The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/author/stephenh/)
Disgraced politician Rod Blagojevich, junk bond king Michael Milken and former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik are among the latest to be pardoned by President Donald Trump. The actions fit a pattern of personal presidential justice.
As President Donald Trump calls himself the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, Attorney General William Barr has told people close to Trump that he may resign over Trump’s tweets about Justice Department investigations.
There were 13,459 reported instances of stop-and-frisk for the year, up 22 percent from 11,008 in 2018. The police practice is an issue in the presidential campaign of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
A national association of federal judges called an emergency meeting Tuesday to address growing concerns about the intervention of Justice Department officials and President Donald Trump in politically sensitive cases.
The settlement two decades ago in lawsuits against major tobacco companies yielded $206 billion. The pending opioid cases may bring less than half that to cities, counties and others, experts say.
The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will waive federal contracting laws to allow 177 miles of wall to be built more quickly in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
A critic says, “They’re going into bankruptcy to hide … a Mount Everest in dirty secrets.”
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam seemed poised to make broad changes to state gun control laws, but was dealt a stinging blow by his own Democratic Party Monday when a committee blocked a bill that would have banned sales of assault weapons.
Nearly all of Kentucky’s 120 counties have adopted versions of “2A sanctuary resolutions,” joining an growing list of municipal governments in at least 20 other states spread across the U.S.
Reality Winner, an Air Force veteran who has been imprisoned for nearly three years for leaking a classified report on Russian hacking, has asked President Donald Trump for to commute the rest of the 63-month sentence she received in 2018.