Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter for Shohei Ohtani, has been charged with bank fraud for allegedly stealing more than $16 million from the MLB star to pay an illegal bookie. Ohtani claimed from the get-go he had no knowledge of Mizuhara’s alleged gambling addiction or that his money was being stolen, and the Department of Justice has confirmed that. The …
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The Biden administration’s Department of Justice sided with a Native American tribe in claiming a massive underground pipeline carrying fuel from Wisconsin to Canada is trespassing on tribal lands. In an amicus brief filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, DOJ lawyers agreed with the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians …
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FIRST ON FOX – A cohort of state attorneys general are warning the Justice Department against plans they claim Attorney General Merrick Garland signaled “intrude” on their states’ authority to carry out elections. Led by Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita of Indiana, the group of 16 GOP prosecutors wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday criticizing his comments from …
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EXCLUSIVE:Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson are demanding the FBI make Alexander Smirnov’s handling agent and his superiors available for interviews as they investigate what steps the bureau and the Justice Department took to investigate the now-infamous FD-1023 form alleging a criminal bribery scheme involving Joe Biden and Ukraine. Fox News Digital obtained a letter Grassley, R-Iowa, and Johnson, …
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U.S. District Court Judge Aileen M. Cannon on Tuesday relented to special counsel Jack Smith in a long-running dispute over the names of government witnesses in the classified documents case against former President Trump, agreeing to shield their identities from the public eye. Cannon only partially granted prosecutors’ request in agreeing to keep the names of FBI agents, Secret Service …
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The FBI has arrested an 18-year-old in Idaho after uncovering his “truly horrific” and “violent plot” to attack churches in Coeur d’Alene this past weekend on behalf of ISIS, the Justice Department says. Alexander Mercurio is now facing a federal charge of attempting to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization after the FBI says he …
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The Justice Department will not produce subpoenaed audio recordings of former Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interview with President Biden to House Republicans, putting Attorney General Merrick Garland at risk of being held in contempt of Congress. House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, have threatened to hold Garland in contempt of Congress …
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The Central Intelligence Agency is denying whistleblower claims that it “stonewalled” an IRS interview with Hunter Biden’s “sugar brother” Kevin Morris, saying the agency “did not prevent or seek to prevent IRS or DOJ from conducting any such interview.” A whistleblower approached House Republicans last month claiming that the CIA blocked an interview with Morris conducted by the IRS as …
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The federal judge presiding over former President Trump’s classified records case has denied his motion to dismiss the charges based on the Presidential Records Act. U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, last month, also dismissed Trump’s motion to dismiss charges of retaining classified documents on the grounds of “unconstitutional vagueness.” In a filing Thursday, Cannon denied the former president’s motion …
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Four anti-abortion protesters were found guilty of violating the FACE Act in federal court on Tuesday in the second round of pro-lifers charged with blocking the entrance to an abortion clinic three years ago. U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffery S. Frensley convicted the defendants of a misdemeanor violation of the federal law for blocking the entrance of the Carafem abortion clinic …
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