EEV: Requires secondary confirmation Excerpt added from “The Guardian” in regards to the package offered to some of the Scottish in exchange for a no vote… ” James Gray, another Tory MP and former shadow Scottish secretary, has also joined the… Read More ›
United States Department of Justice
2014 Jefferson Muzzles
The U.S. Department of Justice The White House Press Office The National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security The North Carolina General Assembly Police The Kansas Board of Regents Modesto Junior College The Tennessee State Legislature Wharton High… Read More ›
AG Order No. 3420-2014 Policy Regarding Obtaining Information From, or Records of, Members of the News Media; and Regarding Questioning, Arresting, or Charging Members of the News Media
SUMMARY: This rule amends the policy of the Department of Justice regarding the use of subpoenas, certain court orders, and search warrants, to obtain information from, or records of, members of the news media. The rule also amends the Department’s… Read More ›
Chase’s ‘Secret’ Deal With Feds Faces Challenge
– The historic agreement gives JPMorgan Chase “complete civil immunity” for its illegal conduct regarding the packaging of “toxic subprime mortgages” and contribution to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression – “This contract was the product of negotiations… Read More ›
Over 100 Swiss banks seek amnesty for helping Americans evade tax
More institutions than expected will tell how they helped American clients hide their assets UPDATED : Monday, 27 January, 2014, 6:14am Bloomberg in New Jersey Third of Swiss banks seek US tax amnesty The top US tax prosecutor says 106… Read More ›
FBI informants allowed to break the law astonishing 5,939 times last year
The FBI supplies the Justice Department with a list of authorized ‘otherwise illegal’ activities committed by informants every year The mandate was put in place after it was revealed that mobster Whitey Bulger was a bureau snitch According to the… Read More ›
Government Told to Explain Need for Secrecy “But says it’s a Secret “
By JACK BOUBOUSHIAN (CN) – The U.S. government must explain why a Feb. 19 order of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court cannot be released to the public, even in a redacted form, a FISC judge ruled. In September 2013, Judge… Read More ›
Amber Alert website has been taken offline during the shutdown but Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move site is up and running
By Meghan Keneally PUBLISHED: 09:42 EST, 7 October 2013 | UPDATED: 09:44 EST, 7 October 2013 The website dedicated to helping find kidnapped children has been turned off during the government shutdown but the First Lady’s healthy living initiative… Read More ›
Big 3 Accused of Price-Fixing for Fracking
By CAMERON LANGFORD ShareThis HOUSTON (CN) – Halliburton, Schlumberger and Baker Hughes used their 60 percent share of U.S. fracking services to fix and raise prices, a petroleum company claims in federal antitrust class action. Cherry Canyon Resources accuses… Read More ›
US student jailed without food, water reaches $5.2m settlement / He was Innocent
Reuters Wednesday, Jul 31, 2013 SAN DIEGO – A California university student who was left handcuffed in a federal holding cell for nearly 5 days without food or water has reached a US$4.1 million (S$5.2 million) settlement with the US… Read More ›
Halliburton pleads guilty to destroying Gulf spill evidence/ Will pay $200,000 fine
Source: Reuters – Fri, 26 Jul 2013 12:19 AM Author: Reuters * Third company to plead guilty over Gulf spill * Halliburton to pay $200,000 fine * $55 million to be donated to fish and wildlife group By Jonathan… Read More ›
Halliburton admits destroying evidence of oil disaster in Gulf of Mexico
Photo: EPA Halliburton Energy Services has admitted destroying evidence relating to the devastating 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, federal officials said. A Justice Department statement said Halliburton – which constructed the cement casing of… Read More ›
Math Behind Leak Crackdown: 153 Cases, 4 Years, 0 Indictments
July 20, 2013 By SHARON LaFRANIERE Soon after President Obama appointed him director of national intelligence in 2009, Dennis C. Blair called for a tally of the number of government officials or employees who had been prosecuted for… Read More ›
Scandal for American justice: FBI could be at fault in 27 death row cases
Unprecedented federal review rules that the FBI may have exaggerated forensics in case of Willie Jerome Manning – a decision that puts other convictions in doubt Spencer S Hsu Thursday, 18 July 2013 An unprecedented federal review of old criminal… Read More ›
Eric Holder PERSONALLY approved the seizure of Fox News reporter’s emails
An unnamed sourced claims Eric Holder personally signed off the warrant to seize James Rosen’s emails The Justice Department believed Rosen to be a ‘possible co-conspirator’ Holder had previously denied any knowledge of his department’s decision to obtain the phone… Read More ›
Justice Department also seized the phone records of Fox News reporter’s PARENTS, documents reveal
Documents reveal that federal agents spied on the phone records of his parents, who live on New York’s Staten Island Reporters James Rosen and William La Jeunesse, producer Mike Levine were the subject of subpoenas but never notified by the… Read More ›
