http://www.mail.com/int/organizations/12070-us-department-justice.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.29/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/int/organizations/12070-us-department-justice.html http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2159090-poland-germany-probe-nazi-led-unit-commander.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Prosecutors in Poland and Germany said Tuesday they are reviewing files on a Minnesota man who was a commander of a Nazi-led unit to see if they have enough evidence to press charges and request his extradition from the United States. An Associated Press investigation revealed that Michael Karkoc, 94, entered the U.S. in 1949 by lyin... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:48:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2159090-poland-germany-probe-nazi-led-unit-commander.html 2013-06-18T19:48:40Z http://www.mail.com/int/business/markets/2153930-shock-lingers-nazi-unit-leader-us.html MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The revelation that a former commander of a Nazi SS-led military unit has lived quietly in Minneapolis for the past six decades came as a shock to those who know 94-year-old Michael Karkoc. World War II survivors in both the U.S. and Europe harshly condemned the news and prosecutors in Poland have said they'll investigate. An Associated... Sun, 16 Jun 2013 04:02:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/markets/2153930-shock-lingers-nazi-unit-leader-us.html 2013-06-16T04:02:06Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/us/2153026-nazi-unit-leaders-us-life-prompts-shock-denial.html MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The revelation that a former commander of a Nazi SS-led military unit has lived quietly in the U.S. for the past six decades came as a shock to people who knew him, prompted harsh condemnations from World War II survivors in the U.S. and Europe, and led prosecutors in Poland to say they would investigate. His family said he was "never a Nazi." ... Sat, 15 Jun 2013 04:08:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/us/2153026-nazi-unit-leaders-us-life-prompts-shock-denial.html 2013-06-15T04:08:31Z http://www.mail.com/int/business/markets/2151648-ap-impact-commander-nazi-led-unit-lives-us.html BERLIN (AP) — A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II, according to evidence uncovered by The Associated Press. Michael Karkoc, 94, told American authorities in 1949... Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:53:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/markets/2151648-ap-impact-commander-nazi-led-unit-lives-us.html 2013-06-14T20:53:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2141834-journalist-snowden-fled-us-fearing-unfair-trial.html HONG KONG (AP) — The American intelligence contractor who disclosed U.S. government surveillance programs fled to Hong Kong because he believed he wouldn't get a fair trial in his home country, the journalist who broke the story said Monday. Glenn Greenwald of the British-based Guardian newspaper said Edward Snowden chose the semiautonomous Chinese region... Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:44:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2141834-journalist-snowden-fled-us-fearing-unfair-trial.html 2013-06-10T17:44:13Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2120202-news-execs-holder-discuss-subpoena-issue.html WASHINGTON (AP) — In a meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder, executives from several news organizations said government officials expressed a commitment to changing guidelines on issuing subpoenas in criminal investigations involving reporters. The news executives made the comments Thursday after meeting with Holder and some of his aides. The discuss... Fri, 31 May 2013 01:04:46 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2120202-news-execs-holder-discuss-subpoena-issue.html 2013-05-31T01:04:46Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/2098542-judge-tosses-ex-bp-executives-obstruction-charge.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a charge that is the backbone of the case against a former BP executive accused of concealing information from Congress about the amount of oil spewing in 2010 from the company's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico. Defense attorney Reid Weingarten called it a huge victory for David Rainey, who was BP's vi... Tue, 21 May 2013 01:03:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/2098542-judge-tosses-ex-bp-executives-obstruction-charge.html 2013-05-21T01:03:04Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2096316-ap-ceo-calls-records-seizure-unconstitutional.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal action against the Justice Department. Gary Pruitt, in his first television interviews since it was revealed ... Sun, 19 May 2013 20:47:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2096316-ap-ceo-calls-records-seizure-unconstitutional.html 2013-05-19T20:47:05Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2091070-obama-acts-scandals-republicans-unsatisfied.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, seeking to regain his footing amid controversies hammering the White House, named a temporary chief for the scandal-marred federal tax agency Thursday and pressed Congress to approve new security money to prevent another Benghazi-style terrorist attack on U.S. diplomatic missions abroad. The efforts did little to ... Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:23 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2091070-obama-acts-scandals-republicans-unsatisfied.html 2013-05-17T00:00:23Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2090970-justice-dept-faulted-terrorist-identities.