why does attorney general sessions not fighting against washington corruption

Where can I find more information about public corruption cases?

May 03, 2018 · Instead, under Holder and Lynch, reporters like James Rosen were wiretapped. All Jeff Sessions can claim is that he is a crusader against pot, which will likely be legal in all fifty states within in the next five years. I am sick and tired of do-nothing Jeff Session and his goon Rod Rosenstein.

Who is the lead prosecutor in Los Angeles City Hall corruption investigation?

What Is Still Happening: When William Barr was nominated to replace Jeff Sessions as attorney general, significant segments of the Washington legal establishment supported the …

What does the public corruption section do?

Jan 24, 2018 · January 24, 2018. 9 min read. It is long past time for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to appoint a special counsel to investigate the …

Why has the FBI been so successful in combating public corruption?

Dec 27, 2021 · For publicly available information on other cases prosecuted as part of the U.S. Attorney's Office's continuing focus on public corruption as a high priority, please check our website or contact our media representative at 717-221-4482. In coordination with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, the office is continuing to ...

Sessions Has No Choice But To Appoint A Special Counsel To Investigate DOJ, FBI

Americans should be reassured that the federal law enforcement agencies are working to keep America safer rather than focused on revenge against political enemies.

Why A Second Special Counsel?

The current special counsel probably should have been investigating the FBI and DOJ as part of his charge into the Russia probe. Mueller has been on the case since May, and should have seen enough shortly thereafter to be concerned about various agencies’ handling of the probes.

Does Sessions Care About Charges Of Corruption At DOJ?

Congressional investigators and concerned citizens are growing alarmed. Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen. Ron Johnson, Rep. Ron DeSantis, Rep. Jim Jordan, Rep. Lee Zeldin, Rep. Mark Meadows, and many other informed members of Congress have called for a second special counsel to deal with allegations of corruption at the Department of Justice.

What happened to William Courtright?

Scranton Mayor William L. Courtright, age 61, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 7 years' imprisonment on October 2, 2020, following his guilty plea on July 2, 2019, to a criminal information charging him with three felony public corruption offenses. Courtright resigned from his position as Mayor of Scranton on July 1, 2019. The criminal information charged Courtright with engaging in a multi-year conspiracy with unidentified individuals to take bribes from vendors who did business with the City. The information also alleged that other objectives of the conspiracy were to commit the offenses of attempted extortion under color of official right and extortion through use of fear of economic harm. Courtright’s corrupt activities came to light during a multi-year undercover investigation headed by the FBI. The undercover investigation revealed that the former mayor accepted cash payments from vendors doing business with the city in a pay-to-play scheme.

What happened to Mark Icker?

Icker worked as a police officer for the Ashley Borough Police Department in December 2018. On December 3, 2018 and December 10, 2018, Icker, while acting under color of the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, willfully deprived two women of their liberty without due process of law, which includes the right to bodily integrity, by coercing the women into engaging in unwanted sexual contact with him .

Who is Edward Weidow?

Edward Weidow, age 65, of Scranton, was charged on July 22, 2019, in a criminal information with making false statements to federal investigators in a public corruption investigation involving former Mayor of Scranton, William Courtright. The criminal information alleged that Weidow took cash from vendors and then transferred ...

Who is Timothy Riley?

Timothy Riley, a 48-year-old now retired Narcotics Agent with the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, Narcotics Investigations, was sentenced on May 30, 2019, to 36 months’ imprisonment and to forfeit up to $800,000 for a conspiracy to launder proceeds of a nation-wide drug trafficking organization. John Oiler, a 49-year-old Georgia man, was sentenced on May 16, 2019, to serve 30 months’ imprisonment and to forfeit up to $800,000. The third co-conspirator, Michael Sean Riley, age 51, was sentenced on September 29, 2020, to serve 72 months' imprisonment and to forfeit up to $800,000. Michael Riley arranged with John T. Oiler to rent a storage unit in Baltimore and travel to Pennsylvania to take possession of more than $800,000 of cash drug proceeds Michael Riley skimmed from a larger load of cash. Oiler took the vast majority of those proceeds and stored them in the rented unit in Baltimore. Michael Riley then contacted his cousin, Timothy Riley, then a Narcotics Agent of the PA Attorney General’s Office Bureau of Narcotics Investigations Mobile Street Crimes Unit, and turned over the rest of the cash proceeds to him and other agents from the Mobile Street Crimes Unit. Michael Riley paid Timothy Riley $48,000, which Timothy Riley subsequently laundered. Oiler and Michael Riley each netted about $400,000 of the proceeds and conducted numerous financial transactions with the cash drug proceeds.

Who is the clerk of court for Schuylkill County?

