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

estigation of retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, including more notes taken by fired special agent Peter Strzok." Acting US Attorney in Washington, DC Michael Sherwin "said Tuesday that the documents handed over to Flynn's defense team included handwritten notes from Strzok taken at a meeting on Jan. 25, 2017; no

ye toward violence against women, the White House said." EFTA00150600 The Los Angeles Times (3/30, Megerian, 3.37M) reports under the initiative, "the Justice Department will track reports of anti-Asian hate crimes and expand its outreach to community organizations," while the FBI will "hold training sessions for sta

News (3/30, Hicks, 1.16M) reports Lee Mouat, 43, "pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal hate crime for attacking an African American teen last summer, the U.S. Department of Justice said." Special Agent in Charge Timothy Waters of the FBI's Detroit Division said, "Mouat's hateful and violent conduct, motivated by racial intolera

ng at Beijing directly." The AP adds White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki "said the Biden administration was still reviewing the WHO report," while the State Department "in what it called a joint statement by 14 countries...said they were calling for `momentum' for a second- phase look by experts and pointed to the

rview. Former federal prosecutor Ankush Khardori, in an op-ed for USA Today (3/30, 12.7M), argues that former Acting US Attorney for Washington, DC Michael Sherwin was right to discuss the Capitol insurrection in an interview on "60 Minutes." Everything "Sherwin said was already alleged in public documents or

particularly notable given" his predecessors under former President Trump, Rex Tillerson "was confirmed 55 to 43," and Mike Pompeo "took the helm of the State Department on a vote of 57 to 42." USA Today notes Senate Minority Leader McConnell was among the Republicans to vote for Blinken, whereas Sen. Rand Paul (R-K

ports that on Tuesday, President Biden "rolled out an additional slate of executive actions to address racial equity." Politico says Biden "directed the Department of Justice to not renew contracts with private prison operators and signed a presidential memorandum acknowledging the role the federal government has played i

al authorities who expect to bring sedition charges against some of those linked to the insurrection." The US Attorney for the District of Columbia Michael Sherwin said prosecutors "are working on" sedition cases, "adding that officials expected the investigations to bear fruit very soon.' Sherwin said numbers