Category: Crime and Punishment

Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Inspector General told conservative lawmakers that he was not empowered to investigate complaints of voter intimidation during the 2008 presidential election, according to the Washington Times.

In the two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world has become the target of a growing global crime threat from criminal organizations and criminal activities that have poured over the borders of Russia and other former …

I want to congratulate the Seattle Police for their steady and swift work in tracking down career criminal, Maurice Clemmons. The Fox News website put up the article: “Suspect in Washington State Police Killings Shot Dead”, which began: “Seattle police …

Since September 11, 2001, the United States has established tools to address the threat to the US financial system of money laundering and terrorist financing.

Bernard B. Kerik, former Commissioner of the New York City Police Department and the Department of Corrections, pleaded guilty in White Plains, NY federal court to eight felonies, two of which were separately charged in an indictment in the District …

In yet another case of political misconduct in New Jersey, a federal jury convicted former Bergen County Democratic Organization chairman Joseph Ferriero of conspiracy and mail fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud Bergenfield of the honest services of …

The cyber threat confronting the United States is rapidly increasing as the number of actors with the tools and abilities to use computers against the United States or its interests is rising, according to a report obtained by the National …

Three members of the violent gang known as the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation were sentenced on Monday for their participation in narcotics and weapons trafficking, according to a report submitted to the National Association of Chiefs of Police.

A little while back, talk show host Michael Savage had to endure an attack on his character when the British government associated him with terrorists and other criminals and banned him from traveling to the U.K. But on Saturday, …

While the mainstream news media are hard at work covering the upcoming speech by President Barack Obama or helping the Democrats to achieve their dream of taking control of Americans’ health care, the Federal Reserve Bank continues working with …

In one of the biggest and most controversial political corruption cases ever, Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson, a Democrat, is facing over 100 years in prison on multiple offenses. Rep. Jefferson garnered the nickname “Cold Cash” after investigators discovered he’d hidden …

A Wheeling, Illinois man who allegedly took sexually explicit photos and movies of a young girl and traded the images online was arrested and charged in federal court Thursday, according to a criminal complaint obtained by the National Association of …

While most of the news media concentrated on health care reform and President Obama’s gaff regarding his college professor friend and a Cambridge cop, the Departments of Justice’s coordinated actions against the Gulf Cartel/Los Zetas drug trafficking organization, now …

The mayors of Hoboken, Secaucus and Ridgefield, the Jersey City deputy mayor and council president, two state assemblymen, numerous other public officials and political figures and five rabbis from New York and New Jersey were among 44 individuals charged Thursday …

US federal agents nabbed a 21-year old illegal alien wanted in Texas for murder attempting to escape back into Mexico.

US Customs and Border Protection officers and Border Patrol agents working at the Hidalgo International Bridge apprehended a Mexican male wanted …