Epstein Secrets

e to curb controversial policing policies. The proposed spending bill for the 2021 fiscal year, which begins in October, would add $972.5 million to the Justice Department's coffers. Of those funds, $596.7 million would go toward police practice overhauls. The remaining funds would be used to boost the FBI's investigati

third letter "requesting documents about the Obama and Trump administration's overtures toward Ukraine." In a previous letter Wyden "claimed...that the State Department sent thousands of pages of documents to Republican chairmen for their investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter while i

to reduce violent gun crimes." DO3: Probe Of FBI's Handling Of Nassar Case Is Ongoing. The Orange County (CA) Register (7/7, Reid, 546K) reports, "The U.S. Department of Justice is continuing to investigate the Federal Bureau of Investigation's handling of sexual abuse allegations against former U.S. Olympic and USA Gymnast

to department's inspector general." According to the OCR, "Michael E. Horowitz, the inspector, in a letter to Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) stated that the Justice Department Office of the Inspector General's 22-month investigation 'of the allegations concerning the FBI's handling of the Nassar investigation is ongoing, and we

said schools "can reopen safely even as coronavirus cases spike, dialing up pressure on local officials to resume in-person learning." The AP (7/7, Binkley) reports DeVos "assailed plans by some local districts to offer in-person instruction only a few days a week and said schools must be `fully operat

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

es poring over evidence from recorded phone calls and a hacked 'Phone." US Finds Potential Fraud In Student Loan Repayment Programs. The AP (7/25, Binkley) reports, "Tens of thousands of federal student loan borrowers may be getting their monthly payments lowered by lying about their income and family

of his friend Roger Stone's criminal sentence is one of the most severe affronts to the rule of law during the Trump administration," but "a future Justice Department would be well within its rights to open a new investigation into Stone's activities." Stone's "behavior likely runs afoul of other federal laws," an

drug dilution scheme drew national headlines 19 years ago, is being released from prison seven years early." The Post adds, "In a letter last week, the U.S. Justice Department informed some of Courtney's victims and members of their families that Courtney will be moved to a halfway house this week and then to home confine

asn't on the tarmac to greet...Pence on Tuesday morning because he has tested positive for coronavirus, according to an email blast to employees of the state Department of Justice." Fox News (7/14, Phillips, 27.59M) notes on its website that Landry said in a statement, "Out of an overabundance of caution with the vice preside

ion leaders and students worldwide," and Reuters (7/14, Rosenberg) says it was "a stunning reversal of policy." Along similar lines, the AP (7/14, Binkley) reports the Administration faced "eight federal lawsuits and opposition from hundreds of universities," and the NBC News (7/14, 6.14M) website tha

g challenges to the federal government's lethal injection protocol. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit late Monday refused the Justice Department's request to stay the injunction. The Justice Department had appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court." The AP (7/13, Balsamo) reports that on Monday

American manufacturers," but he "could not achieve one of the industry's main goals: overturning a ban on sales to private foreign buyers enacted by the State Department to protect American troops in Afghanistan and elsewhere." The Times adds, "Then Mr. Williams joined the Trump administration." The Times adds, "As

rate is going to go up after the next week or two." Judge To Hear Arguments On Student Visa Limitations Suit Tuesday. EFTA00150583 The AP (7/13, Binkley) reports that "more than 200 universities are backing a legal challenge to the Trump administration's new restrictions on international students, ar

n the Capitol, announced Thursday that he opposes the establishment of an independent, bipartisan commission to investigate the deadly assault. ... `The Justice Department is currently conducting one of the largest federal criminal investigations in history and has already made hundreds of arrests. Congress has also be

l begin wearing body cameras. With that change, the US Park Police will become "one of the few federal police" organizations that use body cameras. The US Department of Justice, which has "more than 43,000 sworn agents in the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Mar

the line for vaccine supply for Americans." Public Health Experts Express New Concern Over Vaccination Gaps Across US. EFTA00149742 The AP (5/20, Binkley, Reeves, Seewer) reports that public health experts are drawing new attention to a new emerging vaccination pattern, which is that the highest vacci

3.68M) reports Trump has long "claimed that Flynn was the victim of rogue federal agents conducting a politically motivated investigation." A second Justice Department investigation "examining the origins of the Mueller probe is underway but has yielded no known indictments." Trump "said he is letting that investig

world 'should consider themselves on notice' that if they do business with Huawei, 'they are doing business with human-rights abusers:" Pompeo said the State Department would "impose visa restrictions on certain employees of Chinese technology companies like Huawei that provide material support to regimes engaging i

ing, especially when education is supposed to be an equalizer. DeVos Sued By 23 AGs Over Changes To Student Loan Forgiveness Program. The AP (7/15, Binkley) reports, "Democratic attorneys general in more than 20 states" sued Education Secretary DeVos on Wednesday, "seeking to repeal her overhaul of a st

the teenager from South Dakota." The Oregonian says "the FBI investigated the case as part of Project Safe Childhood, a national program started by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2006 to combat child sexual abuse and exploitation." Maine Woman Charged By FBI With Involvement In Massachusetts Drug Ring. EFTA00148292 The

ide than for self- defense in a police-free dystopia." Education Department Cancels Student Debt For Some Students With Disabilities. The AP (3/29, Binkley) reports the Education Department on Monday announced that it "is canceling student debt for more than 40,000 Americans who were previously granted