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Brooklyn US Attorney Mark Lesko to Replace DOJ National Security Chief John Demers
Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Mark Lesko, will replace John Demers on an interim basis as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the National Security Division at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, a source familiar with the matter tells News 4. Jacquelyn M. Kasulis, currently the acting Chief Assistant to Lesko in...
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AP Source: Sheldon Silver Released From Prison on Furlough
Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been released from a federal prison on furlough while he awaits potential placement to home confinement, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. Silver, 77, began serving his more than six-year sentence at a prison in Otisville, New York, in August, after years of fending off going behind bars in...
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Judge Says Wife of ‘El Chapo' to Stay in Jail
A federal judge has ordered the wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to remain temporarily jailed after she was arrested and accused of helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar cartel and plotting his audacious escape from a Mexican prison in 2015. Emma Coronel Aispuro, a 31-year-old former beauty queen, appeared by video conference for an initial court appearance...
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Trump Decries FBI Probe of Supporters Surrounding Biden Bus
President Donald Trump on Sunday suggested the FBI should stop investigating an incident in which his supporters were seen surrounding a Biden campaign bus in Texas, which led Democrats to cancel an event there.
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Sheldon Silver Begins Prison Sentence in Corruption Case
Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, once one of the most powerful politicians in the state, started his prison sentence Wednesday after years of fending off going behind bars. Silver, 76, reported to a federal prison in Otisville, New York, according to a statement from the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He was sentenced earlier this year to 6 1/2…
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Feds to Seek Death Sentence for Boston Bomber Tsarnaev
The Justice Department will seek to reinstate a death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man who was convicted of carrying out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, Attorney General William Barr said Thursday. In an interview with The Associated Press, Barr said the Justice Department would appeal the court’s ruling last month that tossed Tsarnaev’s death sentence and ordered a...
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AG William Barr Says Trump Fired U.S. Attorney in Manhattan Investigating Trump Allies
It was unclear why Geoffrey Berman was leaving the position, but the sudden resignation is likely to raise additional questions from Democrats who have accused Barr of politicizing the Justice Department
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In Recording Trump Asks How Long Ukraine Can Resist Russians
President Donald Trump inquired how long Ukraine would be able to resist Russian aggression without U.S. assistance during a 2018 meeting with donors that included the indicted associates of his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. “How long would they last in a fight with Russia?” Trump is heard asking in the audio portion of a video recording, moments before he calls…
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3 More Linked to Neo-Nazi Group Arrested in Georgia
Three men linked to a violent white supremacist group known as The Base were charged with conspiring to kill members of a militant anti-fascist group, police in Georgia announced Friday, a day after three other members were arrested on federal charges in Maryland and Delaware....
...The Base, a collective of hardcore neo-Nazis that operate as a paramilitary organization, has proclaimed war...
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US Sends Home Nearly Two Dozen Saudi Cadets After Fla. Shooting
The United States is preparing to remove more than a dozen Saudi military students from a training program and return them to their home country after an investigation into a deadly shooting by a Saudi aviation student at a Florida navy base last month, a U.S. official told The Associated Press.
