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 raid of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home. The indictment of a prominent Virginia state senator for drug and bribery offenses. The charging of two ex-FBI officials with lying about their roles in the investigation of Hunter Biden. The overt investigative steps that the Justice Department took on these three criminal cases just…
Federal prosecutors were rebuffed in their effort to secure an indictment against former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson over her testimony related to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, according to four sources briefed on the grand jury proceedings. The Justice Department has not yet responded to a request for comment. The…
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 is investigating whether the major TV networks, including CBS, violated antitrust laws after they briefly suspended the television press pool system in response to President Trump’s decision last month to ban three news organizations from the White House. “Members of the television press pool have boycotted covering White House events,” Justice Department…
Deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are now facing an additional charge of conspiracy to commit torture as federal prosecutors filed a superseding indictment in the Southern District of New York on Thursday. “As alleged in the indictment, the Maduro regime subjected over a dozen American citizens to torture while held…
Federal prosecutors in Minneapolis are set to discuss “a significant counterterrorism law enforcement action” Wednesday afternoon. Federal authorities allege Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud “knowingly received a firearm and ammunition” while knowing, or having reasonable cause to believe, they would be used to commit a felony and a federal crime of terrorism, according to a petition filed…
Washington — The Justice Department took the unusual step on Wednesday of filing a judicial misconduct complaint against all but one of the federal district judges in Minnesota, after most of them spoke with the New York Times about concerns over the government’s handling of cases during its surge in immigration enforcement earlier this year….
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 new ad campaign glorifying President Trump is on the air on national cable and national networks including CBS beginning Thursday, and it’s being paid for by American taxpayers. The first ad, which hit the airwaves Wednesday and aired on Fox News Channel, opens with Mr. Trump vowing, “We will defeat communism, socialism and Marxism…