Clerk of Courts for Schuylkill County Steven M. Lukach, Jr., age 69, of Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 27 months' imprisonment on October 20, 2020, for mail fraud and falsification of records. Lukach formerly served as the Clerk of Courts for Schuylkill County for approximately 27 years. In 2013-2014, county auditors with the Controller’s Office began an in depth examination of the Clerk’s Office and discovered misappropriation of funds by Lukach. An FBI investigation ensued and while the audit was going on, Lukach interfered with the audit by stealing mail that was sent to banks, forged records and sent the fake bank records to the Controller’s Office. Lukach did so in an effort to conceal that he was taking funds from various accounts for his own personal purposes, such as paying a family member’s credit card bill, paying for meals, making car payments, and other personal expenses.

What is public corruption?

The Section’s public corruption work involves the investigation and prosecution of bribery, extortion, fraud, and embezzlement committed by elected and appointed officials, government employees, and those doing business with city, state, and federal government.

Who is the lead prosecutor in the PCCR?

Mack Jenkins was appointed Chief of the Public Corruption and Civil Rights (PCCR) Section in May 2017, after previously serving as Deputy Chief. Mack is a graduate of Yale Law School and joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2008. He is currently the lead prosecutor in the Office’s ongoing corruption investigation into Los Angeles City Hall. While in the PCCR Section he helped author the Office’s first wiretap of a sitting state senator in decades. That wiretap resulted in bribery and money laundering charges against former CA Senator Ron Calderon and his brother, former CA Assemblyman Tom Calderon. The Calderon convictions garnered Mack a California Lawyer’s Attorney of the Year Award in 2017. Mack also lead a hate crime investigation stemming from a gang’s coordinated midnight firebombing of units in the Ramona Gardens Housing Development that were occupied by Black families, including children, in order to drive these families out of their homes. This successful prosecution received the Anti-Defamation League’s Combatting Hate Award in 2020. Mack’s public corruption and civil rights work also earned him the Daily Journal’s “Top 100 Lawyers in California” recognition in 2020.

What is the role of civil rights and corruption?

Attorneys in the Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section prosecute impactful cases aimed at preserving the government’s integrity, reforming corrupt behavior, and protecting citizens’ constitutional rights. The Section works in close partnership with the FBI and other investigative agencies to achieve its goals.

When did Sessions respond to Trump's tweet?

Rather than silently accepting Trump’s insults as he has so many times in the past, in March 2018 Sessions responded to the president’s “disgraceful” tweet with a statement explaining his actions.

When did Trump say he wouldn't have nominated Sessions?

In his first public attack on Sessions, Trump told the New York Times on July 19, 2017 , that he wouldn’t have nominated Sessions if he knew he was going to recuse himself.

How many times did Trump press Sessions to step aside?

Axios reported in May 2018 that Trump repeatedly tried to get Sessions to reverse his decision to step aside from oversight of the Mueller probe, pressuring him “on at least four separate occasions, three times in person and once over the phone, according to sources familiar with the conversations.” Trump reportedly told Sessions that he’d be a “hero” to conservatives if he did the “right thing,” but the AG didn’t budge.

Who fired Andrew McCabe?

Following Trump’s public complaints about FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, Sessions reportedly pressured FBI director Christopher Wray to fire him in December. Wray refused and threatened to quit if Sessions didn’t back off, according to Axios, and McGahn told him it wasn’t worth losing another FBI director.

Who were the two Republican representatives indicted?

After two Republican representatives up for reelection, Duncan Hunter and Chris Collins, were indicted in August, Trump lashed out at Sessions again via tweet. (As it turns out, both candidates won on Tuesday despite the indictments.)

Did Sessions recuse himself from the 2016 election?

The next day Sessions announced he would recuse himself from any investigation into the 2016 campaign. “So in the end I have followed the right procedure,” he said, “… just as I believe any good attorney general should do.”

Did Sessions take control of the Justice Department?

In an August 2018 Fox & Friends interview, Trump groused about Sessions’s recusal again, saying he “never took control of the Justice Department.” Sessions “took the job and then he said, ‘I’m going to recuse myself.’ I said what kind of a man is this?” Trump recalled.

Where is Jeff Sessions meeting?

Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions attends a meeting of local Republicans in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, in January. Sessions faces a runoff in the Republican primary race for his old Senate seat. The Washington Post via Getty Im

Who won the Alabama special election?

The victor from Tuesday's runoff in Alabama will go on to face Democratic Sen. Doug Jones for a seat that's the GOP's best pickup opportunity of the cycle since Trump carried the reliably red state by a nearly 28-point margin in 2016. Jones won the 2017 Alabama special election in a huge upset due to Sessions' resignation to become attorney general. The Democrat defeated GOP nominee Roy Moore, who unsuccessfully ran again in 2020, after facing multiple sexual misconduct allegations, which he has denied.