'Fast and Furious' 'straw buyer' gets 57-month term
The man who bought two semi-automatic assault rifles found at the scene of the fatal 2010 shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Phoenix to 57...
View ArticleEx-border officer, 3 others, plead guity to bribery, smuggling charges
A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer, his girlfriend and two of their associates pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to a multiyear scheme along the U.S.-Mexico border in...
View ArticleFamily seeks millions in Fast and Furious lawsuit
The family of slain U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry have filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), claiming the failure of officials within the...
View ArticleGrassley rips Justice Department for handling of HSBC officials
The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee has described as "inexcusable" a decision by the Justice Department to forego any criminal prosecution of HSBC officials in an elaborate...
View ArticleIssa: 'Real accountability' for Fast and Furious is happening
Two years after weapons found at the site of the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent were traced to the failed Fast and Furious gunrunning investigation, a senior House Republican who led committee...
View ArticleBorder Patrol stops translating Spanish for other police
The U.S. Border Patrol's required proficiency in Spanish historically has made the agency a vital link to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in need of language translation assistance,...
View ArticleNancy Lanza kept guns for protection
Kingston, N.H., Police Chief Donald Briggs Jr. knew Nancy Champion Lanza from high school and worked with her brother, James Champion, a longtime Kingston police officer who retired in 2011 as a...
View ArticleReport: Justice's pardon attorney misadvised White House on clemency bid
The Justice Department's pardon attorney inaccurately advised the White House regarding the clemency bid of a first-time drug offender sentenced in 1993 to three life terms in a drug case in which he...
View ArticleFederal judge to consider BP plea agreement in Gulf oil spill
A federal judge on Tuesday scheduled a hearing for Jan. 29 in New Orleans to consider a plea agreement by BP Exploration and Production Inc. in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in which the company...
View ArticleHouse Dems call for dismissal of contempt lawsuit against Holder over Fast...
The ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform filed an amicus brief Wednesday asking for dismissal of the contempt lawsuit brought by House Republicans against Attorney...
View ArticleJustice IG: Marshals Service oversight of more than $521M lacking
An audit by the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General on Wednesday challenged oversight by the U.S. Marshals Service of more than $521 million in purchases during a two-year period, saying...
View ArticleUBS to plead guilty to fraud for interest-rate rigging
UBS Securities Japan, a subsidiary of the multinational financial institution UBS AG, agreed on Wednesday to plead guilty to charges of felony wire fraud in a scheme to manipulate the London Interbank...
View ArticleMexico threatened with travel boycott until veteran freed
A Republican congressman Thursday threatened Mexico with a travel boycott until a former Marine who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan is released from prison after his arrest by Mexican authorities for...
View ArticleChinese subsidiary exec of U.S. firm sentenced for illegal export to Pakistan
A former managing director of PPG Paints Trading Co. in Shanghai, a wholly-owned Chinese subsidiary of U.S.-based PPG Industries was sentenced Thursday to a year in prison for conspiring to illegally...
View ArticleMexico to free veteran nabbed on questionable gun charge
A former U.S. Marine who saw combat in both Iraq and Afghanistan was scheduled Friday for release from a prison in Mexico where he has been held without action since August on a questionable gun...
View ArticleVictory Pharma to pay $11.4 million in kickback probe
Victory Pharma Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company headquartered in San Diego, agreed Thursday to pay $11.4 million to resolve federal civil and criminal liability arising from its marketing of...
View ArticleCaddell Construction to pay $2M to resolve fraud violations
A major commercial and industrial construction contractor has agreed to pay the government a $2 million penalty to resolve criminal fraud violations arising from the firm's intentional overstating of...
View ArticleSpecial provisions allow Fast and Furious gunrunning lawsuit to continue
Rep. Darrell E. Issa, California Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, praised on Friday the inclusion of special provisions in the proposed 113th Congress...
View ArticleFBI agents endorse bill authorizing feds to help investigate mass killings
The FBI Agents Association announced its support Wednesday for a bill passed by Congress that authorizes federal officials to help local authorities respond to mass shootings or other violent crimes in...
View ArticleTransocean agrees to pay $1.4B for Gulf spill
Transocean Deepwater Inc. agreed Thursday in federal court to plead guilty to violating the Clean Water Act and pay $1.4 billion in civil and criminal fines and penalties for its conduct in the 2010...
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