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Advance Indiana (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Indianapolis Times blog reports on Linda Pence's withdrawal from consideration as the next U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. Pence, who boasts of being a Super Lawyer, lost last year's race for Indiana Attorney General to Republican Greg Zoeller . The post has been vacant for more than two years after Susan Brooks left to become general counsel for Ivy Tech...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
Benjamin Wagner, a top federal prosecutor for more than 15 years, was sworn in Monday as the 10th U.S. attorney in the Sacramento-based Eastern District of California. Wagner, 49, joined the U.S. attorney's office in 1992 and since 2000 has been chief of the unit responsible for prosecuting public corruption, financial and corporate fraud, tax evasion, cyber crimes and...
The Intelligence Daily (Free subscription) | 42 minutes ago
Acting U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates of the Northern District of Georgia said in a statement: "Last November, in just one day, an American credit card processor was hacked in perhaps the most sophisticated and organized computer fraud attack ever conducted. Today, almost exactly one year later, the leaders of this attack have been charged. This investigation has broken the back of...
Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | yesterday
We will have a new Attorney General when the new Governor takes office in January as Chris Christie announced yesterday that Anne Milgram does not want to stay on in the position: "She says she doesn't want to stay," Christie told reporters after speaking to high school students in Hamilton. "Someone who says they don't want to stay, I don't want to consider." It wasn't really...
The Star-Ledger (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Gov.-elect Chris Christie, a former U.S. attorney, says he will seek a 'tough' prosecutor for the position
Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... is aligned with Islamic terrorists. Now what? Despite ban, Holder to speak to CAIR-linked group Attorney General Eric Holder has agreed to give a keynote speech next week to a Michigan group which includes the local branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations even though the FBI has formally severed contacts with the controversial Muslim civil rights organization. On Nov. 19, Holder...
The Sacramento Business Journal (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Benjamin Wagner was sworn in as the new U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California, based in Sacramento.
Food and Drug Administration (Free subscription) | yesterday
Demerol Diverted at Bellevue Surgery Clinic DREA LYNNE GIBSON, 43, of Fall City, Washington, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to a year and a day in prison and three years of supervised release for product tampering in violation of federal law. GIBSON pleaded guilty in May 2009, admitting that she tampered with doses of Demerol, a narcotic pain medication, at the surgical...
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday
A top hedge fund trader, Ezra Levy, was arrested today for alledgedly stealing more than $1.3 million from his employer, Boston Provident Partners, Orin Kramer's (pictured) investment shop. More from the office of the U.S. Attorney for Manhattan, Preet Bharara, who has charged a slew of hedge fund employees in recent weeks: LEVY withdrew the money from the account at Washington Mutual...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Benjamin Wagner, a top federal prosecutor for more than 15 years, was sworn in Monday as the 10th U. S. attorney in the Sacramento-based Eastern District of California. Wagner, 49, joined the U. S. attorney's office in 1992 and, since 2000, has been chief of the unit responsible for prosecuting public corruption, financial and corporate fraud, tax evasion, cyber crimes and identity theft....
Sweet Home Potomac - al.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
This story ran in Friday's paper: Democrats still looking for third U.S. attorney Senators have raised objections By MARY ORNDORFF News Washington correspondent WASHINGTON -- Democrats so far have been unable to settle on someone to fill the third...
thepharmaletter.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The US Justice Department is investigating Abbott Laboratories' sales and marketing activities for its anti-seizure drug Depakote (divalproex), its third top-selling drug, the US health care major revealed in a regulatory filing. It said that the US Attorney for the Western District of Virginia is seeking to determine whether Abbott's marketing activities violated civil or criminal laws, including...
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
U.S. officials are reviewing which Guantanamo Bay detainees could face trial in American courts and the first indications could come next week, the U.S. attorney general said Sunday.
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
The U.S. attorney general says reviews are under way to decide which Guantanamo Bay detainees could face trial in American courts or special military tribunals.
Click World News (Free subscription) | yesterday
We've seen it over and over again: when the government can hide behind the veil of secrecy, it can abuse its power. That's why we're supposed to have checks and balances on power, but all too often governments figure out ways to get around that. The latest example is that US attorneys issued a subpoena to the person hosting the news website Indymedia, demanding a logfile of all visitors from...
