Today’s New York Times digs deeper into the GOP red herring: Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court records and interviews. Although Republican activists have repeatedly said fraud is so […]
(updated and bumped) The Muckraker has uncovered a gem from the DOJ document dump: Four months after the San Diego United States Attorney’s office launched an investigation into whether he had accepted bribes from defense contractors, and little more than a month before he pled guilty to those charges, Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-CA) signed on […]
The White House will stop at nothing until they get all the federal prosecutors replaced with their political buddies: A United States attorney in Arkansas who was dismissed from his job last year by the Justice Department was ousted after Harriet E. Miers, the former White House counsel, intervened on behalf of the man who […]
n 2002, Michael Abramoff was being investigated by an acting United States attorney, Frederick Black, in Guam for some typical shady business dealings. Mr. Black was quickly demoted as President Bush appointed a prosecutor to Guam. New York Times is reporting today that there is now an investigation underway by the Department of Justice and […]
It seems Bill Frist’s sudden selling of stock in his families medical company has drawn attention from the United States Attorney’s office in New York. From the Associated Press: HCA subpoenaed, may involve Senate leader HCA Inc.,HCA.N operator of the largest chain of U.S. hospitals, said it received a subpoena from the U.S. attorney for […]
While much hasn’t been coming out of the inquiry into who leaked Valerie Plame’s identity to Robert Novak, the press is keeping the story alive. Yesterday, the LA Times published a time line and very in depth look into the entire case and what we know now. Today Murray Waas has an excellent piece in […]