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The nation's spy court approved a record number of requests to search or eavesdrop on suspected terrorists and spies last year, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
Federal authorities Tuesday filed new civil injunctions against what one official called "snake oil salesmen" who promote allegedly fraudulent income tax evasion schemes.
The Justice Department has declassified a 2003 legal memo that said U.S. criminal laws and international treaties did not apply in the military treatment and interrogations of "enemy combatants" taken from the battlefield and held outside the United States.
Everything suffers -- patient care, medicine, even other doctors -- when doctors become company "consultants"
The Justice Department Tuesday said its prosecutors are assisting the State Department Inspector General in the investigation into the breaching of passport files of the three leading presidential candidates by State Department contractors.
Justice Department antitrust lawyers Monday approved the proposed merger of rivals XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio, a $5 billion deal that will create a giant in a growing industry that now has more than 14 million subscribers.
The U.S. Justice Department approved the merger between satellite radio companies Sirius and XM Monday, more than a year after the two companies first announced their deal.
The Justice Department approved Sirius Satellite Radio's $5 billion buyout of rival XM Satellite Radio on Monday, saying the deal was unlikely to hurt competition or consumers
On the eve of a Capitol Hill hearing into a lucrative deal for former Attorney General John Ashcroft, the Justice Department has tightened controls over U.S. attorneys and other officials who arrange deals that let firms avoid prosecution by accepting corporate monitors and making restitution to victims.
Fourteen Americans are in custody as part of a global crackdown on a well-organized child porn ring that used sophisticated encryption technology, the FBI and Justice Department announced Tuesday.
The nation's spy court approved a record number of requests to search or eavesdrop on suspected terrorists and spies last year, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
Federal authorities Tuesday filed new civil injunctions against what one official called "snake oil salesmen" who promote allegedly fraudulent income tax evasion schemes.
The Justice Department has declassified a 2003 legal memo that said U.S. criminal laws and international treaties did not apply in the military treatment and interrogations of "enemy combatants" taken from the battlefield and held outside the United States.
Everything suffers -- patient care, medicine, even other doctors -- when doctors become company "consultants"
The Justice Department Tuesday said its prosecutors are assisting the State Department Inspector General in the investigation into the breaching of passport files of the three leading presidential candidates by State Department contractors.
Justice Department antitrust lawyers Monday approved the proposed merger of rivals XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio, a $5 billion deal that will create a giant in a growing industry that now has more than 14 million subscribers.
The U.S. Justice Department approved the merger between satellite radio companies Sirius and XM Monday, more than a year after the two companies first announced their deal.
The Justice Department approved Sirius Satellite Radio's $5 billion buyout of rival XM Satellite Radio on Monday, saying the deal was unlikely to hurt competition or consumers
On the eve of a Capitol Hill hearing into a lucrative deal for former Attorney General John Ashcroft, the Justice Department has tightened controls over U.S. attorneys and other officials who arrange deals that let firms avoid prosecution by accepting corporate monitors and making restitution to victims.
Fourteen Americans are in custody as part of a global crackdown on a well-organized child porn ring that used sophisticated encryption technology, the FBI and Justice Department announced Tuesday.
At least four federal inmates convicted on crack cocaine charges were freed Monday, a result of federal efforts to close the gap between sentences doled out for crack and for its purer, powder counterpart.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's request to the Justice Department may trigger lasting consequences from both legal and political perspectives.
The stalled merger between satellite radio duo XM and Sirius has suddenly lurched into the unknown as Wall Street continues to wait for a verdict from regulators.
The Justice Department said Friday it is investigating whether its attorneys properly authorized and reviewed the use of waterboarding by CIA investigators.
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The former head of the Central Intelligence Agency's covert service whom sources say ordered the destruction of videotapes has requested immunity before testifying on Capitol Hill next week, a congressional source familiar with the negotiations told CNN.
A man described as one of U.S.'s most prolific senders of spam e-mail was indicted by a federal grand jury over a fraud scheme that manipulated Chinese stock prices, the Justice Department said Thursday.
The ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee says the panel will move forward with a probe into the destruction of CIA videotapes of detainee interrogations, despite a Justice Department request that congressional inquiries be suspended.
The Bush administration wants a federal court and congressional committees not to pursue investigations into the destruction of videotapes showing CIA interrogations of two al Qaeda suspects.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Friday rejected lawmakers' demands for information as the Justice Department investigates the destruction of tapes showing CIA interrogations of two al Qaeda suspects.
Thousands of demonstrators encircled Justice Department headquarters in the nation's capital Friday to demand the government crack down harder on hate crimes.
