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Company Buying Trump's Social Media App Faces Subpoenas Over Deal
The SEC is investigating whether Digital World and Trump Media held substantial discussions before the special-purpose acquisition company went public last year, in violation of its SPAC status
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Former DOJ Officials Testify Trump Wanted to Seize Voting Machines
Former Department of Justice officials Jeffrey Rosen and Richard Donoghue testified before a House committee Thursday that then- President Donald Trump wanted the DOJ to seize voting machines.
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Trump Was ‘Agitated,' ‘Adamant' During Calls with DOJ Over Election Claims: Donoghue
Former Attorney General Richard Donoghue testified Thursday before the House select committee, providing meeting notes with direct quotes from former President Donald Trump on his scheme to overturn the 2020 election. “Just say the election was corrupt, and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.”
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Kinzinger Lays Out Case Against Trump's DOJ Election Scheme
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., spoke Thursday at a hearing on the U.S. Capitol Riot to detail former President Donald Trump’s efforts to use the Department of Justice to overthrow the results of the 2020 election. “Their only hope would be a last-ditch scheme to prevent Congress from certifying the win, thus throwing the entire system into constitutional chaos.”
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Feds Search Home of Ex-DOJ Official Trump Wanted to Install to Help With Election Scheme
Federal law enforcement investigators were at the Virginia home of Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official who then-President Donald Trump sought to install as attorney general after leaders at the agency refused to go along with Trump’s bogus election fraud claims.
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DOJ Settles Lawsuit With Facebook Over Allegedly Discriminatory Housing Advertising
The DOJ claimed that Meta targeted users with housing ads based on algorithms that relied partly on characteristics protected under the Fair Housing Act.
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Jan. 6 Panel Says It's Cooperating With DOJ Request for Interview Transcripts
The House committee investigating the Capitol riot said Friday it’s cooperating with a Justice Department request to share transcripts of their witness interviews. The committee is “engaged in a cooperative process to address the needs of the Department of Justice. We are not inclined to share the details of that publicly,” the panel said in a statement. “We believe accountability is...
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Attorney General Names Team Reviewing Police Response to Uvalde School Shooting
The Justice Department on Wednesday is releasing new details in its review of the law enforcement response to the deadly mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.
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DOJ Moves to Seize 2 Planes Worth More Than $400 Million From Russian Oligarch Roman Abramovich
The planned seizure of jets belonging to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich is the latest U.S. government response to the invasion of Ukraine.
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US Justice Department Will Conduct Review of Police Response to Uvalde School Shooting
The Justice Department said on Sunday that it will review the law enforcement response to the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 students and two teachers dead. The review is being conducted at the request of Uvalde’s mayor, according to officials
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DOJ Again Declines to Charge Former FBI Agents in Nassar Case After New Review
Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics told FBI agents in 2015 that three gymnasts said they were assaulted by Larry Nassar. But the FBI did not open a formal investigation or inform federal or state authorities in Michigan, according to the inspector general’s report.
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Justice Dept Files a Challenge to Alabama Transgender Law
The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday challenged an Alabama law making it a felony for doctors to treat transgender people under age 19 with puberty-blockers and hormones to help affirm their new gender identity.
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DOJ Charges 3 Russians With Running ‘Foreign Influence and Disinformation Network' in U.S.
The three Russians worked to undermine the U.S. and “promote Russia’s illicit actions designed to destroy the sovereignty of Ukraine,” an indictment alleged.
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Ex-Yale Employee Admits to Stealing $40 Million in Electronics for Her Own Luxurious Lifestyle
A former employee at Yale University allegedly stole $40 million worth of electronics from the university to resell for personal expenses including expensive cars, real estate and travel.
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China Targeted U.S. Olympian Alysa Liu, Father in Alleged Spying Operation
U.S. Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu and her father Arthur Liu – a former political refugee – were targeted in a spying operation ahead of the Beijing Olympics that the Justice Department alleges was ordered by the Chinese government, the elder Liu said
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Chinese Operatives Accused of Spying on and Trying to Intimidate Critics in US
Among the targets, law enforcement officials said, was Arthur Liu, a lawyer and activist in the San Francisco Bay area and the father of Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu.
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Russian Oligarch's American TV Producer Charged With Violating Crimea-Related Sanctions
U.S. prosecutors say a former CNBC and Fox News employee has been arrested in London for his work as a television producer for a Russian media baron tied to aggression in Ukraine
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3 Men Plead Guilty in White Supremacist Terror Plot to Disrupt Power Grid, Trigger Race War
Three men who plotted to attack electricity substations in a white supremacist bid to sow national unrest pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorism.
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Alleged Crypto Launderer Goes Viral After People Discover Her Rap Videos
Heather Morgan’s social media accounts have become as much of a spectacle as her alleged heist.
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Jan. 6 Panel Has Spoken to Former AG Bill Barr, Chairman Bennie Thompson Says
The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 riot has spoken to former Attorney General William Barr, committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. said Sunday.