nts. Only the members of the Grand Jury, attorneys for the United States anda stenographer are permitted in the.Grand Jury room while you testify.. The U.S. Department of Justice encourages prosecutors to notify an individual in appropriate cases that he or she is a target of a grand jury investigation. Accordingly, you are he

1. Sevtion 102 The provision in subsection (e)(2)(B) authorizing the Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP) at the Department of State to interview victims should clarify that the Director is authorized to do so only with the consent of the Attorney General in any case where an ongoi

s the Attorney General to make grants to assist victims of severe forms of trafficking up to $2.5 million in 2008, increasing to $15 million in 2011. The Department of Justice already has authority to make grants for the provision of services for crime victims and does so at a level in excess of $250 million a year. Also, t

- 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

ive review somewhat comparable to those in E.U. member states. Federal law grants victims a right to seek review of prosecutors' decisions within the Department of Justice hierarchy, although it also explicitly bars judicial review of Justice Department decisions in this process. !!4 Although decision makers in an inter

justified underenforcement - are a key reason federal redundancy is important in this context. Given that police misconduct is an established part of the U.S. Justice Department's enforcement agenda, federal prosecutors should be a check on political judgments of local prosecutors. They also provide victims with a different age

Hong Kong, the FBI realized Snowden was a possible intelligence defector. It froze his credit and bank cards. It also notified the passport office in the State Department the legal attaches at the Hong Kong consulate. The legal attaches, who were actually FBI field agents posted in Hong Kong, located Snowden at the Mir

tions intelligence and the NSA fulfilled them. As the Cold War heated up in the 1960s, the NSA provided intelligence not only to the Pentagon but to the Department of State, Central Intelligence Agency, the Treasury Department, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the FBI. With a multi-billion dollar “black budget” hidden f

essed an interest in obtaining some form of amnesty from prosecution in America. Wizner was willing to attempt to explore making a possible deal with the Department of Justice, but it would not be an easy task, especially if Snowden had turned over NSA documents to a foreign power. Even to argue that Snowden was merely a N

A Resource Guide to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act By the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and the Enforcement Division of the USS. Securities and Exchange Commission HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022494 --- PAGE BREAK --- This guide is intended to p

comment pro- cedures, shall establish a procedure to provide responses to specific inquiries by issuers concerning conformance of their conduct with the Department of Justice’s present enforcement policy regarding the pre- ceding provisions of this section. The Attorney General shall, within 30 days after receiving such a re

oreign Corrupt Practices Act by a domestic concern and for which the Attorney General has issued. an opinion that such conduct is in conformity with the Department of Justice's present enforcement policy, is in compliance with the preced- ing provisions of this section. Such a presumption may be rebutted by a preponderance o

the Inspector General report he had read, the NSA had terminated Stellarwind almost a decade earlier. President Bush ended it after top officials of the Justice © Department insisted that he did not have the legal authority for the © domestic part of Stellarwind. Instead, he asked Congress to revise FISA to meet the objec

rnet, and whatever else he needed to survive there. If he did not cooperate, the FSB could also return him to the United States, where in the eyes of the © Department of Justice he had betrayed the United States by stealing ® secrets and taking them abroad. What recourse did Snowden have? In a word, the FSB held all the cards

intelligence targets for the NSA to pursue. As the Cold War heated up in the 1960s, the NSA provided intel- ligence not only to the Pentagon but to the Department of State, the | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.indd 199 ® 9/30/16 8:13AM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019687 --- PAGE BREAK --- 200 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS

ent 85-1 Entered on FLSD Docket 06/17/2011 Page 3 of 4 S3608 U.S. SENATE, Washington, DC, June 6, 2011. Hon. ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General; U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC. DEAR ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDER: I am writing about the Justice Department’s im- plementation of the Crime Victims’ Rights Act--an act

ne 6, 2011. Hon. ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General; U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC. DEAR ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDER: I am writing about the Justice Department’s im- plementation of the Crime Victims’ Rights Act--an act that I co-sponsored in 2004. These questions relate to an Office of Legal Counsel (“OLC’’?)