The Bush administration has apparently changed policy and cleared the way for the Justice Department to restart an investigation into the government's no-warrant electronic surveillance program, a department official told Congress on Tuesday.
Newly sworn-in Attorney General Michael Mukasey tapped U.S. District Judge Mark Filip of Chicago on Thursday to be his deputy
The U.S. Sentencing Commission is considering retroactive changes that could mean shortened sentences for nearly 20,000 federal prisoners convicted of crack cocaine related offenses.
Attorney General-nominee Michael Mukasey made it clear to senators Wednesday he would be independent from the White House and would make legal decisions based "on facts and law, not by interests and motives."
President Bush's nominee for attorney general will face tough questioning on a range of hot-button issues -- including no-warrant surveillance and torture policy -- during confirmation hearings Wednesday.
The illegal export of U.S. military technology to Iran and China poses a growing threat, the Justice Department said Thursday as it announced plans to combat the practice.
The White House and Justice Department on Thursday strongly denied a published report that a secret Justice Department opinion in 2005 allowed the torture of terror detainees, months after the government publicly renounced it.
Hungry attendees at Justice Department conferences have been enjoying millions of dollars in meatballs and other goodies courtesy of U.S. taxpayers, according to an inspector general's report released Friday.
The Justice Department on Thursday said Internet service providers should be allowed to charge a fee for priority Web traffic.
Twenty known or suspected terrorists were not correctly listed on the government's consolidated watch list, preventing their records from being available to the nation's front-line screening agents, according to a U.S. Justice Department report.
The next attorney general must carry enough stature to push White House anti-terrorism policies, combined with the charm and credibility to win over congressional Democrats, a former Justice Department official said.
The Justice Department's top civil rights enforcer resigned Thursday following more than a year of criticism that his office filled its ranks with conservative loyalists instead of experienced attorneys.
The Justice Department is giving Britain's largest airline a break, even as it faces one the largest antitrust fines in years.
Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts confirmed on Monday that it received a request for documents from the Department of Justice on whether it engaged in actions that violated antitrust laws.
American Express Co. agreed to pay $65 million for failing to detect drug-related money transactions laundered through a subsidiary over several years, U.S. authorities said Monday.
A Justice Department official has "clarified" Senate testimony regarding a Missouri voter-fraud case, saying the decision to seek voter registration fraud indictments shortly before an election was his and not that of career staff.
Congressional investigators are looking into new allegations a top official at the Justice Department illegally hired career lawyers based on their political affiliations.
Stepping up pressure on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena Tuesday demanding additional Justice Department documents relating to the firing of eight U.S. attorneys.
The lawyer for a Justice Department official who has invoked the Fifth Amendment over the firings assailed congressional criticism of her decision Wednesday, comparing it to the abuses of former Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
A federal watchdog agency is investigating whether one of the U.S. attorneys fired in a Justice Department shakeup was punished for missing work to serve in the Navy Reserve, the ex-prosecutor said Wednesday.
A Justice Department official will refuse to answer questions during a Senate committee hearing on the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, citing her Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate herself, her lawyer said Monday.
A Justice Department official will refuse to answer questions during a Senate committee hearing on the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, citing her Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate herself, her lawyer said Monday.
A 16-day gap in e-mail records between the Justice Department and the White House concerning the firing of U.S. attorneys last year has attracted the attention of congressional investigators.
One of eight U.S. attorneys fired in a controversial Justice Department shakeup said Tuesday that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should rethink the dismissals, and two others said apologies were due.
A recently canned former U.S. attorney, who has promised to name two lawmakers he says pressured him to build cases against Democrats, is scheduled to testify Tuesday before congressional committees.
As polls began to close in the East, Justice Department officials said voter complaints to federal officials had been "low" on Tuesday.
The Justice Department Monday announced it has dispatched an army of election observers and monitors across the country to polling places where it sees a potential for discrimination or other voting rights violations.
The Justice Department plans to dispatch more than 800 federal observers and monitors to 20 states to protect voting rights in potentially troubled polling locations, officials announced Tuesday.
Bankruptcy fraud charges have been filed against 78 people in a federal operation aimed at protecting the integrity of the nation's bankruptcy system, the Justice Department and FBI announced Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler ruled Thursday that the tobacco industry engaged in a decades-long racketeering enterprise that conspired to hide the dangers of smoking.
During a meeting last week with some of the nation's leading Internet companies, the attorney general and the FBI director asked that they keep a variety of customer information and other data for two years, much longer than they do currently, the Justice Department confirmed Tuesday.
