, sexually explicit images and xenophobic co

committee funded by mega-donor Greg Lindberg, and specifically mentioned in Lindberg's federal bribery indictment, forfeited more than $475,000 to the U.S. Department of Justice shortly after the indictment was filed, new campaign finance records show." According to WRAL- TV, "N.C. Growth and Prosperity is a PAC that Lindber

panies." DO) Pressing States To Support T-Mobile/Sprint Merger. The Wall Street Journal (7/25, FitzGerald, Subscription Publication, 7.57M) reports the Justice Department is urging state officials to back a planned settlement that would allow T-Mobile and Sprint to combine by selling assets to Dish Network. The talks

hen the two spoke by phone on Wednesday, Pompeo assured Ghani that the US "remains committed to a conditions-based drawdown of troops, according to the State Department." Asked on Fox News Special Report (7/25, 1.53M) if he got any pushback after the President said he could wipe Afghanistan off the face of the Eart

and Border Protection Custody Act', possible consideration of 'H.R. 2203, the Homeland Security Improvement Act', and consideration of 'H.R. 3352 - Department of State Authorization Act of 201% as amended, 'H.R. 434 - Emancipation National Historic Trail Study Act', 'H.R. 759 - Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama-Cou

t Director Patel Waived His Polygraph Exam EFTA01655530 The Washington Examiner (11/15, LaChance) reported that Deputy Director Bongino rejected a ProPublica (11/14, Turton, Bing) report claiming Director Patel had waived his required FBI polygraph examination, calling the allegation "a complete fabricat

en accused of sexual misconduct by Epstein's victims, and assessed that Trump's demand — and AG Bondi's swift compliance — marked another example of the Justice Department's erosion of independence. The article noted that Trump defended his actions by telling reporters, "I'm the chief law enforcement officer of the coun

rticle noted that both pardons came amid disputes over how far Trump's Jan. 6 clemency extends, and that a Trump-appointed judge criticized shifting Justice Department positions regarding whether the president's earlier pardons covered Wilson's firearms offense. Additional reporting was provided by CNN (11/15, Mahe

a suspect, and is now in custody in Chicago. In April 2025, detectives learned from INTERPOL that Barklow traveled from Ecuador to Peru, CPD said. "The U.S. Department of Justice, the DOJ's Office of International Affairs, the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service, the U.S. State Department, the Regional Security Office at the U.S.

o events scheduled. Cabinet Members EFTA01655542 . Secretary of State Rubio meets with Republic of Cyprus Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos at the Department of State at 11:15 AM. Visitors . No events scheduled. General Events . The Eurofile Live Podcast: is a New Era Emerging for the Euro? — Monday, November

y, you know that. If you don't, you're missing out. This could also make a great holiday gift. MORE ON THE IMMIGRATION WARS: -- Video obtained by ProPublica shows how the Border Patrol held a sick teen in a concrete cell without proper medical attention and did not discover his body until his cellmate a

where Pomoeo was Page 17888 EFTA00047399 staying, situated in a small events space on the second floor. Pompeo slipped into the meeting, without the State Department alerting the press traveling with him about where he was headed or who he was going to meet. ... The Hamilton Society is a group of right-leaning

a lot of work around sex and drug trafficking. "We can maintain those components while also moving the [Enforcement and Removal] section of ICE to the Department of Justice where we have more oversight and more accountability of those agencies," Hackett explained. -- For now, Biden is polling well among Latinos, someth

r information that leads to Yakubets's capture and that it's the largest such money offering yet for a cyber criminal. Brian Benczkowski, who heads the Justice Department's criminal division, said Yakubets was the 'leader of a criminal cyber gang' and had been involved in cyber crime for the past decade on an 'unimagin

ready, you know that. If you don't, you're missing out. This could also make a great holiday gift. MORE ON THE IMMIGRATION WARS: Video obtained by ProPublica shows how the Border Patrol held a sick teen in a concrete cell without proper medical attention and did not discover his body until his cellmate a