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The government allowed "a small but significant number" of terrorists into America's witness protection program and then failed to provide the names of some of them for a watch list that's used to keep dangerous people off airline flights, the Justice Department's inspector general says. As a result of the department's failure to share i... Thu, 16 May 2013 22:10:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2090970-justice-dept-faulted-terrorist-identities.html 2013-05-16T22:10:09Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2085106-holder-played-role-ap-phone-subpoena.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday defended the Justice Department's secret examination of Associated Press phone records though he declared he had played no role in it, saying it was justified as part of an investigation into a grave national security leak. The government's wide-ranging information gathering from the news cooperati... Tue, 14 May 2013 22:26:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2085106-holder-played-role-ap-phone-subpoena.html 2013-05-14T22:26:52Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2082656-govt-obtains-wide-ap-phone-records-probe.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news. The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the wo... Tue, 14 May 2013 02:55:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2082656-govt-obtains-wide-ap-phone-records-probe.html 2013-05-14T02:55:32Z http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2056148-armstrong-case-hinge-usps-benefit.html AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Lance Armstrong is facing the federal government in a legal fight with tens of millions of dollars at stake, and a loss could bankrupt the cyclist who until last year ranked among the wealthiest and most popular athletes in the world. Armstrong's best chance at protecting his personal fortune may rest in convincing a jury the governme... Wed, 01 May 2013 16:08:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2056148-armstrong-case-hinge-usps-benefit.html 2013-05-01T16:08:37Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2040806-justice-armstrong-was-unjustly-enriched.html AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department laid out its case in a lawsuit against Lance Armstrong on Tuesday, saying the cyclist violated his contract with the U.S. Postal Service and was "unjustly enriched" while cheating to win the Tour de France. The government had previously announced it would join the whistle-blower lawsuit brought by former Armstro... Wed, 24 Apr 2013 05:03:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2040806-justice-armstrong-was-unjustly-enriched.html 2013-04-24T05:03:22Z http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2031214-beer-makers-doj-reach-deal.html Anheuser-Busch InBev has reached a final agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice that could settle a dispute over its $20.1 billion acquisition of the Mexican brewer Grupo Modelo. The world's largest brewer has been trying since June to buy the half of Grupo Modelo that it doesn't already own. The Justice Department sued to block the deal out of con... Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:30:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2031214-beer-makers-doj-reach-deal.html 2013-04-19T22:30:50Z http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2002060-4-bizjet-execs-charged-with-foreign-bribery.html Newly unsealed federal charges accuse four former executives of a U.S. subsidiary of German-based Lufthansa Technik AG of engaging in a bribery scheme to generate aircraft maintenance business in Latin America. Two of the BizJet International Sales and Support Inc. executives accused pleaded guilty in January, and two others, who officials believe to be o... Sat, 06 Apr 2013 02:05:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2002060-4-bizjet-execs-charged-with-foreign-bribery.html 2013-04-06T02:05:54Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1986736-appeals-court-revives-lawsuit-justice-dept.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday revived part of a lawsuit by two attorneys who applied for prestigious Justice Department jobs during the George W. Bush administration and alleged they were denied interviews because of their liberal political views. The department destroyed files on the lawyers' applications to be hired under the depar... Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:10:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1986736-appeals-court-revives-lawsuit-justice-dept.html 2013-03-29T19:10:58Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1962876-judge-orders-mediation-fast-furious-lawsuit.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has ordered mediation in a lawsuit over congressional efforts to get records related to Operation Fast and Furious, a bungled federal gun-tracking operation in Arizona. Judge Amy Jackson Berman issued the order Monday, after the GOP-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the Justice Department said they h... Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:09:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1962876-judge-orders-mediation-fast-furious-lawsuit.html 2013-03-18T18:09:31Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/health/1946396-us-probes-sanofi-blockbuster-drug-plavix.html PARIS (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is investigating drug maker Sanofi's disclosures to the Food and Drug Administration about different responses to its blockbuster blood thinner Plavix. The French company said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission last week that it learned in June about the investigation. It did not provide detail... Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:13:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/health/1946396-us-probes-sanofi-blockbuster-drug-plavix.html 2013-03-11T19:13:06Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/us/1938316-us-court-charges-al-qaida-spokesman-911-crimes.