Sentences with phrase «justice department prosecutor»

Orin Kerr, a former Justice Department prosecutor who's now a law professor at George Washington University, shares this view.

Wykowski, a former Justice Department prosecutor, expects California lawmakers will produce «more well - defined regulations» for the state's legal cannabis market now that recreational pot will be legal to grow and sell.

In a new court filing regarding the Michael Cohen raids, Justice Department prosecutors in New York are citing President Donald Trump's own words during his angry Fox & Friends interview Thursday morning — and they're doing it to undercut Cohen and Trump's arguments.

FBI agents and prosecutors in New York believe the video bolstered their case that nothing was done wrong while Justice Department prosecutors believe the video was proof of wrongdoing on the officer's part.

Government documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union and provided to CNET show a split over electronic privacy rights within the Obama administration, with Justice Department prosecutors and investigators privately insisting they're not legally required to obtain search warrants for e-mail.

Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue offered only short answers in testimony Thursday in federal court when questioned by U.S. Justice Department prosecutors trying to solidify their case that Apple, along with five of the largest book publishers, worked together to illegally set the prices of electronic books for the market.

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Under Justice Department guidelines, prosecutors must consider alternatives to search warrants by using the «least intrusive approach» to gathering evidence from an attorney's office.

To avoid such a danger, the Justice Department creates a «taint team» of lawyers not involved in the case to review records and decide which ones shouldn't be seen by prosecutors on the case.

WASHINGTON, April 17 - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed Microsoft Corp's privacy fight with the Justice Department over whether prosecutors can force technology companies to hand over data stored overseas after Congress passed legislation that resolved the dispute.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, both conservatives, hinted during an hour - long argument in the case at support for the Justice Department's stance that because Microsoft is based in the United States it was obligated to turn over data sought by prosecutors in a U.S. warrant.

WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters)- Supreme Court justices on Tuesday wrestled with Microsoft Corp's dispute with the U.S. Justice Department over whether prosecutors can force technology companies to hand over data stored overseas, with some signaling support for the government and others urging Congress to pass a law to resolve the issue.

WASHINGTON, April 17 - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dropped Microsoft Corp's privacy fight with the Justice Department over whether prosecutors can force technology companies to hand over data stored overseas after Congress passed legislation that resolved the dispute.

WASHINGTON, Feb 27 - Supreme Court justices on Tuesday wrestled with Microsoft Corp's dispute with the U.S. Justice Department over whether prosecutors can force technology companies to hand over data stored overseas, with some signaling support for the government and others urging Congress to pass a law to resolve the issue.

Democrats compared the ouster to Nixon's decision to fire the independent special prosecutor overseeing the Watergate investigation in 1973, which prompted the resignations of the Justice Department's top two officials.

Citing anonymous government officials, the New York Times is reporting that federal prosecutors with the FBI and the Department of Justice have recommended that Petraeus be charged with a felony for providing classified information to his mistress and biographer, Paula Broadwell, who was also an Army Reserve officer.

If confirmed, Sessions would have broad latitude to define how federal prosecutors across the country wield their powers and make changes to the Justice Department's priorities.

The Senate established a committee to investigate, and the Justice Department appointed a special prosecutor.

But the FBI director is never empowered to supplant federal prosecutors and assume command of the Justice Department.»

Jeffrey Cramer, a former federal prosecutor who spent 12 years at the Department of Justice, cautioned against painting the identity of Person A with too broad a brush.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Justice Department is forming a team of prosecutors to investigate drug trafficking and money laundering linked to Iranian - backed Hezbollah militant movement, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday.

Prosecutors who specialize in terrorism, narcotics trafficking and organized crime, led by the acting head of the Justice Department's criminal division, will bring prosecutions designed to restrict the flow of money to terrorist groups, Sessions said.

Larson said he was contacted a week ago by the Justice Department and local prosecutors about representing the victims, prior to the dispute becoming public.

On May 2, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department would increase prosecutors and immigration judges at the U.S. southern border to...

Justice Department rules require prosecutors to first consider less intrusive alternatives before seeking records from lawyers.

The searches open a new front for the Justice Department in its scrutiny of Mr. Trump and his associates: His longtime lawyer is being investigated in Manhattan; his son - in - law, Jared Kushner, is facing scrutiny by prosecutors in Brooklyn; his former campaign chairman is under indictment; his former national security adviser has pleaded guilty to lying; and a pair of former campaign aides are cooperating with Mr. Mueller.

