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Jerry Seper was a writer for The Washington Times.

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Kingston, N.H. Police Chief Donald Briggs Jr. speaks on his cellphone and relays information to members of the media at police headquarters in Kingston, N.H., Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012, as he talks with part-time Kingston Police Officer James Champion, brother of slain Nancy Lanza. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Nancy Lanza kept guns for protection

Kingston, N.H., Police Chief Donald Briggs Jr. knew Nancy Champion Lanza from high school and worked with her brother, James Champion, a longtime Kingston police officer who retired in 2011 as a captain.

December 17, 2012
** FILE ** Part of a cache of seized weapons is displayed Jan. 25, 2011, at a news conference in Phoenix. The ATF received fire over a Phoenix-based gun-trafficking investigation called "Fast and Furious," in which agents allowed hundreds of guns into the hands of straw purchasers in hopes of making a bigger case. Two of those weapons were found in December at the fatal shooting of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry. (Associated Press)

Family seeks millions in Fast and Furious lawsuit

The family of slain U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry have filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), claiming the failure of officials within the agency to properly oversee the Fast and Furious gunrunning operation led to the agent's death. The lawsuit seeks $25 million in compensation.

December 14, 2012
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Grassley rips Justice Department for handling of HSBC officials

The ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee has described as "inexcusable" a decision by the Justice Department to forego any criminal prosecution of HSBC officials in an elaborate conspiracy to launder millions in illegal cash.

December 14, 2012
**FILE** House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, California Republican, hears Sept. 20, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington from Inspector General Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department's internal watchdog, the day after he issued a report faulting the department for disregard of public safety in "Operation Fast and Furious," the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' program that allowed hundreds of guns to reach Mexican drug gangs. (Associated Press)

Issa: ‘Real accountability’ for Fast and Furious is happening

Two years after weapons found at the site of the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent were traced to the failed Fast and Furious gunrunning investigation, a senior House Republican who led committee hearings into the shooting and the operation says there has been "real accountability" for those whose actions contributed to the death and Justice Department officials who failed to properly oversee the operation.

December 14, 2012

Ex-border officer, 3 others, plead guity to bribery, smuggling charges

A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer, his girlfriend and two of their associates pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to a multiyear scheme along the U.S.-Mexico border in which he solicited hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and let nearly 200 illegal immigrants enter the U.S.

December 13, 2012
Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry (Associated Press)

‘Fast and Furious’ ‘straw buyer’ gets 57-month term

The man who bought two semi-automatic assault rifles found at the scene of the fatal 2010 shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Phoenix to 57 months in prison over his role in the botched Fast and Furious gun-running investigation.

December 12, 2012
A man walks past the Standard Chartered Bank building in Hong Kong in October 2010. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Standard Chartered Bank forfeits $227 million for violating U.S. sanctions laws

A London-based bank that provided wholesale banking services through branch offices in this country, primarily U.S.-dollar clearing for international wire payments, has agreed to forfeit $227 million to the Justice Department for conspiring to violate international economic regulations that posed a threat to the United States.

December 10, 2012
**FILE** Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (Associated Press)

Arizona governor ‘not surprised’ by lawsuit

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said Friday she was "not surprised" that a coalition of immigrant-rights advocates had filed a lawsuit against her seeking to overturn an executive order denying driver's licenses to illegal immigrants who avoided deportation under a new Obama administration policy.

November 30, 2012

CPA sentenced to prison in massive fraud scheme

A certified public accountant was sentenced Friday in Virginia to 54 months in prison in a half-billion-dollar fraud scheme affecting more than 3,500 victims throughout the United States and abroad, the Justice Department said.

November 30, 2012
**FILE** Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer speaks April 25, 2012, to reporters in front of the Supreme Court in Washington after the high court questioned Arizona's "show me your papers" immigration law. (Associated Press)

Lawsuit seeks to overturn Ariz. Gov. Brewer’s immigration order

A coalition of immigrant-rights advocates filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to overturn an order by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer that denies driver's licenses to illegal immigrants who avoided deportation under a new Obama administration policy.

November 29, 2012
**FILE** Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. speaks July 26, 2012, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)

‘Talks’ begin on ‘Fast and Furious’ gunrunning operation

Lawyers for the Justice Department and a House committee investigating the failed "Fast and Furious" gunrunning operation met this week to discuss a possible compromise over the release of disputed documents sought by House investigators in an attempt to resolve a pending lawsuit.

November 27, 2012
** FILE ** Thomas E. Perez, the Department of Justice's Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. (Associated Press)

Former spa owner sentenced on sex-trafficking, forced labor charges

A former Illinois spa and massage parlor owner who used violence and threats of violence to force three women from the Ukraine and one from Belarus to work for him without pay and, at times, little to no subsistence over a two-year period was sentenced Monday to life in federal prison without the possibility of parole, the Justice Department said.

November 26, 2012
Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry (Associated Press)

5 Mexicans ‘patrolling’ when border agent killed

A Mexican national who pleaded guilty in the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent — whose 2010 death led to a congressional probe of the botched "Fast and Furious" gunrunning operation — was part of a group of five Mexicans armed with semiautomatic assault rifles who were "patrolling" north of the U.S.-Mexico border with the intent to "intentionally and forcibly assault" U.S. border agents.

November 21, 2012

Iranian charged in antenna plot

An Iranian national and his Iran-based company were named Tuesday in a federal grand jury indictment in federal court in Washington, D.C., on charges of conspiracy to defraud the U.S., smuggling and the unlawful export of military antennas to Singapore and Hong Kong.

November 20, 2012
Adis Medunjanin has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from a terrorism plot that targeted the New York City subway system. (U.S. Attorney's Office via Associated Press)

Al Qaeda recruit gets life for N.Y. subway bomb plot

A 34-year-old New York man who joined al Qaeda, then plotted and attempted to commit suicide terrorist attacks was sentenced Friday in federal court in New York to life in prison for multiple federal terrorism offenses.

November 16, 2012
** FILE ** In this Thursday, March 29, 2012, file photo, a vehicle drives in front of the PayPal/eBay offices in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Justice Department: eBay violated antitrust laws

The U.S.-based internet corporation known as eBay Inc. violated federal antitrust laws when it entered into an agreement not to recruit or hire Intuit Inc.'s employees, the Justice Department said Friday in a civil antitrust lawsuit.

November 16, 2012

Exelon agrees to pay $400,000

Exelon Corp. agreed on Thursday to pay $400,000 as part of a civil settlement with the Justice Department to resolve the company's alleged violation of two court orders in its sale of three electricity plants in Maryland in order to purchase the Constellation Energy Group.

November 15, 2012
U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is joined at a news conference in New Orleans about the BP oil spill settlement by Acting Associate Attorney General Tony West (far left) and Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer (second from right). BP agreed to plead guilty to felony manslaughter, environmental crimes and obstruction of Congress and to pay $4 billion in fines and penalties. (Associated Press)

Guilty plea to cost BP $4B for explosion

BP Exploration and Production Inc. agreed Thursday to plead guilty to felony manslaughter, environmental crimes and obstruction of Congress and to pay $4 billion in criminal fines and penalties for its conduct in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, which killed 11 people and caused the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history.

November 15, 2012