The attorney general and the FBI director have asked the nation's leading Internet service companies to keep a variety of customer information and other data for two years, much longer than the companies do now, the Justice Department confirmed Tuesday.
The Justice Department told a federal court Tuesday that Rep. William Jefferson's demand for the return of documents seized from his office conflict with "the bedrock principle that the laws of this country allow no place or employment as a sanctuary for crime."
At least 565 individuals have been arrested on allegations they operated phony sweepstakes and lottery contests and a variety of other mass marketing fraud schemes in the United States and four other countries, Justice Department officials announced Tuesday.
An estimated 3.6 million households, or about 3 percent of all households in the country, have been victims of identity theft, according to the Justice Department.
An Internet chat room that streamed video of live child molestations has been shut down and 27 people have been charged with online child pornography offenses, federal authorities said Wednesday.
The Justice Department on Friday announced a 65-count indictment against 11 environmental activists accused of ecoterrorism attacks in five states.
The Justice Department has issued a detailed legal justification for President Bush's decision to order the National Security Agency's controversial domestic surveillance program.
The Justice Department has opened an investigation into leaks to the media about the National Security Agency's classified domestic surveillance program.
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The Justice Department appealed Monday to the Supreme Court a lower court ruling that prevents the government from seeking up to $280 billion in tobacco industry profits from an alleged conspiracy to hide the dangers of smoking.
Civil liberties groups will release a report Monday that accuses the Justice Department of violating individual rights under material witness statutes.
Two civil liberties groups will release a report Monday claiming the Justice Department has abused its power under the material witness statute and violated many of the the detainees' rights.
The U.S. government has spent four years and more than $135 million building a case in federal court that cigarette makers profited over the course of a half-century by lying to the American public about the dangers of smoking and racking up generations of addicts in the process.
The nation's largest movie theater chain has reached an agreement with civil rights officials that requires its theaters to provide wheelchair-bound customers with seats comparable to those other customers have in thousands of theaters nationwide.
State and federal prosecutors are investigating 150 cases of alleged pricing fraud by some of the world's largest drug makers, according to a published report.
Most real estate brokers charge sellers the same commissions that were being charged in the Eisenhower era. Oh, they'll tell you their rates are negotiable, but getting them to actually negotiate i...
Medco Health Solutions Inc. has refused to comply with a federal subpoena from the Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General until the agency agrees not to share information with another federal agency that has sued the company, according to a news report.
In a 2-to-1 ruling, a U.S. federal appeals court panel in Washington Friday rejected the federal government's lawsuit seeking as much as $280 billion in past earnings from tobacco companies that allegedly engaged in a criminal enterprise to cover up smoking dangers.
The Justice Department is expected to announce Thursday where it plans to send about 1,000 federal election monitors charged with protecting the voting rights of citizens in the November 2 balloting.
Federal agents armed with search warrants conducted raids in three states Wednesday as part of a nationwide crackdown on the theft of copyrighted materials through the Internet, the Justice Department announced.
The House Government Reform Committee launched an investigation Wednesday into reports that former Clinton administration aide Samuel "Sandy" Berger removed classified documents from the National Archives while reviewing materials for the 9/11 commission.
Relatives of passengers and crew aboard the four airliners hijacked on September 11, 2001, heard tapes Friday of calls from the doomed planes and said later that they were moved by heroic efforts on all the flights.
The Justice Department has abandoned its controversial effort to obtain abortion records, a move government lawyers said was designed to speed a court decision on the constitutionality of a law banning certain late-term abortions.
The top federal prosecutor in New York will lead an investigation into whether computer files of Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats were accessed improperly, the panel's leading Democrat said Monday.
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A federal appeals court Friday upheld a lower court decision that blocks the government from obtaining abortion records from a Chicago hospital.
The Supreme Court Monday allowed the government to keep secret information about hundreds of people rounded up under suspicion of terrorism in the months following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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After a somnolent decade, the antitrust brigade is back with a vengeance -- as airlines, Ivy League universities, Arizona dentists, and Salomon Brothers, all of whom have been investigated by the J...
The government keeps looking for ways to reduce the burden of the $500 billion thrift bailout. Claiming that Drexel Burnham Lambert bilked 41 savings and loans through fraudulent junk bond sales, f...
Confession: As a principled partisan of free-market economics, your servant found himself rather hoping for bad news the minute the Prexy started jawboning on gasoline prices. Why did Bush do it? W...
Based on knowledge and belief and a certain amount of off-the-record interviewing, we would aver that the Bush Administration is less ecstatic about the new hate-crimes law than it pretends to be. ...
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