Fried Frank Of Counsel and author of the leading False Claims Act treatise, John T. Boese (on left), and his partner Douglas W. Baruch, offered insightful analysis on two recent Department of Justice policy documents (the «Granston Memo» and the «Brand Memo») and their impact on FCA actions by both qui tam relators and federal prosecutors.

The Justice Department will send 35 prosecutors and 18 judges to the southern U.S. border to bolster efforts to prosecute immigrants entering the U.S. illegally, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Wednesday.

It would seem that a majority of Americans are in favor of decriminalizing the recreational use of pot, and the Department of Justice has advised federal prosecutors that possession of a small amount of it is not an....

Gary Haugen was 30 years old, working as a prosecutor at the United States Department of Justice when he was sent on an assignment that would change his life: He went to Rwanda to investigate the genocide that had killed hundreds of thousands.

In a concession to conservatives clamoring for new investigations into Clinton's emails and the Justice Department's actions in the Russia investigation, Attorney General Jeff Sessions named a federal prosecutor from Utah to head the review.

Bharara on Saturday said he was fired by the Trump administration as the Justice Department removed the final 46 Obama - era federal prosecutors.

Preet Bharara, a fiercely independent prosecutor, was among 46 U.S. attorneys asked to resign by the Department of Justice.

But the decision ultimately rested with Justice Department higher - ups, who apparently rejected arguments from the prosecutors.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said that Trump has not directed the Justice Department to investigate «particular people,» after the president said at a rally Thursday that prosecutors should look at Hillary Clinton's «33,000 deleted emails.»

Virginia Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe is the subject of an ongoing investigation by the FBI and prosecutors from the Justice Department's public integrity unit.

it's very unusual for the Department of Justice to permit prosecutors to raid an attorney's office and that's because you want to be careful not to get privileged material,» said Litman, who teaches at the UCLA School of Law and continues to practice at the law firm Constantine Cannon.

«The U.S. Attorney's statements violated no ethical rule, did not unfairly prejudice the defendant, and were consistent with the stated mission of the [Department of Justice],» Bharara's team wrote in a Manhattan federal court filing responding to Silver's motion to have the case tossed based on the prosecutor's post-arrest statements.

If that isn't hot enough for you the Justice Department is said to be considering having federal agents and prosecutors from the Southern District of New York join the jamboree originally launched by feds in the Northern District.

But other prosecutors in the Justice Department believe there is enough evidence to move forward with a case, the New York Times reported.

But the far - reaching extent of the investigation by federal prosecutors, the FBI, and special Justice Department criminal investigators, working directly for Eastern District U.S. Attorney Robert Capers, has not been publicly reported, the sources said.

Anne Milgram: Former Attorney General, State of New Jersey; former federal prosecutor, Civil Rights Division, United States Department of Justice, Senior Fellow, Center on Administration of Criminal Law at New York University School of Law.

Federal prosecutors have launched «an assault on the criminal opacity of Albany,» in the words of one Justice Department official, and could take the unusual step of producing a grand - jury report on systemic public corruption in the state Capitol.

The Trump administration today moved to sweep away the remaining vestiges of Obama administration prosecutors at the Justice Department, ordering 46 holdover United States attorneys to tender their resignations immediately — apparently including Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan.

Donations to the Clinton Foundation took a precipitous dive for a second year in a row as Justice Department officials mulled whether they would appoint a special prosecutor to probe the non-profit's «alleged unlawful dealings.»

«We're not prosecutors anymore,» said Rice, who like Katko is a former federal prosecutor for the Justice Department.

The Times initially floated Bridget Healy of ING, Hector Gonzalez, a former federal prosecutor who is now a partner at Dechert, as well as Marshall Miller, the principal deputy assistant attorney general at the federal Department of Justice.

«There appears to be a cover - up unless and until the truth is realized and the only way that's going to be accomplished is if the Justice Department appoints a special prosecutor.»

US AG Jeff Sessions said there was «not enough basis» to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton, a day after reports surfaced that the attorney general had authorized senior prosecutors at the Department of Justice to evaluate an inquiry into the Clinton Foundation.

But Bharara in an interview with WAMC's Alan Chartock indicated — at first lightly and later more seriously — that he wants to stay in his job as the prosecutor of the Southern District of New York, arguably one of the most high - profile posts in the U.S. Department of Justice.

Two days before the inauguration, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she wanted immediate repeal of Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and an investigation into whether the Bush Justice Department illegally fired federal prosecutors.