The acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia on Friday said there is no “direct evidence” suggesting that rioters who breached the Capitol last week were planning to kidnap or kill lawmakers. “We don’t have any direct evidence of kill capture teams,” U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin told reporters Friday. Federal prosecutors in a different…
MIT Professor Allegedly Hid Extensive Ties to Chinese Regime: DOJ
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor allegedly concealed his extensive ties to groups connected to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in a federal grant application, it was announced by the Justice Department on Thursday. Dr. Gang Chen, 56, was charged in a criminal complaint with making false statements on a tax return, wire fraud,…
MIT Professor Accused by US of Hiding Extensive Ties to Chinese Regime
A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been accused of failing to disclose his work for groups connected to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) while he was accepting grant money from U.S. agencies, the Justice Department said on Jan. 14. Gang Chen, 56, was charged in a criminal complaint with making false statements…
Justice Department Warns ‘National Security Equities’ Allegedly Stolen From Capitol
A U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) official said that “national security equities” allegedly may have been among records stolen from the Capitol on Wednesday when demonstrators stormed inside, with looters entering several congressional offices. Michael Sherwin, the acting U.S. attorney for Washington D.C., said that it will likely take “several days to flesh out exactly…
DOJ Employee Email Accounts Accessed by SolarWinds Hackers
The Justice Department confirmed Wednesday that its employees’ email accounts had been accessed by the hackers who broke into software company SolarWinds. The department discovered the breach on Dec. 24, 2020, and has eliminated the identified method by which the hackers had accessed its Microsoft Office 365 email environment, spokesperson Marc Raimondi said in a…
DOJ: Ohio Property Was Obtained With Funds Misappropriated From Ukrainian Bank
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a civil forfeiture complaint alleging that commercial property in Ohio was acquired by misappropriated funds from PrivatBank, a Ukrainian bank, as part of a loan scheme. Three DOJ complaints filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida alleged that PrivatBank’s owners, Ihor Kolomoisky and Gennadiy Boholiubov, “embezzled…
DOJ Ready to Prosecute Terrorist Who Killed Wall Street Journal Reporter
The U.S. Department of Justice is ready to prosecute the British terrorist who took part in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, according to Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen. Pakistani police arrested Omar Sheikh in 2002 in connection to the abduction of Pearl. He was sentenced to death the same year, but…
Trump Criticizes DOJ, FBI
President Trump is criticizing the Department of Justice, including the FBI. He says they’ve done nothing about the alleged voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, despite the evidence. From NTD News
What Else Did US Attorney Jeff Jensen Find That We Don’t Know About Yet?
Commentary On Dec. 17, news broke that U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, Jeffrey Jensen, had resigned and was leaving the Department of Justice (DOJ) to go into private practice. Jensen had been in the national news several times this year due to playing a pivotal role in the retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn…
Operation Legend Leads to Over 6,000 Arrests, Including 467 for Murder: DOJ
Outgoing Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday gave his last update on Operation Legend, a Trump administration initiative to drive down violent crime in major inner cities, saying that the program had led to over 6,000 arrests since its launch earlier this year. The operation was launched in Kansas City, Missouri, in July and has since been…
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