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NBA Players Union Under Investigation

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Conflict of Interest, National Basketball Association, Nba Players Union, Derek Fisher, Los Angeles Lakers, Nba Lockout, Nba Playoffs, Billy Hunter, NBA Players Association, Slidepollajax, Investigation, U.S. Attorney, Nba, Business News

The union that represents NBA players said Friday it is being investigated by the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan. The announcement from the Natio...

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4 Suspected Members of Fringe Militia Group Charged In Terror Plot

AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Dan Roberts, Ray Adams, Samuel Crump, Georgia Militia Terror Plot, U.S. Attorney, Frederick Thomas, Ricin, Video, Crime News

ATLANTA — Four suspected members of a fringe north Georgia militia group have been charged with plotting to buy explosives and to manufacture a ...

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Decision To Crack Down On Medical Marijuana Made In California, Not Washington, U.S. Attorney Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Medical Cannibus, California, Medical Pot, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, Obama Pot, Pot, Pot Legalization, U.S. Attorney, Obama Marijuana, San Francisco News

WASHINGTON -- The decision to crack down on medical pot establishments in the Golden State was a collective decision by four U.S. attorneys in Califor...

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Obama U.S. Attorney Nominee David Barlow Is Tea Party Senator's General Counsel

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: David Barlow, Nominations, Caroline Fredrickson, Mike Lee, Orrin Hatch, Utah U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney, Utah, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Presidents routinely choose party loyalists as their U.S. attorneys. But normally, they choose nominees from their own party. Presid...

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Men Charged With Transporting Prostitutes To Vermont Farms

Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Prostitution, Heather Ross, Illegal Immigration, Farmers, Vermont, Sex Trade, Mexico, Burlington, Sex Trafficking, Tricks, New York, U.S. Attorney, Video, Business News

BRATTLEBORO, Vt - Federal prosecutors have charged two men with transporting several Hispanic women from New York to Vermont to have sex with farm...

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Honey Laundering: U.S. Catches Execs Smuggling $40 Million Of Drug-Infused Honey

aolnews.com | Andrew Schneider | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Smuggling, Patrick Fitzgerald, Honey, Hong Kong, Food, Chinese-Honey, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Honey Sting, U.S. Attorney, China, Business News

U.S. consumers stand a better chance of buying honey free of drugs, chemicals and other illegal contaminants because investigators from several federa...

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Alberto Gonzales On U.S. Attorney Firing Scandal: 'I Feel Angry That I Had To Go Through This'

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Friday he's angry about being put through a long-running criminal investigation into ...

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DOJ: Bush U.S. Attorney Firing Was Inappropriately Political But Not Criminal

AP | MATT APUZZO and PETE YOST | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Justice Department, Doj, Justice Department, Obama Doj, Bush Doj, Bush Justice Department, David Iglesias, US Attorney Scandal, U.S. Attorney, US Attorney, u.s. Attorneys, David Iglesias US Attorney, U.S. Attorney Scandal, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration's Justice Department's actions were inappropriately political, but not criminal, when it fired a U.S. attor...

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Right Wing PRAISES Ken Buck For Being Reprimanded By U.S. Attorney

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Erick Erickson, Josh Penry, Michael Bennet, 2010, U.S. Attorney, Colorado Senate Race, Jane Norton, Ken Buck, Denver News

When the Denver Post published a detailed account of events that led to Ken Buck's reprimand at the Colorado U.S. attorney's office, you could practic...

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U.S. Demands MILLIONS, Bentley From Two Ex-Madoff Employees

Huffington Post | Nathaniel Cahners Hindman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: JoAnn Crupi, Bernard Madoff, Ponzi Scheme, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, Securities Fraud, U.S. Attorney, Frank DiPascall, Annette-Bongiorno, Business News

In what one Madoff prosecutor called "another step in this still active and very much ongoing investigation," the U.S. Attorney's Office ordered two l...

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Mumbai Terror Case: U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald To Handle Case In Chicago

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mumbai Attacks, Patrick Fitzgerald, US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, US Attorney, Mumbai Terror, Chicago News

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has personally prosecuted just one case in Chicago since arriving in September 2001 from New York, where he'd made hi...

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Baucus Nominated Melodee Hanes, His Girlfriend, For U.S. Attorney

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Montana, Baucus, Democrat, Baucus Girlfriend, Doj, Senate Finance Committee, Senate, US Attorney, Wanda Baucus, Max Baucus, Melodee Hanes Photo, Drake University, Melodee Hanes Picture, Melodee Hanes, Politics News

***UPDATED, SCROLL DOWN FOR PHOTO OF MELODEE HANES*** WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus is defending recommending his gi...

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Stephanie Villafuerte, Former Ritter Aid Tapped By Obama Administration, Implicated In 2006 Immigrant Scandal: Denver Post

The Denver Post | Karen E. Crummy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: District Attorney, Carlos Estrada-Medina, Cory Voorhis, Chuck Lepley, Stephanie Villafuerte, Immigrant Plea Deal, Bill Ritter, U.S. Attorney, Fbi, Denver News

President Barack Obama's nominee as Colorado's next U.S. attorney told the FBI two years ago that she never spoke to anyone in the Denver District Att...

