46 h. ago US Attorney Pam Bondi touts Memphis arrests in post about federal crime fighting efforts there

About a dozen federal law enforcement agencies ordered by President Donald Trump to fight crime in Memphis, Tennessee, have begun making arrests

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4 d. ago At least two killed and nine injured in shooting and fire at Mormon church in Michigan

US Attorney General Pam Bondi said: ‘Such violence at a place of worship is heartbreaking and chilling’

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5 d. ago At least one killed and nine injured in shooting and fire at Mormon church in Michigan

US Attorney General Pam Bondi said: ‘Such violence at a place of worship is heartbreaking and chilling’

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6 d. ago Attorney General Pam Bondi’s own staff fume at James Comey indictment: ‘Worst abuses in DOJ history’

Trump suggested the indictment was part of a revenge operation Friday and that he hopes there will be other charges brought against his political foes

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7 d. ago Former FBI head James Comey calls Trump a 'tyrant' following his indictment for lying to Congress while declaring his innocence

Comey has been a staunch critic of Donald Trump 's administration since the president fired him. Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed the charges in a post to social media Thursday evening.

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7 d. ago Former FBI director James Comey indicted for making false statement to Congress and obstruction of justice

Indictment comes after Trump instructed US attorney general to prosecute Comey and others he considers political foesUS politics – latest updatesJames Comey, the former FBI director and one of Donald Trump’s most frequent targets, was indicted on Thursday on one count of making a false statement to Congress and one count of obstruction of justice, according to a person familiar with the matter, in the latest move in the president’s expansive retribution campaign against his political adversaries.“No one is above the law. Today’s indictment reflects this Department of Justice’s commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people. We will follow the facts in this case,” Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, tweeted on Thursday. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump picks his former lawyer to be top prosecutor, as he pushes Bondi to investigate foes

Lindsey Halligan appointed as US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia after president demands investigations of his political enemiesDonald Trump said he was appointing his former lawyer Lindsey Halligan to be US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia after an extraordinary outburst in which he overtly put pressure on his attorney general to more aggressively pursue senior public officials he regards as his political enemies.“Pam Bondi is doing a GREAT job as attorney general of the United States. She is very careful, very smart, loves our country, but needs a tough prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, like my recommendation, Lindsey Halligan, to get things moving,” Trump wrote on Truth Social post, announcing his decision. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Luigi Mangione’s lawyers seek to bar possibility of death penalty in federal case

Lawyers argue authorities prejudiced the case against Mangione by turning arrest into a ‘Marvel movie’ spectacleLuigi Mangione’s lawyers urged a judge on Saturday to bar federal prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, arguing that authorities prejudiced the case against him by turning his arrest into a “Marvel movie” spectacle and by publicly declaring their desire to see him executed.Fresh from a legal victory that eliminated terrorism charges in Mangione’s state murder case, his lawyers are now fighting to have his federal case dismissed, seizing on US attorney general Pam Bondi’s declaration prior to his April indictment that capital punishment is warranted for a “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America”. Continue reading...

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last month The clues in the Epstein jail video's 'missing minute' that obliterated Pam Bondi's theory

The release of the infamous 'missing minute' from outside Jeffrey Epstein's jail cell appears to cast doubt over Attorney General Pam Bondi's bungled explanation.

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last month Release of ‘missing minute’ of Epstein video contradicts Bondi claim cameras stopped recording

Video taken outside Epstein’s cell on night he died is part of new materials released by House oversight committeeUS politics live – latest updatesA so-called “missing minute” of CCTV footage, a key ingredient of conspiracy theories surrounding the prison death of the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been found, contradicting the assertion of Pam Bondi, the attorney general, that it was recorded over.The video was in a cache of material, including 33,000 pages of records relating to the disgraced financier and former Donald Trump associate, released late on Tuesday by the US House oversight committee. The panel has been looking into Epstein’s August 2019 death at Manhattan’s Metropolitan correctional center. Continue reading...

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last month Epstein document dump blows huge hole in Pam Bondi's 'missing minute' theory as pressure mounts for Trump to disclose the truth

A newly-released minute of surveillance footage from outside of Jeffrey Epstein's prison cell has blown a huge hole in Attorney General Pam Bondi's explanation of footage that was previously released.

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