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Jerry Seper

jseper@washingtontimes.com

Jerry Seper was a writer for The Washington Times.

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Lawmaker calls for review Justice’s of Civil Rights Division

The chairman of a House subcommittee that funds the Justice Department wants Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to call for an independent review of the department's Civil Rights Division in the wake of a government report that documented widespread abuses within the division.

March 27, 2013
** FILE ** Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican (Associated Press)

Grassley: Why were ‘racist’ acts tolerated at Justice Department?

A senior Republican in Congress said Wednesday that he wants to know why Justice Department employees whose "hostile, racist and inappropriate behavior" was documented in a new report — including one who admitted lying to the department's office of inspector general — are still employed.

March 13, 2013
Edwin “Boo” Barcus Jr. faces 20 years to life in prison when he is sentenced June 7 for running a commercial sex business that prostituted juvenile girls in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.

Ga. man admits to charges of prostituting teen girls

A 27-year-old Georgia man, described by federal prosecutors as the ringleader of a sex business that prostituted juvenile girls in Virginia, Maryland and four Southeastern states, pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Alexandria to engaging in a child exploitation enterprise.

March 11, 2013
**FILE** Suspected members of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel hold Mario Gonzalez hostage before murdering him in October 2010.

Mexican drug kingpin federally indicted in Va.

A man the U.S. government has identified as a narcotics kingpin and top lieutenant in the Sinaloa drug cartel has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Virginia, accused of helping deal more than $280 million in drugs.

March 8, 2013
**FILE** Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano briefs reporters at the White House on Feb. 25, 2013. (Associated Press)

GOP Sen. Cornyn rips Napolitano for releasing detainees

A senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary committee on Friday called into question the leadership abilities of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, expressing "outrage" at what he called the department's questionable response to sequestration — including the release of detainees from detention centers across the country.

March 8, 2013

Md. men sentenced in $16M loan scheme

Two Maryland men have been sentenced to prison in a scheme to steal nearly $16 million from a Virginia residential property management company, U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride in the Eastern District of Virginia and FBI Assistant Director Valerie Parlave, who heads the bureau's Washington field office, said Friday.

March 8, 2013
Electrical engineer Shane Todd was said by police in Singapore to have hanged himself, but the U.S. citizen’s father believes he was murdered. (Provided by the Todd Family)

‘Suicide’ of American engineer in Singapore questioned

The mysterious death by hanging of a 31-year-old U.S. citizen in Singapore has his family asking questions over what it has described as the many discrepancies in how, where and why the young electrical engineer died, and has raised questions for authorities in two countries.

March 3, 2013

Ex-USAID contractor, wife sentenced in $1 million embezzlement

A former deputy director at a private contractor that did business with the U.S. Agency for International Development was sentenced Friday to 51 months in prison in the embezzlement of more than $1 million from a program meant to address global health problems.

March 1, 2013
**FILE** U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride. (Associated Press)

MS-13 gang member gets 10 years in sex-trafficking case

Federal prosecutors in Virginia continue to target the violent street gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, the latest focus of a gang task force being a 21-year-old Maryland man who pleaded guilty Friday to sex-trafficking charges.

March 1, 2013

Conviction of woman in Maryland concludes four-year drug probe

The murder conviction this week in federal court in Baltimore of a Jamaican woman brought to a close a four-year undercover investigation that targeted a brutal criminal gang responsible for the distribution of millions of dollars worth of drugs in five states, including Maryland.

February 21, 2013
Former Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr. arrives at the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington on Wednesday. He pleaded guilty to misusing more than $750,000 in campaign funds and is scheduled to be sentenced on June 28. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Jesse Jackson Jr. pleads guilty to misusing campaign cash

Former Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr. pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in Washington, D.C., to misusing more than $750,000 in campaign cash, tearfully telling a judge he used the money to pay off restaurant and nightclub tabs, and for personal expenditures at sports clubs and expensive lounges.

February 20, 2013

ICE alleges imported honey scam

Five persons and two domestic honey-processing companies were charged Wednesday in a federal probe targeting a multimillion dollar smuggling operation bringing Chinese-origin honey into the United States.

February 20, 2013