All correspondence with Kim was seized along with two additional days of personal correspondence. Fox News also claimed the Justice Department seized several phone records, including one listed as Rosen's parents.
Attorney 's Office for the District of Columbia released a statement on May 22, , denying the use of wiretaps on phones and the seizure of any computer records of any news organization. On May 10, , news broke that various branches of the Internal Revenue Service had specifically targeted conservative groups' applications for tax-exempt status. It began during the tea party surge in The agency was separating tax-exempt applications by searching for political terms such as "tea party" and "patriot.
The flagging continued, however, when the criteria was changed in January to look out for groups educating on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The targeting included allegations that tea party groups were forced to provide information not asked of other tax exempt groups.
Examples of this were requests for donor information, Facebook posts, resumes and political intentions of group officials and connections to other groups.
Testifying on May 15, Holder promised a criminal investigation spearheaded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and federal prosecutors into the Cincinnati office that were blamed for the extra attention paid to conservative organizations, but he made it clear that the investigation would span more than just the Cincinnati office, in order to find out where the "enforcement gaps" in the IRS's policies lie.
Holder also added that groups paying for legal representation during the controversy would be reimbursed for legal costs. He still testified at the hearings the next day. In January , the FBI announced no criminal charges would be filed over the IRS targeting scandal unless new evidence came to light. Fourteen committee Democrats voted against sending the letter with Rep. Sandy Levin stating the intention of the letter was to "declare this a scandal and keep it going until November.
On May 7, , the U. House voted to hold Lerner in contempt of Congress due to her refusal to answer questions during her hearing. The criminal contempt charge carried a jail sentence and fine, but the Justice Department had to first decide whether or not to pursue the charge.
If the department opted not to pursue the charge, the House could have brought up a civil suit demanding Lerner to testify or face time in jail. Lerner would have not necessarily been forced to testify if the criminal charge was pursued. The files, announced by the committee on June 9, , were to be used by the FBI to investigate the political activity of the tax-exempt organizations. Darrell Issa R-Calif. We were astonished to learn days ago from the Justice Department that these 21 disks contained confidential taxpayer information protected by federal law.
Republican representatives are looking into whether any wrongdoing occurred. Koskinen promised all documentation from Lerner would be handed over for investigation, but it was revealed in a letter that emails from that period could not be found. Chairman Dave Camp R-Mich. It is clear that is wholly insufficient when it comes to determining the full scope of the violation of taxpayer rights.
If there is no smidgeon of corruption what is the Administration hiding? The guns were to be tracked, allowing the ATF to halt drug trafficking and catch the traffickers along the U. The operation was part of an overarching border patrol initiative, Project Gunrunner, run by the U. Department of Justice "to combat Mexico-based trafficking groups. A total of 34 trafficking suspects were indicted. On December 14, , about a month before the end of Operation Fast and Furious, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed in Arizona and two guns from the operation were found near his body.
Holder testified before Congress on May 3, , stating he, "probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks. Chuck Grassley and Darrell Issa led the investigations into the scandal, and subpoenas were issued to the Justice Department on October 12, , in order to secure documents between the White House and the Justice Department regarding Operation Fast and Furious. On June 20, , President Barack Obama used his executive privilege over documents sought by the congressional investigative committee, saving Holder from possible charges in the investigation.
On June 28, , the House voted to hold Holder in contempt for failure to disclose the documents. The House Oversight Committee filed a civil lawsuit over the documents on August 13, Holder requested an immediate appeal, which was turned down November 18, As Deputy Attorney General at the end of the Clinton administration in , Holder played a part in the presidential pardon of Marc Rich, a fugitive of 17 years.
Rich was charged with defrauding the IRS, mail fraud, tax evasion, racketeering, defrauding the Treasury and trading with the enemy. It was reported that Holder provided President Bill Clinton with a favorable assessment on Rich's pardon, surprising the United States attorney in New York who was charged with prosecuting the case. Based on executive branch financial disclosure forms and calculations made available by OpenSecrets.
