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January 8, 2019

Mueller team funded during shutdown, even as DOJ money runs dry

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team is being funded through the partial government shutdown and will continue its work on the Russia investigation, despite mounting funding challenges facing the Justice Department.

December 28, 2018

Trump is done with Mueller, won't provide anymore answers in Russia probe, Giuliani says

President Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani reiterated that President Trump is done with Special Counsel Robert Mueller and won’t provide any additional written answers, speculating that the Russia probe will end soon.

December 18, 2018

DOJ handling of Trump, Clinton probes shows potential ‘abuse of prosecutorial discretion’: Mollie Hemingway

The Justice Department's divergent handling of the Clinton email and Russia investigations -- avoiding false-statement charges in one, while pursuing several in the other -- could demonstrate an "abuse of prosecutorial discretion," The Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway argued on the “Special Report” All-Star Panel Monday night on Fox News. 

December 17, 2018

Ex-Senate Intel staffer James Wolfe was at center of FBI FISA leak inquiry, Justice Department says

In a declaration included in a Friday sentencing filing, the Justice Department revealed that a high-level Senate intelligence staffer who pleaded guilty to lying to investigators about his media contacts also was at the center of the FBI's probe into the "known disclosure" of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to surveil a top aide to President Trump.

December 12, 2018

Prosecutors cut deal with Enquirer parent company over hush $$ to model claiming Trump affair

Federal prosecutors announced Wednesday they will not pursue charges against the parent company of the National Enquirer for spending $150,000 during the 2016 election to buy, then conceal, ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal’s story claiming a past affair with Donald Trump.

December 7, 2018

James Comey will return for more Hill testimony, as Trump rips ex-FBI director

Former FBI Director James Comey said he will return for more questioning on Capitol Hill later this month, as President Trump ripped into Comey for apparently declining to answer certain questions on the advice of his attorneys during Friday’s closed-door session.

December 7, 2018

Lawyers stopping Comey from answering questions in Hill testimony, Issa says

Former FBI Director James Comey’s lawyers have prevented him from answering a number of questions during Friday’s closed-door testimony before House lawmakers, according to a lawmaker in the room.

December 6, 2018

William Barr, H.W. Bush-era attorney general, eyed as possible Sessions successor

President Trump wants to nominate William Barr, the George H.W. Bush-era leader of the Justice Department, as his next attorney general, sources told Fox News.