Tag: DOJ

DOJ Asks Appeals Court to Partially Block Special Master Review of Seized Documents

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday asked an appeals court to partially block the court-appointed “special master” duties of senior Judge Raymond Dearie to review documents the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago. This comes one day after U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon tasked Dearie with independently reviewing the documents taken in August from the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump. Part…


Here Is What We Know About the Special Master Named to Review Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Documents

U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie will serve as the independent arbiter to review documents that were taken from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, according to a federal judge’s order on Thursday. Dearie, 79, was the only candidate for the special master role that both Trump’s team and the Department of Justice (DOJ) agreed on….


DOJ Charges 3 Iranian Nationals for Cyberattacks Targeting Local US Governments

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday charged three Iranian nationals for alleged cyber attacks targeting U.S. infrastructure and local governments. An indictment (pdf) that was unsealed in a federal court alleged that Mansour Ahmadi, Ahmad Khatibi Aghda, and Amir Hossein Nickaein Ravari engaged in a series of ransomware schemes starting in October 2020 to hack computer…


DOJ Wanted Mar-a-Lago Surveillance Footage From Months Ago: Court Filing

The Department of Justice (DOJ) sought Mar-a-Lago security footage from early January 2022 onward, according to a court filing on Tuesday that was unsealed by a federal judge. The new information surfaced after a federal judge allowed the DOJ to request to unseal more portions of the affidavit that was used to obtain an FBI…


DOJ Responds to Trump, Insists on Keeping ‘Over 100’ Mar-a-Lago Documents

Lawyers for the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday filed a new motion that again seeks a stay in a judge’s order appointing a special master to review documents that were seized during last month’s FBI raid targeting former President Donald Trump’s residence. In the latest filing, DOJ prosecutors said that they want a “limited”…


Trump Raid Wasn’t About State Secrets, It Was About Springing an Obstruction Trap to Get Trump | Truth Over News

So much has been said and written about the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid that it’s become difficult to understand what is really going on. The corporate media and Democrats keep harping on about former President Donald Trump having stolen secret documents. Trump supporters keep reciting executive privilege and that Trump declassified everything. Both sets of arguments…


Trump Team Opposes DOJ’s Mar-a-Lago Special Master Candidates

Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers on Monday filed a motion objecting to special master candidates proposed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to review documents taken by FBI agents from Mar-a-Lago. Trump’s attorneys, in a three-page filing (pdf), asked “for permission to specifically express our objections to the Government’s nominees only at such time that the…


DOJ Official Who Exposed Themselves, ‘Sexually Assaulted Civilian’ Won’t Be Prosecuted: IG

The Department of Justice Inspector General’s office will not prosecute an assistant U.S. attorney who engaged in sexual misconduct with a civilian on a date. The office said (pdf) Monday that an investigation had determined the unnamed assistant U.S. attorney exposed themselves in a public place and then “sexually assaulted a civilian while on a…


Trump Team Accuses DOJ of Inciting ‘Chaos’ by Blocking Special Master

Former President Donald Trump’s legal team accused the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday of blocking an attempt “towards restoring order from chaos” by arguing against the appointment of an independent arbiter. “The very purpose of a special master is to serve as a neutral third party, with appropriate authorization, reviewing documents to facilitate resolution…


Judge Set to Hear Trump and DOJ Picks for Special Master

Former President Donald Trump and the Justice Department (DOJ) have each submitted two candidates to serve as an independent special master to review documents the FBI seized from the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence last month. The four candidates for the position were revealed on Sept. 9 in an eight-page filing (pdf) with the U.S. District…