A federal magistrate judge on Monday dismissed a criminal complaint charging two former senior FBI counterintelligence officials with lying to Congress about their roles in the bureau’s Hunter Biden investigation, saying the politically charged case lacked evidence and appeared to be timed with the midterm election. In a scathing, hour-long oral ruling, Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui rebuked…
Washington — The Justice Department has charged two former FBI officials with lying to Congress over questions about Hunter Biden’s laptop, according to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro. She said in a post on X that the two former senior FBI officials, Nikki Floris, 46, and Bradley Benavides, 56, were…
The Justice Department’s inspector general has declined to investigate allegations of misconduct against the prosecutors who brought an indictment against Olympian David Hearn that falsely accused him of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool. In an Oct. 21 letter seen by CBS News, lawyers for Hearn revealed that DOJ’s Inspector General Don Berthiaume determined the allegations fell…
Multiple relatives of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar received grand jury subpoenas, as part of the ongoing criminal investigation into her family’s history for evidence of possible fraud and false statements in their immigration paperwork, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. The subpoenas were issued on Friday, just days before Omar’s home in Washington,…
Attorneys for Olympic canoeist David Hearn asked the internal watchdogs at the Justice and Interior departments on Tuesday to investigate the circumstances surrounding his arrest, indictment and the dismissal of the case, according to a letter seen by CBS News. Hearn’s case garnered national attention, after he was falsely accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial…
A Washington, D.C., judge permanently dismissed the criminal indictment against U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn Thursday, ending a months-long saga around allegations of vandalism to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after the government admitted to a “botched” construction job in recent renovations. In August, federal prosecutors asked Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman to dismiss the…
Washington — The Federal Reserve’s inspector general announced Wednesday that the multibillion-dollar renovations of the Fed’s headquarters criticized by President Trump as “disgraceful” did not violate federal law, though the office concluded poor project management dramatically increased the cost. “At no point during our evaluation did we find reasonable grounds to believe that a violation…
A National Guardsman assigned to patrol the streets of Washington, D.C., as part of President Trump’s crackdown on crime is now facing criminal charges himself after he allegedly pulled a gun on a colleague. Zion Mitchell, 21, of Macon, Georgia, was arrested earlier this month on charges of possessing a firearm while committing the crime…
Washington — The top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., said a woman has been arrested and faces two felony charges related to vandalism of the World War II Memorial in the capital. Melissa Farris has been charged with depredation against property of the United States and destruction of veterans’ memorials, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said…
White House officials have asked the Justice Department to weigh whether it is possible to bring a new criminal case against David Hearn, the former Olympian who was accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool, after federal prosecutors moved to dismiss the indictment against him earlier this month, according to multiple sources familiar with…
