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Former DOJ Attorney Sentenced To 30 Months In Prison For Obstruction Of Justice And Interstate Transportation Of Stolen Property
CFEG reports that on March 17, 2018, a former Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney was sentenced to 30 months in prison for obstruction of justice and transportation of stolen property. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-doj-attorney-pleads-guilty-obstruction-justice-and-interstate-transportation According to the Department of Justice announcement the former DOJ attorney abused his position for personal gain and violated…
Posted under: Criminal Behavior and Misconduct Within the Department of Justice and FBI
Potentially tens of thousands’ of cases gone wrong
In July 2013, the FBI admitted that the foundations of what it called “hair comparison evidence” – a technique that its agents had used in hundreds of criminal cases nationwide and spread through the training of state-based detectives potentially through tens of thousands of other cases – were scientifically invalid….
Posted under: Criminal Behavior and Misconduct Within the Department of Justice and FBI
Thirty years in jail for a single hair: the FBI’s ‘mass disaster’ of false conviction
In 2013, the FBI admitted that the foundations of what it called ‘hair comparison evidence’ were scientifically invalid. Photograph: Sarah Lee George Perrot has spent almost 30 years in prison thanks to a single hair. It was discovered by an FBI agent on the bedsheet of a 78-year-old woman who…
Posted under: Criminal Behavior and Misconduct Within the Department of Justice and FBI
FBI lawyer under criminal investigation altered document to say Carter Page ‘was not a source’ for another agency
The FBI became close to correcting a mistake in the third and final warrant application renewal targeting onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, but an FBI lawyer improperly altered a document to cover up that the bureau had erred in the previous filings. In a report released on Monday, Justice…
FBI’s Wray Acts Fast to Make Changes After Scathing Report
WASHINGTON—FBI Director Christopher Wray has ordered more than 40 changes in how the bureau seeks secret surveillance warrants and handles other matters after the Justice Department inspector general pointed out a series of flaws in the bureau’s efforts to monitor a former Trump campaign adviser. The problems were so severe, national security…
Posted under: Criminal Behavior and Misconduct Within the Department of Justice and FBI, Fraud, Waste and Abuse
Justice Department Accused of Abusing Process to Extend Statute of Limitations
Justice Department lawyers have improperly used requests for overseas evidence to buy more time to bring some fraud cases, a memo filed with the agency’s internal watchdog alleges. The document, filed Friday and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, accuses prosecutors of sending such a request to the U.K. when…
