Jeff Sessions speaking to supporters at an immigration rally hosted by Donald Trump. (Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore, CC 2.0) Jeff Sessions, at the time a Republican Senator from Alabama, was one of the Trump campaign's most frequently deployed surrogates in 2016. Sessions was the first GOP Senator to endorse Trump during the primaries – the … [Read more...]
Obstruction of Justice In The Mueller Report: Impeding the Special Counsel’s Investigation
Don McGahn speaking at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore, CC 2.0) From the very moment former FBI Director Robert Mueller was appointed as Special Counsel with a mandate to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election, Donald Trump has made clear that he … [Read more...]
Opioid Manufacturer Insys Caught In A Kickback Probe Files Bankruptcy
According to Reuters, Drugmaker Insys Therapeutics Inc filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday amid mounting expenses driven by a U.S. Justice Department probe into claims it paid doctors bribes to prescribe a powerful opioid medication. The Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing marked a first for a drugmaker accused in lawsuits of helping fuel the … [Read more...]
Assange Not Charged With CIA Leak by DOJ
The Justice Department has decided not to charge Julian Assange for his role in exposing some of the CIA’s most secret spying tools. This is according to a U.S. official and two other people familiar with the case. Politico reports It’s a move that has surprised national security experts and some former officials, given prosecutors’ recent … [Read more...]
Verdict Reached In Bribery Trial of U.S. Drug Execs Linked to Opioid Crisis
According to Reuters, the founder of Insys Therapeutics and four colleagues were found guilty on Thursday of bribing doctors to prescribe the drugmaker’s addictive painkiller, helping to drive the U.S. opioid drug abuse crisis. A federal jury in Boston found John Kapoor, guilty of racketeering conspiracy for a scheme that also misled insurers … [Read more...]
Nancy Pelosi Accused Barr Of Committing A Crime By Lying To Congress
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused Attorney General William Barr of committing a crime by lying to Congress concerning his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation on Thursday. "He lied to Congress — if anybody else did that it would be considered a crime. Nobody is above the law — not the president of the United States … [Read more...]
London Court Will Hear Assange Extradition Request
According to Reuters, a London court will hear an extradition requested by the US government for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The Westminster Magistrate Court will hear the request in the morning on May 2nd. The US Justice Department charged Assange for conspiring with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. Their arrangement … [Read more...]
Feds File Criminal Charges Against Opioid Distributor, Two Executives
Federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against drug distributor Rochester Drug Cooperative (RDC) and two of its former executives. The charges, a first, targeted at legal painkiller wholesalers for contributing to the opioid epidemic. Prosecutors allege executives shipped tens of millions of oxycodone pills, as well as other drugs like … [Read more...]
Alabama Prisons Are Killing Fields Rampant With Crime, Report Claims
Aliceville Correctional Facility (Photo Credit: Prison Insight, CC 2.0) Rape. Murder. Drug possession. Drug manufacturing. Drug trafficking. Assault. Weapons possession. Extortion. Menacing. Armed robbery. These are the crimes that can land you in a prison, but in Alabama, these are the crimes that happen on a daily basis in the state’s … [Read more...]
Justice Department Releases Redacted Report on the Investigation into Russian Election Interference
Thursday morning the United States Department of Justice made public the Report on the Investigation Into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election. The release came after Attorney General William Barr gave a press conference defending President Donald Trumps role in the interference. As reported, the end of the investigation … [Read more...]
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