New York prosecutors said the investigation into possible wrongdoing at the Trump Organization is "no longer purely civil" due to the nature of the violations, Voice of America reported. “We are now actively investigating the activities of the Trump Organization in a criminal manner, together with the Manhattan District Attorney,” a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office said...
The US Department of Justice is investigating a possible secret scheme involving bribes in exchange for presidential pardons. The details were shared by the NPR edition. The 18-page conclusion of the court has been heavily edited, and the names of the persons under investigation have been deleted, as is the identity of the person who should be pardoned ...
The court in New York announced the verdict of Harvey Weinstein. The 67-year-old Hollywood magnate, who had a hand in creating the Oscar-winning, multimillion-dollar hits that went down in the history of cinema, was sentenced to 23 years in prison, Lenta reports. The court's decision was called a new milestone for the #MeToo anti-harassment movement and for ...
US Attorney General William Barr brought in a large number of federal prosecutors across the country to review investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and to address similar accusations related to Ukraine that arose. Writes about this Fox News. Barr appointed Jeff ...
The focus is on questions about Russian interference in the 2016 elections and possible obstruction of justice by the president, writes Voice of America. On Wednesday in Washington, former special counsel Robert Mueller testifies before two congressional committees about Russian interference in presidential...
Ukraine's attorney general said he had no evidence of wrongdoing by former US vice president and now US presidential candidate Joe Biden or his son, despite multiple accusations by President Donald Trump's lawyer. Bloomberg writes about this. ...
A report prepared by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller following an investigation into possible Russian interference in the US presidential election has been released. The document contains more than 400 pages, but classified information and some witness statements have been removed from it. Prior to the publication of the report, US Attorney General William Barr held a special press conference, at which he answered journalists' questions about the investigation ...
US President Donald Trump said he has asked the attorney general to look into who and why began an investigation into allegations that his election campaign was helped by Russia. Trump called special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation an "attempted coup." At the same time, Attorney General William Barr said...
US Attorney General William Barr has assembled a team to investigate the basis on which the FBI counterintelligence investigation into Trump's 2016 campaign was conducted. Administration officials familiar with the situation have reported this to Fox News. Barr's team will ...
President Trump has accused the special attorney's team of "illegal information leakage." US President Donald Trump and White House officials on Sunday rejected publications stating that the release of the full text of the report by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller following an investigation into Trump's campaign contacts with ...