Department of Justice

The Department of Justice fired multiple immigration judges on Friday, according to two sources familiar with the decision and a statement from one of the judges on LinkedIn.

Danielle Sassoon, a Republican who was interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced her resignation in an email to her staff after being ordered by the Justice Department to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

The White House terminated multiple U.S. attorneys on Wednesday evening amid a period of upheaval at the Justice Department initiated by President Donald Trump.

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the Trump administration sued the state of New York due to policies that are blocking federal authorities from enforcing immigration laws.

The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee has sent a letter to the Justice Department Inspector General accusing Kash Patel, President Trump’s pick for FBI director, of secretly orchestrating the firings of FBI officials.

A top Justice Department official accused the FBI’s acting leaders of “insubordination” in a Wednesday memo in which he sought to soothe anxiety inside the bureau over the potential for a broad purge of agents involved in investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Two lawsuits filed Tuesday on behalf of anonymous agents demand an immediate halt to the collection and potential dissemination of names of investigators who participated in probes of the Jan. 6, 2021 riot

Merrick Garland had agreed not to make the special counsel’s findings in the classified documents investigation public while the DOJ appealed a judge’s dismissal of the case.

The Justice Department said Monday that it fired several career lawyers involved in prosecuting Donald Trump.

The DOJ employees had been involved in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation that led to Trump’s classified documents and Jan. 6 cases.

The outgoing attorney general also emphasized the importance of the independence of his agency.

The American Express settlement follows recent agreements by Mastercard and Block to settle claims from prosecutors or regulators.

The lawsuit accuses the landlords of sharing sensitive data on rents and occupancy with competing firms via email, phone calls or in groups.

The Minneapolis City Council has approved an agreement with the federal government to overhaul police training and use-of-force policies in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.

More than 40,000 victims lost billions of dollars to Bernie Madoff, whose Ponzi scheme has been called the largest in the world.

The Justice Department has unsealed a civil complaint alleging CVS Pharmacy Inc. and various subsidiaries filled unlawful prescriptions in violation of the federal Controlled Substances Act.

A former top partner at McKinsey has also agreed to plead guilty to obstruction of justice in the federal probe, according to court filings Friday

Here are five things to know about former federal prosecutor Kash Patel.

Jack Smith’s office had been evaluating the best path for winding down its work on two federal criminal cases against President-elect Donald Trump.

Iran’s government directed three people to “target our citizens, including President-elect Trump, on U.S. soil and abroad,” the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York alleged.