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New documents: ATF had “Fast & Furious” prime suspect in custody in 2010 —...
“Completely embarrassing.” He told them he was in contact with Mexican cartel members at the time, too. But he promised them — cross his heart and hope to die — that he would help them with their...
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Fifth Circuit calls out DOJ lawyer: Is your boss now claiming that courts...
Escalation. Via Ace. Serious question for appellate lawyers: Is it S.O.P. for judges to introduce comments made outside the courtroom by one of the parties to the litigation in this way? Unless I...
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Jeffrey Toobin: The Fifth Circuit threw a “hissyfit” in asking the DOJ for a...
Oh my. Not an altogether partisan reaction — although, Toobin being Toobin, it’s pretty darned partisan. Orin Kerr, a regular contributor to the right-leaning Volokh Conspiracy, said this of the Fifth...
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Holder loses FACE in a case against a pro-life sidewalk counselor
A little victory. The Department of Justice — apparently because it has nothing better to do (like prosecute real cases of voter intimidation or defend the Defense of Marriage Act!) — has filed a...
View ArticleREGIONS BANK v. PAULA ROBERTS | A Court Stands Up, And Boldly States… “Banks...
Matt Weidner | A Court Stands Up, And Boldly States…”Banks Should Not Just Break Into Homes!” And for all you Constitutional scholars out there who will remind me that this protection refers to state...
View ArticleSchneiderman Propagandist Confirms Report of Lack of Staffing for Mortgage...
Naked Capitalism | Schneiderman Propagandist Confirms Report of Lack of Staffing for Mortgage Fraud Task Force There’s nothing like watching someone who is already in a hole dig deeper. Yesterday, the...
View ArticleAbigail Field | Assessing Schneiderman’s Task Force Gamble
Assessing Schneiderman’s Task Force Gamble My latest for FireDogLake. For even more confirmation that the Feds aren’t interested in bank accountability, regardless of the State half of the task force’s...
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Boehner: Sure, I might support Schumer’s bill to tax Eduardo Saverin’s wealth
“Absolutely outrageous.” Skip to 7:15 for the key bit. In fairness, he emphasizes that he’ll support it only if it’s “necessary.” There’s already an “exit tax” on the books, which Saverin paid, and a...
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Walker: No plans for a recount; Update: Walker by 12?
Plus, lessons in a Walker win? With the recall election in Wisconsin going to the voters tomorrow, one might have expected a boatload of news in the race, but so far the day has been fairly quiet....
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Darrell Issa: Wiretap approvals show high-ranking DOJ were plenty aware of...
Of smoking guns and gunwalking. From the beginning, the Obama administration’s line on the deadly gunwalking operation known as Fast & Furious has been that the whole affair was a “botched”...
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WH scrambles on leaks after press conference
DoJ to open probe. Looks like Barack Obama’s statement on the private sector doing “fine” wasn’t the only booby trap from his press conference yesterday. Asked during the morning event about the...
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Quotes of the day
Leaks. Senator John Cornyn of Texas tells National Review Online that the Obama administration’s refusal to appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate a series of intelligence leaks to the New...
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Issa to Holder: Okay, sure, let’s talk
Pony the heck up. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t excited for the contempt proceedings scheduled to go down next week against Attorney General Eric Holder for, at the very least, utterly failing to...
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Sheila Jackson Lee: This F&F debacle started under Bush
Must we go through this again? This is getting tiresome. The Right Scoop grabbed this clip of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) on C-SPAN reprimanding Republicans’ investigation into deadly gunwalking...
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New poll: Obama’s executive-privilege assertion not as popular as WH imagined
29% support. Via Jammie Wearing Fool, the numbers are as brutal as he says. In a poll taken by The Hill after last week’s assertion of executive privilege by Barack Obama in the Operation Fast and...
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Justice Department: Don’t look at us to prosecute Holder
Don’t worry, we won’t. We already pretty much knew this was going to happen — Eric Holder is the chief of the Justice Department, for goodness’ sake, it definitely would’ve qualified as a conflict of...
View ArticleThere’s a New Sheriff in Town | Christopher Conley, High Sheriff of Carroll...
Christopher Conley, High Sheriff of Carroll County NH, holds a press conference at the County complex on 7/2/12. He announces that he is forming a task force to investigate mortgage fraud. Fraud is...
View ArticleNevada | Former Deputy AG John Kelleher Skeptical of Masto’s Foreclosure...
8 News NOW ~ 4closureFraud.org TweetRelated posts: Obama’s Foreclosure Fraud Task Force Under Fire What can we expect from new DOJ/SEC/state AG task force on MBS? Schneiderman’s Fraud Task Force...
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Did the DoJ hide whistleblower memos that prove officials lied to Congress?
Hmmm. So says the Washington Guardian, uncovering at least one of the targets of Rep. Darrell Issa’s subpoenas, and it might be a game-changer. According to the Guardian, which says they have a copy...
View ArticleFailing to Break Up the Big Banks is Destroying America
Failing to Break Up the Big Banks is Destroying America The Size of the Big Banks Is – Literally – Destroying the Rule of Law Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind quotes Treasury … Related...
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Geithner on Financial Crimes: The Dog Ate My Homework
If I rob a federally insured bank and make off with $20,000, I'm facing years of federal prison time. If I defraud federal insurance programs, be they FHA or Medicaid, I'm also facing years of prison....
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IG report on Fast & Furious will come in “weeks and not months”
Next shoe to drop? The next shoe to drop in the case of Operation Fast and Furious may not fall in federal court, where the House will attempt to force Attorney General Eric Holder to cough up...
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Say, how come the DOJ isn’t prosecuting top Obama crony Jon Corzine?
Theories. Via Breitbart, three possibilities here, all of them plausible and by no means mutually exclusive. One: The DOJ just isn’t in the business of prosecuting bankers anymore. If they didn’t go...
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Report: GOP investigation finds five top ATF officials responsible for Fast &...
Terrific. Fearless prediction: Whatever happens on election day, we’re going to have ourselves a new Attorney General next year. Obama wouldn’t dump him before for fear of looking weak by caving to...
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Did the DoJ lie about political interference in the New Black Panther Party...
It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up. We’ve followed the strange decision to dismiss a case of voter intimidation that the Department of Justice had already won, stemming from the 2008 election and...
View ArticleDid We Just Find Someone to Take On the Banks?
Did We Just Find Someone to Take On the Banks? To see how the federal government has pursued money-laundering cases against big banks over their dealings with Iran and other countries under U.S. trade...
View ArticleIt’s Good to be a Bankster… Goldman Skates
*JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CONCLUDES GOLDMAN SACHS PROBE :GS US *JUSTICE DEPT. WON’T PROSECUTE GOLDMAN SACHS, EMPLOYEES: AP *JUSTICE FINDS NO `VIABLE BASIS’ FOR CHARGES AGAINST GOLDMAN *SENATE INVESTIGATIONS...
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Great news: Prominent Dem and Obama bundler probably won’t be prosecuted for...
What a shock. One of the relatively few criticisms of the Obama administration from the Left has been the curious lack of prosecutions over the 2008 financial collapse on Wall Street. If, as Barack...
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DoJ approves new voter-ID law in Virginia
Lipstick. The Department of Justice, which is currently embroiled in fights over voter-ID laws in South Carolina and Texas, has passed on an opportunity to pick a fight in Virginia. TPM’s Ryan Reilly...
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