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Michele Brown: Christie Aide Who Got Loan May Have Helped Chris Christie Campaign For NJ Governor

New York Times | DAVID M. HALBFINGER | Posted 05.25.2011

When news broke in August that the former United States attorney, Christopher J. Christie, had lent $46,000 to a top aide in the federal prosecutor's ...

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Max Baucus Gave Staffer Girlfriend $14K Raise

Politico | MANU RAJU & JOHN BRESNAHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senator Max Baucus, Baucus, Senate, US Attorney, Melodee Hanes Max Baucus, Ethics, Melodee Hanes Raise, Max Baucus, Melodee Hanes, Politics News

Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, gave a nearly $14,000 pay raise to a female staffer in 2008, at the time...

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Obama's Biggest Mistake

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Insurance Industry, Montana, Melodee Hanes, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Girlfriend, Justice Department, Barack Obama, U.S. Attorney, Home News

Baucus asked the White House to appoint his girlfriend, Melodee Hanes, as Montana's U.S. Attorney. Didn't Obama learn anything from their years in Chicago surrounded by the patronage politics of the Daley machine?

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Ritter Aide Nominated For Colorado US Attorney

CBS4Denver | CBS 4 Denver | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colorado, US Attorney, Law, Udall, Ritter, Denver, Legal, Home News

President Barack Obama has nominated Gov. Bill Ritter's deputy chief of staff to be the top federal prosecutor in Colorado. Sen. Mark Ud...

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Protecting U.S. Attorneys from At-Will Discharge

Peter M. Shane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Karl Rove, U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney Scandal, Politics News

The rule of law depends on the public's confidence in the evenhanded administration of justice. The Bush White House proved that such confidence may well be unwarranted under the current system.

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U.S. Attorney's Office Told Staff Not To Use Drudge Report

Politico | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drudge Report Virus, Drudge, Matt Drudge, Drudge Report, US Attorney, US Attorneys Office, Drudge Virus, Politics News

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Massachusetts directed employees earlier this month not to log onto the Drudge Report website with government-issued com...

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UBS Tax Probe: US Citizen Charged, First One

Associated Press | Tamara Lush | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Swiss Tax Haven, Tax Haven, US Attorney, UBS AG, Tax Haven Ubs, Michael Rubenstein, Wealthy Americans, Ubs Tax Probe, Ubs Tax Haven, Miami-Florida, Business News

MIAMI (AP) -- A yacht company accountant became the first U.S. citizen Thursday to be charged in the government's investigation into wealthy citizens ...

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Don't Let Madoff Cop a Plea

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bernie Madoff Scam, Bernie Madoff Financial Markets, Charles Ponzi, Bernie Madoff, Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Bernie Madoff Jail, Bernie Madoff Victims, Regulatory Reform, Financial Crisis, Giant Ponzi Scheme, Global Financial Crisis, Ponzi, Alberto Gonzales, Ponzi Schemes, Financial Regulation, U.S. Attorney, Madoff-Plea-Deal, Business News

For the good of the American people, Madoff's victims, and the American financial regulatory system, Madoff should be tried in open court.

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Politico Labels Bush U.S. Attorney as GOP's Future, Ignores Evidence He Politicized Office

John R. Bohrer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chris Christie, New Jersey, Bob Menendez, Tom Kean Jr., George W. Bush, U.S. Attorney Scandal, U.S. Attorney, New Jersey Governor, Politics News

An anonymous U.S. Attorney who was cut loose in the firing scandal that brought down Alberto Gonzales tells Politico that some of the prosecutors who remained "wished they had been fired, too."

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Mexican Gov Denounces "Toughest Sheriff in America" TV Reality Star -- Sheriff Invites Critics to Investigate Personally

Dawn Teo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics News, Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, Toughest Sherrif in the World, Joe Arpaio, Maricopa Sheriff, Immigration, 287(G), U.S. Attorney, Tent City Jail, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Sheriff Arpaio, Eric Holder, Mexico, Politics News

Sheriff Arpaio is as controversial as he is popular, oscillating between a conservative media darling (even landing his own reality TV show) and a liberal media pariah.

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Lawmakers, Activists Demand New Investigation of Toughest Sheriff in America

Dawn Teo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, Maricopa Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, Immigration, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, 287(G), Tent City Jail, U.S. Attorney, Eric Holder, Toughest Sherrif in the World, Sheriff Arpaio, Politics News

Lawmakers, union leaders, human rights groups, Democratic Party leaders, and celebrities are taking on the "Toughest Sheriff in America" for policies that they say encourage racial profilin and civil rights violations.

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DOJ: Remaining Bush U.S. Attorneys Can Stay

Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Patrick Fitzgerald, Obama US Attorneys, Obama Justice Department, Bush Justice Department, Obama Doj, Bush Doj, US Attorneys, U.S. Attorney, Eric Holder, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, Politics News

With all the controversy surrounding the Bush administration's firings of several U.S. attorneys, the question for the Obama administration became: Wh...

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