Tag: DOJ
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FTX Customers, Investors Will Testify Against Sam Bankman-Fried, DOJ Says
[ad_1] “To obtain likely less than 30 minutes of testimony from overseas FTX customer witnesses, however, requires, for at least some countries, coordinating with local authorities, arranging multi-day travel itineraries to accommodate varying time changes and travel delays, and incurring significant costs associated with such arrangements. Notwithstanding those hurdles, the Government is in the process…
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Federal judge rules DoJ can publish Google antitrust exhibits online, ending a one-week media blackout
[ad_1] In brief: Despite Alphabet’s objections, the judge presiding over the US Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Google ruled that the DoJ can publish trial documents online. However, the ruling is not without exception, and both parties are to resolve objections to sensitive materials by the next business day. The side fighting started over a…
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DOJ seeks order banning Trump from sharing evidence after Truth Social post
[ad_1] The Justice Department has asked the federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s election fraud case to issue a protective order after the former president appeared to threaten revenge on those who “go after” him. Special counsel Jack Smith argued in the Friday night filing that Trump, 77, needs strict orders that prevent him from publicly…
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Networks Ignore DOJ Investigation of Corrupt NJ Senator Bob Menendez
[ad_1] On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that the corrupt New Jersey Democrat Senator Bob Menendez is once again under investigation by the Department of Justice for violation of Congressional ethics rules. This is the second time in less than a decade that Menendez has been investigated for corruption and ethics violations. Despite this…
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FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s Attempts to Influence Witnesses Show He Must Be Jailed Before Trial: DOJ
[ad_1] “The defendant’s leaking of Ellison’s private writings is yet another instance of the defendant trying to intimidate and corruptly persuade Ellison with respect to her upcoming trial testimony, as well as an effort to influence or prevent the testimony of other potential trial witnesses by creating the specter that their most intimate business is…
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DOJ launches investigation into Memphis Police Department : NPR
[ad_1] A patch of the Memphis Police Department pictured on May 18, 2023 in Nashville, Tenn. George Walker IV/AP hide caption toggle caption George Walker IV/AP A patch of the Memphis Police Department pictured on May 18, 2023 in Nashville, Tenn. George Walker IV/AP The Justice Department has launched an investigation into Memphis and its…
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Gov. Greg Abbott Says He’ll Defy DOJ Orders On Floating Border Wall
[ad_1] Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) sent a letter to the Biden administration Monday declaring his plans to continue using a floating wall along the state’s southern border, even after the Justice Department warned him last week that it plans to sue him for deploying the barricade. “Texas will see you in court, Mr. President,”…
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U.S. Senator Thomas Tuberville Asks DOJ, SEC to Investigate Crypto Broker Prometheum
[ad_1] Prometheum “may have provided false testimony to Congress or violated U.S. securities laws,” the open letter began. The lawmaker said Prometheum CEO Aaron Kaplan told Congress that it developed its own blockchain platform independently starting in December 2019. However, in SEC filings filed through 2021, Prometheum said it depended on Shanghai Wanxiang Blockchain, Inc.,…
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Gavin Newsom Asks DOJ To Investigate Ron DeSantis’ Migrant Relocation Program
[ad_1] California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), along with two others, penned a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland asking him to open a Justice Department investigation into Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ program luring in and dropping off migrants in various blue states. The letter from Newsom, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and a Texas…
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DOJ Suspected Within Weeks That Trump Was Moving Classified Docs From Mar-a-Lago To Bedminster
[ad_1] Federal prosecutors grew alarmed and suspected almost immediately that Donald Trump was moving classified documents from Mar-a-Lago to Bedminster. The Guardian reported: The indications of classified documents at Bedminster so alarmed prosecutors that they focused part of the investigation on whether Trump might have transported the materials or…