ess could not have been clearer in its direction that using ‘“‘best efforts’’ to en- force the CVRA was an obligation of “Colfficers and employees of the Department of Justice and other departments and agen- cies of the United States engaged in the de- tection, investigation, or prosecution of crime . .? 18 U.S.C. §8771(c)

agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. ws fag—F BIE-MH-108062- 21 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT 021643. --- PAGE BREAK --- U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation File No. 31E-MM-108062/ & 188B-MM-105207-D 25 August 2008 Mr.[ Federal Agent Dear Federal Agen{ | The Miami Divi

for the victims’ civil suits, in which he explained how the case against Epstein was minimized by the State Attorney’s Office, then bargained down by the U.S. Department of Justice, all in an atmosphere of hardball legal tactics and social pressures so intense that Reiter became estranged from several colleagues. At the time, Re

Fo.Whom ItMay Concern: ° i". ‘we iy _. This letter.constitutes .a request (“Request”) under the Freedom of. {nformation Act,.5 US.C. § 552 (FEOIA”). the Justice Deparmment’s implementing regulations Gneluding 28 C.F.R! § 16.1), the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a, and all other applicable regulations and other applicable pro

ter as agents of a foreign government is a partial solution.*’ And in late 2017, Russia’s RT registered as a foreign agent®® while in September 2018, the US Justice Department reportedly also ordered CGTN and Xinhua to register as agents of a foreign power.*! When it comes to independent Chinese-language media, the US gov

ment Has Ordered Key Chinese State Media Firms to Register as Foreign Agents.” Wall Street Journal. September 18, 2018. https://www.wsj.com /articles/justice-department-has-ordered-key-chinese-state-media-firms-to-register-as-foreign-agents -1537296756?mod=hp_listc_pos4. 60 Stubbs, Jack and Ginger Gibson. “Russia’s

dez-as-head-of-international -corporate-affairs-300627805.html. 22 Author’s analysis of OpenSecrets data. 23 “Exhibit A to Registration Statement.” US Department of Justice. August 9, 2017. https://www.fara.gov /docs/6452-Exhibit-AB-20170809-1.pdf. 24 “Client Profile: Summary, 2017.” Open Secrets. Accessed March 9, 2018

Program by management of AEIB and its parent company, AEB o Wachovia: In March 2010, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), FinCEN and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Wachovia Bank, N.A., had agreed to a Deferred Prosecution Agreement with a forfeiture of $110 million with the DOJ, a civil mone

e Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) e Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) e Treasury Executive Office for Asset Forfeiture (TEOAF) U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) e Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, Criminal Division (AFMLS) e Counterterrorism Section, Criminal Division (CTS) e National Drug

oney laundering and financial crimes. e Country Reports on Terrorism — An annual report, previously known as Patterns of Global Terrorism, issued by the Department of State that provides overviews of terrorist activity in countries in which acts of terrorism occurred, countries that are state sponsors of terrorism, and c

al Committee, which declined to comment. /Trump fundraiser Elliott Broidy sues Oatar alleging cyber smear campaign/ In recent weeks, prosecutors with the Justice Department's public integrity section - which examines possible political and government corruption - have sought documents related to Broidy's business dealings.

id Mr. Broidy or Ms. Rosenzweig, or anyone acting on their behalf, discuss Mr. Low's case with President Trump, any member of his staff, or anyone at the U.S. Department of Justice." The Times reported in April that Broidy had explored ways to force Chinese exile Guo Wengui to leave the United States. The billionaire businessman

es change over time in light of developments in the law governing foreign sovereign immunity. The Atkinson court also did not consider the opinion of the State Depart- ment, whose views in this area ordinarily receive "special attention," Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela v. Helmerich & Payne Int'l Drilling Co., 581 U. S.

