The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/u-s-department-of-justice/)
A Justice Department inquiry launched more than two years ago to mollify conservatives clamoring for more investigations of Hillary Clinton has effectively ended with no tangible results. Conservatives are likely to be unhappy about the probe.
Rod Rosenstein, the high-profile former deputy attorney general who oversaw special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, is joining King & Spalding LLP, a law firm that is home to several other former senior law-enforcement officials.
Attorney General William Barr announced the new effort in Detroit, which will get more federal law enforcement aid along with Albuquerque, Baltimore, Cleveland, Kansas City, Memphis and Milwaukee.
“Basic and fundamental” FBI errors cited by the Justice Department’s inspector general report on the Russia investigation raise questions about the accuracy of more than 1,000 annual wiretap applications under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Attorney General William Barr said the FBI opened the Russia probe without good reason, pursued it after it collapsed and might have acted in bad faith. A former DOJ official said he was “eroding public confidence in the bureau.”
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz is expected to clear the FBI of partisan bias in the Russia investigation but to criticize the bureau for systemic failures in handling surveillance applications.
Attorney General William Barr spoke after two corrections officers were accused of sleeping and browsing the internet shopping for furniture and motorcycles instead of watching Jeffrey Epstein, who was supposed to be checked on every 30 minutes.
BuzzFeed News identifies a former employee accused of harassing five women in his chain of command as Edison Aponte, formerly associate deputy director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance.
Most of the money goes to 6,000 local service programs, including children’s advocacy centers, domestic violence shelters, rape crisis centers, human trafficking and elder abuse programs, civil legal services and crime victims’ rights enforcement.
The Justice Department will let police officers wear body cameras during some joint operations with federal agents, lifting a ban that had long frustrated local agencies,