The budget request suggested 9, attorneys be staffed by the Department of Justice. The budget request suggested "over 12," attorneys be staffed by the Department of Justice. The budget request suggested "nearly 11," attorneys be staffed by the Department of Justice. Note: Please contact us if the personal information below requires an update. Holder is married to Sharon Malone.
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The unprecedented agreement marks the first time an Israeli bank has admitted to such criminal conduct which spanned for over a ten year period. Additional enforcement efforts by the Department and its law enforcement partners have resulted in:. Participation by over 50, taxpayers to enter voluntary disclosure programs, resulting in the IRS collecting more than 7 billion dollars in taxes, interest and penalties.
Criminal charges against bankers, attorneys, investment advisors and account holders in connection with activities conducted by banks located in Switzerland, India, Israel and the Caribbean. The Department has protected billions of dollars claimed in abusive tax claims. In February , the district court determined that the transactions engaged in by Dow Chemical Company through a partnership known as Chemtech lacked economic substance and that the Chemtech partnership should be disregarded because it had no purpose other than to create tax benefits.
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Woods Sup. The Woods decision has favorably impacted several other tax shelter cases pending in various appellate courts. The Department has saved taxpayers dollars by being more cost efficient.
The Department has found record efficiencies in its budget and operations. The Department has aggressively prosecuted child exploitation and pornography. Since , the Department and its federal partners have conducted more than two dozen global operations targeting organized online groups and more than 5, U.
These international online collectives were thriving marketplaces for the exchange of child pornography and presented a substantial risk to children because membership, communication and hierarchy in the groups incentivized the production of child pornography and encouraged the sexual abuse of children.
These operations resulted in safety for numerous child abuse victims who had been suffering at the hands of offenders and whose abuse only stopped upon the arrest and prosecution of their abusers. These efforts include:. The Department has launched initiatives to provide counsel to certain populations in immigration proceedings. In April , the Department announced, in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security, a nationwide policy for unrepresented immigration detainees with serious mental disorders that may render them mentally incompetent to represent themselves in immigration proceedings.
The policy entails implementation of new procedural protections for certain such detainees, including competency inquiries, forensic competency evaluations, and bond hearings. In addition, EOIR will make available a Qualified Representative to unrepresented detainees who are deemed mentally incompetent to represent themselves in immigration proceedings.
The Department has charged a record number of human trafficking cases. Over the past five years, Fiscal Years , the Department has charged a record number of human trafficking cases, involving forced labor, international sex trafficking, and sex trafficking of adults by force, fraud, and coercion.
In , the Department launched the Anti-Trafficking Coordination Team ACTeam Initiative, an interagency collaboration among the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security and Labor, to streamline federal criminal investigations and prosecutions of human trafficking offenses.
Following a competitive, interagency nationwide selection process, the Department and its law enforcement partners convened six Phase I Pilot ACTeams around the country. The Department has continued to expand its bilateral efforts to combat human trafficking networks operating across the U.
The Department has enforced the rights of people with disabilities to remain in their communities rather than be institutionalized. Hate Crimes Prevention Act to enhance hate crime prosecutions. In Fiscal Years and , the Department convicted the most defendants on hate crimes charges in more than a decade.
Hate Crimes Prevention Act has provided the Department with important tools to investigate and prosecute hate crimes. To date, the Department has trained thousands of federal and local law enforcement officials around the country to use the statute. So far:. The Department launched the Defending Childhood Initiative. As part of that initiative:.
The Department has made significant investments to keep young people and communities safe. In December , the Department approved an updated definition of rape that will lead to a more comprehensive statistical reporting of rape nationwide. The revised definition is more inclusive of rape acts against men and women, better reflects state criminal codes and focuses on many forms of sexual penetration understood to be "rape. The Department has made an unprecedented commitment to reducing violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women.
Significant progress has been made since then, including:. The Department continues to vigorously enforce the right of equal access to the ballot box. Since , the Department of Justice has closely monitored state laws that would significantly change how elections are conducted and has continued to ensure that state practices and procedures comply with federal law.
