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Capitol Police Hire Special Prosecutors to Handle Rise in Threats Against Congress
The police department charged with protecting lawmakers has brought in new attorneys specially responsible for prosecuting people who make violent thr [...]
Prosecutors Want Judge to Act on Key Claim in Trump Documents Case
The push for a quick decision on one of the former president’s most far-fetched claims is an unusual and risky move in a case Judge Aileen Cannon has [...]
Dutch Prosecutors Seek 64-Month Jail Sentence for Tornado Cash Dev Alexey Pertsev
Pertsev has been accused of laundering $1.2 billion worth of crypto through the anonymizing tool Tornado Cash, the Dutch prosecutors detailed in an in [...]
Prosecutors Charge Man With Firing Shots Outside the Capitol on Jan. 6
The charges once again laid bare one of the most persistent myths about the attack promoted by pro-Trump politicians and media figures: that none of t [...]
Trump’s Secret Files Case ‘Starkly Different’ from Biden’s, Prosecutors Say
The special counsel, Jack Smith, filed an array of rebuttals to motions by former President Donald J. Trump to dismiss his documents case.
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Prosecutors Reject Claims of Unfairness in Trump Classified Documents Case
Jack Smith, the special counsel, said in a court filing that never before had a former official “engaged in conduct remotely similar to Trump’s.”
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Judge Signs Off on Binance's $4.3B Plea Deal With U.S. Prosecutors
A federal judge approved the U.S. Department of Justice's $4.3 billion fine on Binance after the crypto exchange pleaded guilty to violating anti-mone [...]
Ex-F.B.I. Informant Accused of Lying About Bidens Told Prosecutors He Had Russian Contacts
Prosecutors portrayed the former informant, Alexander Smirnov, 43, as a serial liar incapable of telling the truth about even the most basic details o [...]
Legal experts were skeptical about a conflict of interest, but said the hearing did not help the prosecutors.
Legal experts were skeptical about a conflict of interest, but said the hearing did not help the prosecutors.
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Supreme Court Gives Prosecutors a Week to Respond in Trump Immunity Case
The schedule the justices set was not particularly speedy, though nothing prevents the special counsel from filing sooner than the court’s Feb. 20 dea [...]
Prosecutors Seek to Protect Witnesses in Trump Classified Documents Case
The move to shield the identities of several witnesses suggested a quiet but mounting sense of frustration with Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who is oversee [...]
Prosecutors in Documents Case Reject Trump’s Claims of Bias
The office of the special counsel, Jack Smith, pushed back on the former president’s assertions that his prosecution was motivated by animosity toward [...]
Peter Navarro’s Prosecutors Ask for 6-Month Sentence
Mr. Navarro would be the second Trump official to be sentenced for stonewalling Congress in its Jan. 6 investigation.
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Judge Declines to Hold Prosecutors in Contempt in Trump Election Case
Judge Tanya S. Chutkan issued her order after prosecutors continued to file court papers in the former president’s election interference case even tho [...]
Appeals Court Finds DeSantis Violated Prosecutor’s First Amendment Rights
The ruling deals a blow to the Florida governor on a decision he uses to bolsters his conservative credentials.
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