in Mexico and Mexico's financial sector, if more comprehensive anti- money laundering policies are applied. ... In a news release about the meeting, the Justice Department did not mention the terrorism designation. ... Still, many in Mexico EFTA00047432 worry about a further emboldening of security forces in the figh

formation that leads to Yakubets's capture and that it's the largest such money offering yet for a cyber criminal. Brian Benczkowski, who heads the Justice Department's criminal division, said Yakubets was the 'leader of a criminal cyber gang' and had been involved in cyber crime for the past decade on an 'unimagina

ying to come to terms with=President Trump's proposal to increase the US military budget by an additional $54 billion I ran across a 2015 article in ProPublica — We Blew $17 Billion in Afghanistan. How Would You Have Spent It? —=/b> And boy did it blow my mind. It is estimated that the wars in Afghanistan a

ontrary to popular=assumptions, is not unscrupulous contractors. Follow the long trail of waste and you'll=be standing at the doors of the military, the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development. It's their bad decisions, bad purchases =nd bad programs that are consistently to blame. ProPubl

s lone heir, brother Mark Epstein. Parnas How Parnas and Fruman's Dodgy Donation Was Uncovered by Two People Using Google Translate EFTA00095939 ProPublica By Ilya Marritz 2/5/2020 Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman have attained notoriety for their parts in the Ukraine mess. They're both Soviet-born U.S. ci

ch as Madoff to be released. At least 124 people were granted compassionate release in 2019, the first full year of the First Step Act, according to the Justice Department, compared with 34 in all of 2018. Punishment versus mercy Among those to benefit from the law was Bernard Ebbers, the former chief executive of Wor

p to pardon disgraced service members charged in war crimes cases, has also been tapped by for-profit colleges to defend a lucrative loophole. From ProPublica: "Under the law, for- profit colleges can't receive more than 90% of their revenue from federal education funds. The logic, according to the staffer

money. Lawmakers also heard last night from Hale, the undersecretary of state for political affairs. Hale, the third-highest- ranking official at the State Department, shed more light on the dismissal of Marie Yovanovitch as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine: "'I believe she should have been able to stay at the post and

p to pardon disgraced service members charged in war crimes cases, has also been tapped by for-profit colleges to defend a lucrative loophole. From ProPublica: "Under the law, for-profit colleges can't receive more than 90% of their revenue from federal education funds. The logic, according to the staffer

money. Lawmakers also heard last night from Hale, the undersecretary of state for political affairs. Hale, the third-highest-ranking official at the State Department, shed more light on the dismissal of Marie Yovanovitch as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine: "'I believe she should have been able to stay at the post and

> See, e.g., id. at 17-19 (providing examples of the Justice Department's prosecution of state and local officials). 56 Td

seek review of prosecutors' decisions within the Department of Justice hierarchy, although it also explicitly bars judic

- victims - to prosecute alleged criminal wrongdoing. Redundant charging authority takes other forms as well. In large hierarchical agencies such as the U.S. Department of Justice, internal administrative review of front-line prosecutors’ charging or declination decisions by higher-ups creates a version of redundant enforcement

ent agents; nine were convicted, nineteen entered guilty pleas, and four were acquitted."); Ryan Gabrielson et al., Deadly Force, in Black and White, ProPublica (Oct. 10, 2014), https://www.propublica.org/article/deadly-force-in-black-and-white ("Analysis of killings by police shows outsize risk for young bla

est rate manipulation to prosecutors working from the Justice Department’s headquarters. Like Morgenthau, Bharara was a pro

tical corruption. But his treatment of the Wall Street executives involved in the financial meltdown was far less confrontational. by Jesse Eisinger ProPublica, March 12, 2017, 6:22 p.m. 1 Comment Print Print search Follow ProPublica reet Bharara, then U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, a

Bharara’s office ceded post- financial crisis investigations into foreign exchange and global interest rate manipulation to prosecutors working from the Justice Department’s headquarters. Like Morgenthau, Bharara was a prominent figure in the New York landscape, given to well-orchestrated press conferences and memorable