Expanding Equal Employment Opportunity in the Workplace. Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of , the Division can sue state and local government employers that discriminate on a basis of race, sex, religion, national origin or color. The Department has consistently defended the right for military personnel and their families as overseas civilians to vote. The Department launched the first-ever Access to Justice Initiative. Fifty years after the U. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Gideon v.
Wainwright , which held that every criminal defendant, regardless of income, is entitled to be represented by counsel, millions of Americans still struggle to access the legal services that they need and deserve. Under the leadership of Attorney General Holder, the Department and the Obama Administration have taken unprecedented steps to ensure that our legal system is accessible, effective and a model of integrity.
The Access to Justice Initiative, launched in March , has been engaging with a wide variety of new partners including state, local, tribal and federal officials, nonprofit organizations, researchers and experts from across the private sector.
Access to Justice has worked to:. The Department has spearheaded unprecedented efforts to reform police departments throughout the country to ensure constitutional police practices. Since , the Department has opened more than 20 investigations state and local law enforcement agencies regarding civil patterns or practices in violation of the Constitution or federal law; is enforcing 15 agreements and is involved in five pieces of litigation to ensure police accountability.
This is the largest number of law enforcement agencies being reviewed at any one time in the history of the Department. Also, since the COPS Office has engaged in Collaborative Reform for Technical Assistance Initiatives CRI-TA in six cities to improve trust between agencies and the communities they serve by providing a proactive, voluntary means to organizational transformation through an analysis of policies, practices, training, tactics, and accountability methods around a specific issue of concern.
The Department has protected tribal sovereignty, tribal lands and resources and tribal treaty rights. Over the past four years, the Department has continued to vigorously protect the rights and natural resources of federally recognized Indian tribes and their members and has defended against challenges to statutes and federal agency actions designed to protect tribal interests.
The Department has demonstrated its historic commitment to transparency. Upon taking office, President Obama issued a memorandum on the Freedom of Information Act FOIA which directed agencies to administer the Act "with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails. The Department has renewed its commitment to Environmental Justice. Over the past six years, the Department renewed its commitment to environmental justice, which is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations and policies.
As part of a settlement reached with Flint Hills Resourcesthe company agreed to cut harmful air pollution in an overburdened community in Port Arthur, Texas. Over the past several years, EPA has developed a regulatory program under the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change.
In , the Department obtained a groundbreaking victory in Coalition for Responsible Regulation v. The Department has filed a pending motion with the court of appeals seeking a favorable resolution of this case. Additionally, in an enforcement action against Hyundai-Kia , the Department resolved claims that the companies sold close to 1.
The Department has successfully defended two sets of important rules involving power plant emissions. In April , the Department obtained a victory in the D. Circuit to address the remaining challenges to this rule. The Department is assisting in efforts to increase production of renewable energy on public lands. In fiscal year , the Department continued its defense of lawsuits challenging permits and rights-of-way issued by federal agencies to promote the responsible development of renewable energy projects on, or adjacent to, public lands.
These projects have included wind, both on, and off-shore, and solar electric generation facilities and power transmission corridors to facilitate the distribution of renewable energy to the power grid. The vigorous defense of these lawsuits has allowed these projects to move forward enabling the delivery of cleaner energy to American homes and businesses while simultaneously spurring substantial economic activity.
Wildlife trafficking threatens security, hinders sustainable economic development, and threatens the rule of law. The illicit trade in wildlife is decimating many species worldwide and threatens iconic species such as rhinoceroses, elephants, and tigers with extinction. The Task Force issued an Implementation Plan on February 11, that builds upon the Strategy and provides a robust, focused roadmap of steps to achieve three objectives that are key to stopping this pernicious trade: strengthening domestic and global enforcement, reducing demand for illegally traded wildlife, and expanding international cooperation.