US targeted Fox News reporter as ‘co- conspirator’ in government spying case
Washington Post reports FBI sought phone records and emails of James Rosen as part of spying case against goverment official Tom McCarthy guardian.co.uk, Monday 20 May 2013 13.15 EDT Rosen has not been charged in the case, but Steven Jin-Woo… Read More ›
‘A massive and unprecedented intrusion’: Associated Press condemns US government for seizing journalists’ telephone records without explanation
John Hall Tuesday, 14 May 2013 The Associated Press news agency has condemned the US government for the unexplained seizure of records of telephone calls made by its journalists. Describing the seizure as “a massive and unprecedented intrusion”, AP’s… Read More ›
DOJ Wants More for Prisons Than U.S. Security
WASHINGTON (CN) – President Obama’s proposed 2014 budget for the Department of Justice will spend $4.1 billion more on prisons than on “national security,” the Justice Department revealed Wednesday. Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday released the… Read More ›
Big banks take advantage of money laundering epidemic in US
Published time: April 01, 2013 15:13 AFP Photo / Noel Celis The attorney general of the United States says the country’s largest banks may be too big to jail, but the former chief economist for the International Monetary Fund… Read More ›
US drug prosecutors switch sides to defend accused Colombian traffickers
After working to take down cartels, former officials say America’s ‘war on drugs’ is misguided and the human cost too high Rory Carroll in Los Angeles The Guardian, Wednesday 27 February 2013 11.46 EST Leo Arreguin, right, was a… Read More ›
Standard & Poor’s Sued by U.S. for Fake Ratings
By BARBARA LEONARD (CN) – Standard & Poor’s inflated its ratings of mortgage-backed securities, ignoring the inherent credit risks that brought the financial sector to its knees in 2008, the U.S. government says in Federal Court. Filed late… Read More ›
$11.4 Million for Drug Kickbacks : Naproxen, Xodol, Fexmid, Dolgic
SAN DIEGO (CN) – San Diego-based Victory Pharma will pay $11.4 million in civil and criminal fines for paying kickbacks to doctors who prescribed its drugs, federal prosecutors said. Victory entered a deferred-prosecution agreement, agreed to pay… Read More ›
Officials defend decision not to prosecute in money-laundering case despite HSBC’s ‘blatant failure’ to implement controls
EEV: So the Investors pay while the criminals once again go free HSBC’s record $1.9bn fine preferable to prosecution, US authorities insist Dominic Rushe in New York and Jill Treanor in London guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 11 December 2012 15.37 EST Assistant attorney general Lanny… Read More ›
FBI ordered to disclose “Going Dark” surveillance program: “police can place surveillance cameras on private property without a search warrant “
Posted by Mohit Kumar on 11/03/2012 05:47:00 AM | A federal judge ordered the FBI to disclose more information about its “Going Dark” surveillance program, an initiative to extend its ability to wiretap virtually all forms of electronic communications. …. Read More ›
US rapidly increased electronic surveillance
Published: 27 September, 2012, 21:51 The US Justice Department has wiretapped the phones of more Americans in the last two years than the entire decade before it, and federal surveillance targeting the Internet usage of US civilians has surged wildly,… Read More ›
Miracle-Gro to pay big fine for fake pesticides, poison bird feed: Falsifying pesticide registration documents, distributing pesticides with misleading and unapproved labels and distributing unregistered pesticides.
By Agence France-Presse Saturday, September 8, 2012 9:13 EDT Lawn and garden products company Scotts Miracle-Gro will pay $12.5 million in fines for poisoning bird feed and violating pesticide laws, officials said Friday. Scotts will pay record criminal and civilian… Read More ›
BP executives sought to blame “blue collar rig workers”: U.S.: “”This was a decision designed to ensure that the public and legal lines of accountability would be focused exclusively on blue collar rig workers and other contractor/defendants – but at all cost, not upon BP management and the inexplicable behaviors that coursed through the pages” of the internal BP emails.”
By David IngramPosted 2012/09/06 at 7:25 pm EDT WASHINGTON, Sep. 6, 2012 (Reuters) — BP executives wanted to concentrate blame for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster on “blue collar rig workers” in order to save themselves, U.S. government lawyers… Read More ›
U.S. lawmakers accuse Walmart of tax evasion and money laundering
By Agence France-Presse Wednesday, August 15, 2012 17:38 EDT WASHINGTON — Two US lawmakers probing bribery allegations against Walmart in Mexico say they have documents suggesting the US retail giant may also have engaged in tax evasion and money laundering…. Read More ›
Merck Accused of Faking Mumps Vaccine Data
Couthouse News Service Site 27 JUN 201 PHILADELPHIA (CN) – Merck has known for a decade that its mumps vaccine is “far less effective” than it tells the government, and it falsified test results and sold millions of doses of… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 