The Justice Department is investigating Rudy Giuliani over alleged efforts to lobby former President Trump on behalf of Turkish interests, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday. In 2017, Giuliani pushed Trump to drop federal charges against Reza Zarrab, an Iranian-Turkish gold trader accused of helping a state-owned Turkish bank funnel $10 billion to Iran in defiance of […]
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DOJ In Hot Water For Shady Subpoenas Of Lawmakers And Reporters
Attorney General Merrick Garland is scrambling to contain the fallout of a widening Justice Department scandal as Democratic allies and the press express outrage over revelations that his agency secretly obtained records of lawmakers, reporters and dozens of others as it carried out aggressive leak investigations during the Trump presidency. Just three months on the […]
DOJ Subpoenaed Trump’s Lawyers Phone Records
Silicon Valley powerhouse Apple last month told former President Donald Trump’s top lawyer, Donald McGahn, the Justice Department had subpoenaed information about his account in February 2018, the New York Times reported Sunday. The Times, citing two unnamed sources, reported the government also barred Apple from telling McGahn at the time, according to two people […]
Justice Really Going After Rudy Giuliani
The FBI’s search of Rudy Giuliani’s office this week signals that federal law enforcement is significantly ramping up its investigation into former President Trump’s ally and onetime legal adviser. Little is known about the scope of the investigation, but reporting suggests that the focus could be on Giuliani’s work on behalf of foreign clients, including […]
Trump’s AG nominee Jeff Sessions could terminate rule that protects state-legalized marijuana
The US marijuana industry’s vibrant growth in the grey area of federalism could be threatened by president-elect Donald Trump and his preferred choice for attorney general, Alabama senator Jeff Sessions. Sessions, an early backer of Trump’s presidential campaign and an outspoken critic of US immigration policy, is also an opponent of marijuana legalization. He has […]
Hillary forgets whether she ordered emails to be destroyed
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has said she “does not recall” ordering emails related to State Department business to be deleted or permanently erased from her personal server after she left her post in 2013, according to sworn testimony made public Thursday. The testimony, obtained by the conservative group Judicial Watch, marked the first time Clinton was […]