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WASHINGTON (AP) - Taxpayers were billed an average of $45,000 in overtime and extra pay for each FBI agent temporarily posted to Iraq over the course of four years, according to a new Justice Department report. In some cases, agents were paid to watch ...
From LARA JAKES JORDAN,
GovExec.com,
18 Dec 2008
In all, the audit by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine found the FBI racked up $7.8 million in improper wages between 2003 and 2007.
Thursday's report blamed a faulty FBI policy that allowed agents to claim the extra time and money. An ...
WASHINGTON—Attorney General Michael Mukasey has recused himself from the Justice Department's investigation into Bernard L. Madoff, accused of running one of the largest Ponzi schemes ever.
Mukasey's son, Marc Mukasey, is representing Frank DiPascali, ...
From LARA JAKES JORDAN,
Boston Globe,
17 Dec 2008
WASHINGTON—A high-ranking Colombian rebel has been charged with kidnapping Americans in 1999 and 2003.
The Justice Department said Carlos Marin Guarin was a top official for the National Liberation Army both times the leftist rebel group took Americans ...
From LARA JAKES JORDAN,
Boston Globe,
8 Dec 2008
A bullet hole is seen on a traffic light pole at al-Nisoor square in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008. At this square, more than a year ago, Blackwater Worldwide security guards shot dead 17 Iraqi civilians. The US Justice Department has indicted ...
From MATT APUZZO AND LARA JAKES JORDAN,
Boston Globe,
8 Dec 2008
WASHINGTON—Five indicted Blackwater Worldwide security guards plan to surrender to the FBI Monday in Salt Lake City, about 2,000 miles from the Washington courthouse where they were charged, a person close to the case said.
Such a move would be the ...
From MATT APUZZO AND LARA JAKES JORDAN,
Boston Globe,
7 Dec 2008
WASHINGTON—The five Blackwater Worldwide guards indicted for a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting are all decorated military veterans who have served in some of the world's most dangerous hotspots.
According to lawyers for the guards, the men are: Donald ...
From MATT APUZZO AND LARA JAKES JORDAN,
Boston Globe,
6 Dec 2008
WASHINGTON—Five Blackwater Worldwide security guards have been indicted and a sixth was negotiating a plea with prosecutors for a 2007 shooting that left 17 Iraqis dead and became an anti-American rallying cry for insurgents, people close to the case ...
From MATT APUZZO AND LARA JAKES JORDAN,
Boston Globe,
6 Dec 2008
WASHINGTON—Blackwater Worldwide guards involved in the deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting of Iraqi civilians could face mandatory 30-year prison sentences under an aggressive anti-drug law being considered as the Justice Department readies indictments, ...
From MATT APUZZO AND LARA JAKES JORDAN,
Boston Globe,
5 Dec 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some high-profile convicts past and present are among more than 2,000 people asking President George W. Bush to pardon them or commute their prison sentences before he leaves office.
Junk-bond king Michael Milken, media mogul Conrad ...