The Department has successfully prosecuted numerous cases of illicit wildlife smuggling involving trafficking of rhinoceros horns, elephant ivory, South African leopard, Asian and African tortoises and reptiles, and many other forms of protected wildlife and protected plant species. This operation has resulted in more than two dozen arrests thus far, with those convicted sentenced to significant terms of imprisonment and the forfeiture of millions in cash, gold bars, rhino horn and luxury items, and we are continuing to unravel the international, sophisticated criminal networks that are involved in these crimes.
You are here Home. Last Updated: March Return to Top. Protecting the American People from Violent and Other Crimes Violent crime rates have steadily declined in the last five years as the Department has successfully prosecuted national, international gangs and traditional organized crime groups. They were convicted of all the counts against them, including racketeering conspiracy and related offenses, as well as securities fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud, extortion, money laundering and obstruction of justice.
Two other defendants, William and John Maxwell, were also convicted for their role in taking over a Texas corporation so the LCN members and their cohorts could steal from the company and make lavish personal purchases. Since the beginning of , EOIR's Immigration Fraud Prevention Program has referred for investigation or provided support to federal and state authorities in dozens of civil and criminal cases involving the unauthorized practice of law, also known as notario fraud.
The department has since convened a NotarioTask Force, which includes representatives from across the agency and meets to take action against notario fraud. Castrellon and 34 others were indicted in March , having been charged as members and associates of Barrio Azteca, a violent, Juarez, Mexico transnational gang. The defendants were charged with RICO crimes related to murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to murder persons in a foreign country, narcotics trafficking, trafficking in stolen vehicles, kidnaping, obstruction of justice and money laundering.
Castrellon and others were charged with the March 13, murder in Juarez, Mexico of U. Consulate employee. Of the 35 defendants charged, 26 were convicted, one committed suicide before the conclusion of his trial, and six are awaiting extradition. Throughout and , the Department targeted the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas ABT with a series of indictments, including a defendant indictment in late The ABT was a powerful, race-based Texas state-wide organization operating inside and outside state and federal prisons throughout the State of Texas and the United States.
Through assault, murder and other acts of violence, ABT protected its criminal money-making enterprises, including narcotics trafficking, identity theft, counterfeiting, and check fraud, and also enforced internal discipline. These efforts culminated in the conviction of 73 ABT members and associates, on charges ranging from racketeering conspiracy, murder in aid of racketeering, narcotics trafficking, assault in aid of racketeering, firearms offenses, and obstruction of justice.
This investigation and prosecution was extremely successful, convicting every high ranking member of the ABT and all but dismantling the entire criminal network. Department prosecutors have vigorously prosecuted the most notorious national and international violent gangs operating in U. Arrested , fugitives and cleared 1,, felony warrants.
Arrested 27, homicide suspects. Arrested 29, gang members. Directed 22 targeted anti-gang initiatives that led to the arrest of 4, gang members. Arrested 4, international and foreign fugitives. Extradited 5, fugitives to face justice.
Arrested 86, fugitive sex offenders, closing , sex offender warrants. Initiated 19, Adam Walsh Act investigations. In November , the department reached the largest criminal resolution in U. In January , Transocean Deepwater Inc. Testimony is complete in the first and second phases of the civil trial against BP and other defendants.
On September 4, , the court ruled on the issues tried in phase one and concluded — among other things — that gross negligence and willful misconduct by BPXP resulted in the explosion and blowout at Macondo Well and Deepwater Horizon, as well as the discharge of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. On January 15, , the court ruled on phase 2 and found that 3. These two rulings established the maximum possible pentalty that the court can assess against BPXP or Anadarko.
Post-trial submissions to the court are scheduled to be completed by the end of April In a related action, U. The Department obtained court authorization for the FBI to provide victim information to Computer Emergency Response Teams CERTs around the world and to private industry partners in a position to assist victims in ridding their computers of the Gameover Zeus malware.
