Apr 09, 2018 · That DOJ officials approved the raid suggests that the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan had an extremely good reason to search Cohen’s workplace. This is the first public indication that Cohen...
Apr 10, 2018
Apr 10, 2018 · The raid was executed by the office of the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. The man running that office, interim U.S. attorney Geoffrey Berman, is a Trump appointee whom the president personally met with when he was up for the job. Berman also donated $5,400 to Trump’s presidential campaign.
5 hours ago · The Department of Justice announced on Wednesday its first consent decree with a local police department since Attorney General Merrick Garland rescinded a Trump-era memo that limited the use of ...
Never before had the FBI raided the congressional office of a sitting lawmaker, but that's what Justice officials proposed – and girded for – in the corruption case of Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., in 2006.
Then- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had huddled at least twice with senior FBI officials, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty and Steven Bradbury, who led Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel, ...
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz said investigators would look beyond the subpoenas to “other legal authorities (used) to obtain communication records … in connection with recent investigations of alleged unauthorized disclosures of information to the media by government officials.”.
McNulty, a college president, has incorporated the Jefferson episode in a class he teaches on the Constitution. Former Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty. Every now and then, the Department of Justice is going to have to make a decision that raises a significant constitutional question.