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior al-Qaida leader and member of Osama bin Laden's inner circle was charged Thursday with conspiring to kill Americans in his role as the terror network's top propagandist who lauded the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 — and warned there would be more. Officials said Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who was born in Kuwait and was bin Laden's son-in-... Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:41:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/us/1938316-us-court-charges-al-qaida-spokesman-911-crimes.html 2013-03-08T00:41:35Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1913610-high-stakes-trial-2010-gulf-oil-spill.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP bears most of the blame for the disastrous 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico because it cut corners and put profits ahead of safety, a U.S. Justice Department attorney charged Monday at the opening of a high-stakes trial that could result in the oil company and its partners being forced to pay billions more in damages. The London-base... Tue, 26 Feb 2013 02:00:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1913610-high-stakes-trial-2010-gulf-oil-spill.html 2013-02-26T02:00:59Z http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/1908610-justice-dept-joins-suit-lance-armstrong.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department joined a lawsuit Friday against disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong that alleges the former seven-time Tour de France champion concealed his use of performance-enhancing drugs and defrauded his longtime sponsor, the U.S. Postal Service. The lawsuit alleges that riders on the postal service-sponsored team, including A... Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:35:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/1908610-justice-dept-joins-suit-lance-armstrong.html 2013-02-22T21:35:10Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1901082-judge-approves-transoceans-1b-spill-settlement.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A U.S. judge on Tuesday approved Swiss-based Transocean Ltd.'s agreement with the Justice Department to pay $1 billion in civil penalties for its role in the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — the nation's worst offshore oil spill. Last week, a different judge approved Transocean's criminal settlement with the federal govern... Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:07:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1901082-judge-approves-transoceans-1b-spill-settlement.html 2013-02-19T17:07:12Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1898378-report-assange-sees-legal-defense-politics.html CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange regards his bid to become an Australian senator as a defense against potential criminal prosecution in the United States and Britain, a news website reported on Monday. Assange spoke to The Conversation website at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where he was granted asylum in June to avoid extra... Mon, 18 Feb 2013 01:05:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1898378-report-assange-sees-legal-defense-politics.html 2013-02-18T01:05:59Z http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/1891440-corona-bud-revise-deal-to-appease-regulators.html NEW YORK (AP) — Anheuser-Busch InBev changed the terms of its proposed $20.1 billion acquisition of Mexican brewer Grupo Modelo Thursday in an attempt to push through a deal that federal regulators say will kill competition. AB InBev is willing to sell Modelo's Piedras Negras brewery and give perpetual rights for Corona and the Modelo brands in the U.S. t... Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:47:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/1891440-corona-bud-revise-deal-to-appease-regulators.html 2013-02-14T22:47:11Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1871660-brennans-cia-bid-chance-to-strike-critics.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate hearing on John Brennan's nomination to head the CIA could lay bare some parts of the secret war against al-Qaida: lethal drone strikes from covert bases against even American terror suspects, harsh interrogation methods and long detention of suspects without due process. Some of the practices produced revulsion among some in Co... Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:25:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1871660-brennans-cia-bid-chance-to-strike-critics.html 2013-02-07T00:25:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1869614-congress-considers-putting-limits-drone-strikes.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Uncomfortable with the Obama administration's use of deadly drones, a growing number in Congress is looking to limit America's authority to kill suspected terrorists, even U.S. citizens. The Democratic-led outcry was emboldened by the revelation in a newly surfaced Justice Department memo that shows drones can strike against a wider range of threats, with l... Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:38:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1869614-congress-considers-putting-limits-drone-strikes.html 2013-02-06T02:38:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/uk/1862206-minister-iceland-refused-to-help-fbi-wikileaks.html LONDON (AP) — Iceland's interior minister said Friday that he ordered the country's police not to cooperate with FBI agents sent to investigate WikiLeaks two years ago, offering a rare glimpse into the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation of the secret-busting site. Ogmundur Jonasson told The Associated Press that he was upset when he found out that... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/uk/1862206-minister-iceland-refused-to-help-fbi-wikileaks.html 2013-02-01T17:33:00Z