Jeff Mordock

Adam Schiff, Jerrold Nadler condemn elevating John Durham’s Russia probe into criminal investigation

Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Adam B. Schiff late Thursday condemned the Justice Department for transforming its Russian probe review into a criminal investigation.

October 25, 2019

John Demers, a top DOJ official, calls for public-private partnership to battle Chinese espionage

The Justice Department's top national security official on Thursday called for a partnership between law enforcement and private businesses to battle Chinese corporate espionage.

October 24, 2019

Judge Christopher Cooper orders State Department to begin releasing Ukraine documents

The State Department has 30 days to release documents related to the administration's actions on Ukraine, including communications between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Trump's personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

October 23, 2019

Justice Department launches initiative to prevent mass shootings

Attorney General William P. Barr on Wednesday announced a new initiative to prevent mass shootings through early intervention and mental health treatment of potentially violent individuals.

October 23, 2019

Ex-Nunes staffer pitched Ukraine conspiracy theories to Trump: Report

A longtime staffer of Devin Nunes presented President Trump with unverified conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 presidential election, according to a report Wednesday.

October 23, 2019

Democratic senators demand AG Barr, DOJ turn over Ukraine, Giuliani records

Three Democratic senators on Wednesday demanded the Justice Department release documents related to Ukraine and potential investigations in the Biden family.

October 23, 2019

Republicans storm secure room, demanding more access to impeachment inquiry proceedings

House Republicans on Wednesday stormed the secure room where lawmakers have been conducting the impeachment probe against President Trump, upending a scheduled deposition as they demanded fairness from the Democrats running the show.

October 23, 2019

Scott B. MacKenzie, Republican operative, pleads guilty in scheme to defraud PAC donors

A Republican operative pleaded guilty Tuesday for his role in a collection of political action committees that prosecutors say defrauded donors.

October 22, 2019

U.S. prosecutes more Chinese on intellectual property theft charges

A federal judge last week sentenced a Chinese national to nearly four years in prison for trying to steal U.S. space technology, the latest corporate spy snared by an FBI that has ramped up protection of American businesses amid President Trump's trade war with Beijing.

October 21, 2019

Federal judge nixes DOJ plan to show ‘Godfather’ clip at Roger Stone trial

Federal prosecutors cannot show jurors a clip from "The Godfather Part II" during Roger Stone's criminal trial next month, a judge ruled Monday.

October 21, 2019

Justice Department proposes collecting DNA samples from detained migrants

The Justice Department announced Monday that it will require the Department of Homeland Security to collect DNA samples from the migrants it arrests, in a move that likely will add hundreds of thousands of names each year to the government's criminal databases.

October 21, 2019

DEA to collect vaping cartridges, devices on National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

The Drug Enforcement Administration for the first time will collect vaping devices and vaping cartridges on National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, as law enforcement joins health officials alarmed by a spate of apparent vaping-related deaths.

October 20, 2019

Prosecutors, Roger Stone’s attorneys spar over Godfather clip ahead of trial

The Department of Justice and Roger Stone's attorneys are sparring over whether federal prosecutors can show a clip from "The Godfather: Part II" at the longtime Republican political operative's trial next month.

October 18, 2019

38 people cited for violations in Clinton email probe

A State Department investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server found hundreds of security violations and determined that at least 38 people were "culpable," according to a report released Friday.

October 18, 2019

Mulvaney press conference made things ‘much, much worse’ for Trump, Democrats say

Democrats on Thursday said acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney's admission that President Trump held up aid money to Ukraine in relation to starting an investigation of whether foreign nations helped Democrats in the 2016 election is a grave new development for the impeachment inquiry.

October 17, 2019

Mick Mulvaney, White House chief of staff, ties Ukraine money to 2016 probe

Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney acknowledged Thursday that the Trump administration withheld military aid from Ukraine to force a corruption investigation, which for Democrats was tantalizingly close to confirming the allegation at the core of their impeachment inquiry.

October 17, 2019

Gordon Sondland to tell lawmakers Trump directed Giuliani to push Ukraine to investigate the Bidens

U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland turned on President Trump when he appeared Thursday at the House Democrats' impeachment inquiry, saying he objected to the involvement of the president's personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, in Ukraine.

October 17, 2019

Elijah Cummings, House Oversight chairman, dies at 68

Elijah E. Cummings, the longtime Baltimore congressman who was a key Democratic figure in the impeachment inquiry against President Trump, died Thursday. He was 68.

October 17, 2019

Hillary Clinton praises impeachment inquiry witnesses as ‘gutsy women’

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lavished praise on two former State Department employees who testified before the House impeachment inquiry as "gutsy women."

October 16, 2019

Child porn site taken down in international ‘watershed’ effort: 337 arrested

A coalition of international law enforcement agencies dismantled the world's largest child pornography marketplace, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.

October 16, 2019