AT&T, Centennial deal gets Justice Department okay

AT&T Inc. has reached an agreement with the Justice Department and the Louisiana Attorney General to sell off assets in eight markets in Louisiana and Mississippi in order to proceed with its proposed $944 million acquisition of Centennial Communications Corp.

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Northrop Grumman settles DOJ defective parts suit

Northrop Grumman Corp. agreed to pay $325 million to resolve allegations it provided and billed the National Reconnaissance Office for defective military satellite parts.

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US sues UP railroad over fines for drugs on trains

The ongoing dispute between Union Pacific Corp. and the federal government about restricting drug smuggling on the railroad's trains has spawned two more lawsuits over nearly $38 million in fines that Union Pacific has refused to pay.

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Bayer to pay $97.5M to settle kickback probe

German medical conglomerate Bayer will pay $97.5 million to settle U.S. government allegations that it paid kickbacks to medical suppliers to boost sales of its diabetes products.

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Justice Department investigating American Express

American Express has received a request from the U.S. Department of Justice for information regarding the credit card company's policies related to merchant surcharging, according to a regulatory filing Friday.

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Former Justice official pleads guilty in Abramoff probe

The Justice Department lost one of its own to the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal Tuesday as a former high-ranking department attorney pleaded guilty to conflict of interest.

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Microsoft Antitrust Compliance on Track

Microsoft Corp. has submitted a test version of its Windows Vista operating system with features that make it easier to use non-Microsoft programs to search PC hard drives, according to a report issued by the Justice Department Friday.

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Judge to Order Google to Turn Over Records

A federal judge said Tuesday he intends to order Google Inc. to turn over some of its Internet records to the U.S. Justice Department, but expressed reservations about requiring the company to divulge some of its most sensitive data — the actual requests that people enter into its popular search engine.

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U.S., Google Set to Face Off in Court

The Bush administration will renew its effort to find out what people have been looking for on Google Inc.'s Internet-leading search engine, continuing a legal showdown over how much of the Web's vast databases should be shared with the government.

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ACORN and its affiliates received $200,000 in Justice Department grants between 2002 and 2009, according to a report issued Friday by the department's inspector general.

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U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan will leave her job on Nov. 16. The announcement was made late Thursday afternoon in a news release from Buchanan's office. The move had been expected for some time after President Barack Obama's election.

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The U.S. Department of Justice has requested information from Sony regarding its optical disc drive business in what could be the start of an investigation into the industry.

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Stop The Chamber

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Economists gathered in Washington, D.C., this morning to debate how the wireline duopoly affects the market for broadband in the U.S. at an open meeting held by the FCC.

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Active year could lead to final H-1B showdown during 2010 immigration reform debate

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Injustice in the name of justice

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"...no Warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

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Franken asks Assistant Attorney General David Kris how the Patriot act's "roving wiretaps" provision squares with the 4th amendment. Kris punts on the question, noting how "surreal" he thinks the situation is.

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FROM PATERNALISM TO EMPOWERMENT: Why the DOJ Should Emphasize Anti-discrimination and First Amendment Enforcement in Protecting America's Most Vulnerable People

According to the New York Times, Attorney General Eric Holder harkened to 'the historical mission of the (civil rights) division' in recently announcing plans for the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) to reinvigorate enforcement of anti-discrimination laws.

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WASHINGTON – Seven former CIA directors who served both Republican and Democratic presidents have asked President Barack Obama to end the Justice Department's criminal probe into the harsh interrogations of terror suspects during the Bush administration.

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Neo-con intelligence officials brazenly demand President interfere with, stop criminal investigation

Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic wrote a post a few hours ago about a letter written to President Obama, signed by seven former intelligence officials – virtually all of them neo-conservatives and many from the Bush administration – complaining about DoJ investigations into tort …

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For all the uproar about ACORN, under Bush's leadership, the U.S. Interior Department was effectively a taxpayer-subsidized criminal enterprise. Why do you suppose conservatives consider this irrelevant, while ACORN is a national scandal?

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Steven J. Rosen's defamation lawsuit against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is now entering a critical phase. A series of cross-filings stakes out the critical court terrain. Rosen intends to show that obtaining and leveraging classified U.S.

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excerpt: "" In 2005, Jamie Lee Jones was gang-raped by her co-workers while she was working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad.

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Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, Inc., and its drug subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Company, Inc. are paying $2.3 billion to settle the largest criminal and civil health care fraud action ever brought by the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Some parts of Blackwater's clandestine work for the CIA have begun to leak out from behind the iron curtain of secrecy.

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Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to ask a special prosecutor to investigate for possible criminal prosecution CIA operatives who interrogated terrorists in overseas locations is the latest and most egregious instance of political gamesmanship by Holder, who strode into off …

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Just over two weeks ago, FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds was finally allowed to speak about much of what the Bush Administration spent years trying to keep her from discussing publicly on the record. Twice gagged by the Bush Dept.

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The Justice Department's ethics office has recommended reversing the Bush administration and reopening nearly a dozen prisoner-abuse cases, potentially exposing Central Intelligence Agency employees and contractors to prosecution for brutal treatment of terrorism suspects, acco …

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LOUISVILLE, KY—Daniel Ryan Parker, age 38, of Santa Rosa, Florida, (formerly of Crestwood, Kentucky), Jeffrey Allan McGill, age 38, of LaGrange, Kentucky, and Michael D.

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The Justice Department recently questioned military defense attorneys at Guantanamo Bay about whether photographs of CIA personnel, including covert officers, were unlawfully provided to detainees charged with organizing the Sept.

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History Alive : America is a Nation of Cowards

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The House Judiciary Committee released thousands of pages of new documents concerning the firing of nine US Attorneys under the Bush Administration — and they heavily implicate the office of onetime Bush adviser Karl Rove.

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Excerpt: ""The Department of Homeland Security recently decided to issue a new set of rules that will force local police who are enforcing immigration laws under the 287g program to focus on arresting immigrants charged with violent and serious crimes (as opposed to those who co …

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