The Justice Department announced that embattled Wells Fargo, which has seen its name feature in virtually every prominent banking scandal in the past year, will pay a civil penalty of $2.09 billion under the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA) based on the bank’s alleged origination and sale of residential mortgage […]
Former DEA Agent Says Bruce Ohr ‘Had Other Priorities’…
Wells Fargo to Pay $2.09 Billion Penalty for Mortgage Loan Abuses…
Keeping Funds from Sanctuary Cities Is Illegal, 9th Circuit Rules…
The Ninth Circuit handed the Trump administration a legal defeat Wednesday, ruling the Justice Department does not have the authority to withhold federal grant money from sanctuary cities. A three-judge panel said the fundamental separation of powers enshrined in the U.S. Constitution bars the executive branch from refusing to disburse grants without explicit permission from […]
Judge Shoots Down Bid to Muzzle Trump on Leaks Case…
A federal judge on Thursday shot down an unprecedented bid by an ex-Senate intelligence committee staffer to prevent President Donald Trump from talking publicly about the staffer’s criminal case. Attorneys for the staffer, James Wolfe, had strongly objected to comments the president made the day after their client’s arrest on June 7 calling Wolfe “a […]
Nunes: House Intel Probing Whether Informants Gathered Data on Trump, Russia Prior to Authorized Probe…
House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) revealed in an interview on Thursday on “Rising” that the committee is probing whether the FBI sent informants to gather dirt on President Trump and possible ties to Russia prior to the authorized investigation, which was launched in July 2016. “It’s one of the outstanding questions that we have […]
Redacted Sections of Carter Page FISAs Are ‘Really Bad’ for FBI…
Meadows Backs Off Impeaching Rosenstein After Leadership Talks…
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) says he is tabling his efforts to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein after having several meetings with Republican leadership, stating that he would instead pursue contempt if the Justice Department (DOJ) does not turn over documents Congress is seeking. While the impeachment option remains on the table, Meadows told reporters […]
Sessions Defends His Deputy AG…
One FBI Text Message in Russia Probe That Should Alarm Every American by John Solomon…
Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, the reported FBI lovebirds, are the poster children for the next “Don’t Text and Investigate” public service ads airing soon at an FBI office near you. Their extraordinary texting affair on their government phones has given the FBI a black eye, laying bare a raw political bias brought into the […]
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