Justice department staff, the minister and his deputy, as well as judges have been clocking up frequent-flyer miles and hotel stays at taxpayers' expense.
While the Justice Department did not award any direct grants to ACORN between 2002 and 2009, it did fund one group that funneled money to the controversial advocacy group, an inspector general reported Friday in response to a congressional inquiry.
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The Justice Department's chief of criminal enforcement reached outside the government ranks Thursday to hire a New York corporate defense lawyer to lead a section tasked with investigating and prosecuting white-collar-crime cases, a key role as the Obama administration ramps up its effort to combat financial fraud.
Mr. Miller Jr. was a Justice Department lawyer in the 1960s who relentlessly pursued James R. Hoffa. Later he helped negotiate the unconditional pardon of former President Richard M. Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal.
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday charged 26 people in nine states with stealing tens of millions of dollars from a Federal Communications Commission program designed to help the deaf communicate through the telephone system.
The Justice Department gave more than $77 million in stimulus funds this year to 200 police agencies because of their locations rather than economic or crime-fighting needs, department records show.
JONESBORO — A Lake City woman said Sunday she would be “tickled to death” to see a Sharp County land developer face justice in the United States. Pat Mann of Lake City said she and her husband, Billy, were defrauded by Wayne Watkins in a land deal involving the Spring River Beach Club in Hardy.
The government would seek the extradition of Sivarak Chutipong, the Thai engineer working at Cambodia Air Traffic Services who is accused of spying, to serve out his punishment in Thailand if the Cambodian court finds him guilty, Justice Minister Pirapan Salirathavibhaga said on Monday.
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