Tag Archives: DOJ

NBC News reports: A New Jersey man who wore a throwback Philadelphia Eagles beanie to the Jan. 6 riot was arrested by the FBI this week after online “sedition hunters” identified him with the help of facial recognition and Facebook photos from a 2020 family trip to the pumpkin patch. Lee Giobbie, a 40-year-old financial adviser from Eastampton, New Jersey, …

From the Justice Department: eBay Inc., an e-commerce company headquartered in San Jose, California, has agreed to pay $59 million and to enhance its compliance program to resolve allegations that it violated the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) in connection with thousands of pill presses and encapsulating machines that were sold through its website. Pill presses and encapsulating machines can be …

From the Justice Department: An Ohio man was sentenced to 216 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for attempting to burn down a church because of its support for the LGBTQ+ community. Aimenn D. Penny, 20, of Alliance, Ohio, was arrested and charged last year with one count of violating the Church Arson Prevention Act, one …

Axios reports: Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) said Tuesday she is facing investigations by the Justice Department, Federal Election Commission and House Ethics Committee into the alleged misuse of campaign funds for personal security. Bush denied that she has used official congressional funds to pay for security, saying she has “used campaign funds as permissible to retain security services.” She also …

Politico reports: Attorney General Merrick Garland will be out of commission this weekend due to back surgery and is going out of his way to make sure that there are no doubts about who will be in charge during his absence. The unusual, early announcement by the Biden administration’s top law enforcement officer is intended to avoid the storm of …

The Washington Post reports: A British resident accused of using the dark web to sell illicit drugs around the world has agreed to surrender bitcoin valued at hundreds of millions in what officials said is believed to be the largest seizure of cryptocurrency in the history of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Banmeet Singh, 40, who was extradited from the United …

Politico reports: Prosecutors say the FBI discovered an assault rifle and 73 rounds of ammunition in a Jan. 6 defendant’s closet — even though he had been barred from owning firearms as a result of a 2005 conviction for shooting an Iraqi civilian in the head. Justice Department officials pointed to the discovery Wednesday in a bid to immediately lock …

Reuters reports: Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro will be sentenced in Washington federal court on Thursday for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Federal prosecutors are seeking six months in prison for Navarro, writing in a court papers that he “chose allegiance to former President …

Politico reports: Prosecutors say Peter Navarro — a former trade adviser to Donald Trump — should go to jail for six months and pay a $200,000 fine for defying a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 select committee. “The Defendant chose allegiance to former President Donald Trump over the rule of law,” argued Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Aloi in a …

The Texas Tribune reports: The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday released a withering report into the hundreds of Texas law enforcement officers’ fumbled response to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting, finding “cascading failures of leadership, decision-making, tactics, policy and training.” The long-anticipated 575-page report detailed the many failures of the May 24, 2022 response, but concluded the most significant …

The Associated Press reports: Federal prosecutors said Friday that they will seek the death penalty against a white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket. Payton Gendron, 20, is already serving a sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole after he pleaded guilty to state charges of murder and hate-motivated domestic terrorism in the …

The Associated Press reports: A Montana fire chief who lost a previous job over a COVID-19 vaccine mandate has been charged with spraying a chemical irritant on police officers during the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Prosecutors say that Frank Dahlquist sprayed “an orange-colored chemical agent” directly into the face of one officer and later sprayed …

Washington DC’s CBS affiliate reports: A Florida man whose younger half-brother was convicted last year of participating in the Capitol riot was arrested Wednesday for allegedly assaulting police on Jan. 6. David Kennedy Homol, 55, of Umatilla, Florida, faces felony charges of obstruction of an official proceeding, civil disorder and assaulting, resisting or impeding police. According to charging documents, investigators …

NBC News reports: A man targeted by right-wing conspiracy theories about the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced on Tuesday to a year of probation but no jail time for joining the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by a mob of fellow Donald Trump supporters. Ray Epps, who was driven into hiding by death threats, pleaded guilty in September to a misdemeanor …

NBC News reports: Special counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing the prosecution of former President Donald Trump in two federal cases, was the target of an attempted swatting at his Maryland residence on Christmas Day. According to two law enforcement sources, someone called 911 and said that Smith had shot his wife at the address where Smith lives. Montgomery County …

Via press release from the Justice Department: Saturday, January 6, 2024, marks three years – or 36 months – since the attack on the U.S. Capitol that disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the process of affirming the presidential election results. The government continues to investigate losses that resulted from the breach of the Capitol, including damage …

From the Justice Department: Jonathan G. Mellis, 35, of Williamsburg, Virginia, was sentenced to 51 months in prison, 36 months of supervised release, and ordered to pay $20,000 in fines by U.S. District Judge Randolph D. Moss. Mellis pleaded guilty to one count of assaulting, resisting, and impeding certain officers on June 12, 2023. According to court documents, Mellis traveled …

CBS News reports: The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Texas over the state’s implementation of a new immigration law allowing state and local law enforcement officials to arrest, jail and prosecute migrants who may have entered the U.S. illegally. The Biden administration warned Texas that it would file a suit if Texas didn’t assure federal officials by Wednesday …

The Huffington Post reports: Special counsel Jack Smith’s office said democracy is threatened by former President Donald Trump’s claims that presidential immunity shields him from criminal prosecution after leaving the White House. In a Saturday court filing, Smith’s office carefully dissected Trump’s plea to the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which asked for the federal …

The Messenger reports: A federal judge on Friday approved Special Jack Smith’s request to start prepping written jury questionnaires ahead of next year’s scheduled trial of Donald Trump in the Florida classified documents case. In a paperless order, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon ordered the two parties, by Feb. 28, to “meaningfully confer and file a joint jury questionnaire for …