also be expanded or restricted by a partic- ular organization's founding charter. B When the IOIA was enacted in 1945, courts looked to the views of the Department of State in deciding whether a given foreign government should be granted immunity from a particular suit. If the Department submitted a recommendation on imm

ns 71 C. Courts Recognize That Crime Victims Have CVRA Rights Before Charging .........ccccccccccccccccccccccesceessseesseesseesseeeseeessees 73 III. THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT’S UNPERSUASIVE POSITION .........0....00000- 75 A. OLC’s Misreading of the CVRA’s Definition of “Victim” ........ 76 B. OLC’s Distortion of the CVRA’s

hat potential charges will never be filed. The issue of pre-charging rights has most prominently surfaced in connection with federal cases. In 2010, the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) weighed in on the issue and released a legal opinion arguing that victims of federal crimes have no CVRA rights during

ely made and what papertrail is there about that decision- making,” Rubio said. “Obviously, newspaper reporting is important but so is whatever facts the Justice Depart- ment has in its possession.” Sen. Rick Scott, Rubio's fellow Republican, had a similar view, along with Miami Republican Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart. Both sai

ng Rep. Donna Shalala. Shalala was part of a group of Democrats who signed on to a letter last week demanding the passage of a bill that would allow the Department of Justice's Inspector General to re- view the conduct of attomeys within Justice, a power it does not currently have. Acosta was responsible for ne- gotiating Ep

hat potential charges will never be filed. The issue of pre-charging rights has most prominently surfaced in connection with federal cases. In 2010, the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) weighed in on the issue and released a legal opinion arguing that victims of federal crimes have no CVRA rights during

, at 3 (S.D. Fla. June 19, 2013). DAVID SCHOEN HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017614 --- PAGE BREAK --- Page 12 of 31 104 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 59, *75 II. The Justice Department's Unpersuasive Position Despite the CVRA's broad remedial purposes, its expansive language referring to investigations, and the unanimous case law ext

Sen. Kyl) ("We authorized an appropriation of to assure ... that moneys would be made available to enhance the victim notification system, managed by the Department of Justice's Office for Victims of Crime, and the resources additionally to develop state-of-the-art systems for notifying crime victims of important states of de

tim's rights might be violated before charges are filed. In particular, the victim might not receive notice of their rights before charges are filed. The Justice Department's own guidelines provide that a victim must receive notice of rights "at the earliest opportunity after detection of a crime at which it may be done wi

“textualist” judges. McGahn had long dreamed himself of becoming a federal judge him- self, but given the no-man’-land he occupied between Trump and the Justice Department—not to mention Trump’s sometimes daily attacks or the DOJ’s independence, which McGahn had to accept or condone—he knew his future as a jurist was de

--- 40 MICHAEL WOLFF the presidency. That's what it looked like on paper. But the opposite was true, too. There was a permanent-government class in the Justice Depart- ment that believed an election ought to have no role at all in how the DOJ conducted itself. The department was outside politics and ought to be as bl

propriate? 5. Have you ever met Ghislaine Maxwell in the presence of Jeffrey Epstein or at one of his properties? 6. Did you send correspondence to the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. (or elsewhere) attacking the credibility of these 40 girls? 7. According to testimony in court cases, when Jeffrey Epstein was a

ract, IJS! will HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015018 --- PAGE BREAK --- provide technical assistance, training, logistics and infrastructure services to support the Department of State's efforts to strengthen criminal justice systems in select partner countries.")... yet, just months shy of contract end, the NY Times reported: "Task

E.W. and a federal court action on behalf of Jane Doe. All of the cases were filed in the summer of 2008, 3. My clients received correspondence from the U.S. Department of Justice regarding their rights as victims of Epstein’s federal sex offenses. (True and accurate copies of the letters are attached to Statement of Undisputed

igna gent i submit this document and affirm that the facts stated herein are true. 1 am aware that any false information submitted in a document to the Department of State constitutes a third degree felony as provided for in s.817.155, F.S. IZ TAG Required Signature of Incorporator Date GIUFFRE001064 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_