Protecting the Military Supply Chain through Prosecution of an Importer of Counterfeit Parts: In , the Department announced that Peter Picone, 41, of Methuen, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in federal court in Connecticut to importing thousands of counterfeit integrated circuits from China and Hong Kong and then reselling them to U. Navy for use in nuclear submarines. Prosecuting the Ringleaders of a Major Point-of-Sale Hacking Scheme: In , the Department completed the successful prosecutions of Adrian-Tiberiu Oprea, 29, of Constanta, Romania, and Iulian Dolan, 28, of Craiova, Romania, who were sentenced to serve 15 years and seven years in prison, respectively, for orchestrating an international, multimillion-dollar scheme to remotely hack into and steal payment card data from hundreds of U.
The defendants and their co-conspirators hacked into several hundred U. They stole payment card data belonging to more than , U. The case marked the first-ever extradition in a cybercrime case under the new extradition treaty with Romania. Disrupting and Prosecuting One of the Leading Online Copyright Piracy Enterprises: Federal law enforcement combined novel investigative techniques and superior advocacy skills to disrupt and prosecute the IMAGiNE group, the most far-reaching, prolific, and profitable groups illegally distributing copyrighted material on the Internet.
IMAGiNE was responsible for the dissemination of up to 40 percent of the English-language content available for illegal download — in all, tens of thousands of copies of hundreds of new motion picture releases.
The prosecution secured guilty pleas from the five leading members of the group and sentences ranging from 23 to 60 months. According to industry experts, the takedown of the IMAGiNE group produced an immediate and widespread disruption in illegal film-theft activity. The program also allowed awarded agencies to retain positions that were in jeopardy of being cut. The appropriation for COPS Hiring Grants funded 1, new law enforcement officer positions for a three-year grant term, plus saved jobs nearly lost to cuts.
To date, the COPS Office has funded the addition of more than , community policing officers across the country. Under the CHP program the COPS Office added the topic area of Trust Problems to assist with addressing issues of fairness and impartiality, transparency problems, respect problems, and other trust-related problems.
The Department has supported public safety partnerships that maximize resources and adopt evidence-based practices that are backed by data and research. The COPS Office has convened national leaders and experts around a wide range of critical law enforcement topics, including relationships between labor and management, body-worn cameras, policing the new economy and the implementation of procedural justice and values-based policing.
The Office has also convened leaders around efforts to strengthen relationships between law enforcement and communities of color. This convening function represents a powerful way to quickly assemble leading practitioners and thinkers to help identify crucial issues and make recommendations to the profession.
This training focuses on the presence of implicit biases linked to ethnicity and race, gender, social class, sexual orientation, religion, body shape, age, and so forth. The training makes personnel aware of their unconscious biases and gives them the skills to activate controlled responses to counteract them.
Holder has pleaded not guilty. He has less than four months to live. She works as a home health caregiver and as a driver for a ride-hailing service, meeting Holder when he was a paying passenger. Authorities have not revealed her name. An account of the events leading up to Nipsey Hussle's killing and those that followed, according to court transcripts and other records.
The store at the intersection of Crenshaw and Slauson is the center of neighborhood life. Hussle had recently bought the entire shopping center, where he once sold his mix CDs from the trunk of his car, planning to turn it into a mixed-use residential and commercial center. He spends nearly 30 minutes in the lot signing autographs, talking to old friends, taking selfies with fans, as he often did.
He never makes it inside the store. There is no evidence he intends to go there or knows Hussle will be there. As the woman is parking, she spots the rapper. Holder walks into a burger place in the complex, orders chili cheese fries, and steps outside to wait.
Hussle spots Holder. Villanueva had told Lathan he needed a lot more new clothes since he had been wearing the same things in the months since he was released on parole from prison for a murder conviction. Hussle had sent Lathan a care package after his release, as he did for many ex-convicts from his neighborhood as they re-entered the outside world.
Lathan had met Hussle once before and is pleased to see him. The talk lasts about four minutes. All who hear it say no voices were raised, and no one seems heated, antagonistic or angry. After taking a few bites of his fries, he stands up, takes out a 9 mm pistol, and loads it, she said.
She later said she had often seen him with guns before, but had never seen him load one, according to court documents.
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