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Second-highest ranking official of the U.S. Department of Justice
President Trump has reportedly demanded roughly $230 million (widely reported as in that range) from the Justice Department to reimburse him for past federal investigations, a demand that critics say ...
Federal control over investigations of officer-involved shootings by federal agents rests on a mix of constitutional supremacy, federal criminal statutes, and prosecutorial discretion, but states reta...
The principal repositories of Jeffrey Epstein‑related material in 2025 were federal: the U.S. Department of Justice (including the FBI and U.S. Attorneys’ Offices such as the Southern District of New ...
Law enforcement has arrested multiple people for producing, possessing, or distributing AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in a series of cases and multinational operations; notable examp...
Ghislaine Maxwell was moved in 2025 from a low‑security federal facility in Tallahassee, Florida, to the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) in Bryan, Texas — a minimum‑security “camp” — a transfer the Bureau o...
follows a layered, legally cautious process when : investigations are usually handled by but — under recent formal guidance — require heightened consultation with and other Main Justice offices before...
There is no reliable reporting that any federal prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross is planned; the Department of Justice has publicly said it will not investigate Ross for the fatal shooting of Re...
Multiple reputable newsrooms and government law‑enforcement offices have combed the newly released files; major investigative outlets including Times, , , and have reported on named politicians and pu...
The public tranche of more than 3 million pages of records contains numerous references to but does not present records or subpoenas showing about ; the released material instead includes unverified t...
in 2025–26 significantly narrowed and in many cases curtailed foreign-bribery enforcement, with reporting that roughly half of foreign bribery probes were dropped or deprioritized and advocacy groups ...
The Justice Department can pay private claimants only after they exhaust administrative routes or win judgments; Trump has filed administrative claims seeking about $230 million, which would be handle...
The Justice Department’s own Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) investigated the 2008 non‑prosecution agreement (NPA) with Jeffrey Epstein and found that Alexander Acosta, then U.S. Attorney ...