http://www.mail.com/subjects/1540-criminal-investigations.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/1540-criminal-investigations.html http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2102292-600-police-photos-tucson-rampage-scene-released.html PHOENIX (AP) — In the chaotic moments after a gunman wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, investigators quickly turned a patrol car into a makeshift whiteboard, using markers to scrawl relevant information about the investigation. By the end of the day, the car was covered with details on the man who carried out the rampage, the hospitals where victims were b... Wed, 22 May 2013 08:16:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2102292-600-police-photos-tucson-rampage-scene-released.html 2013-05-22T08:16:22Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2102264-susan-powells-dad-private-eye-to-review-file.html SEATTLE (AP) — Police say they've taken their best shot at finding missing Utah mother Susan Powell. Now, her dad is hoping a review of the newly released case file — containing tens of thousands of pages of detective reports, maps, interview transcripts and more — might turn up something the investigators missed. Chuck Cox told reporters Tuesday at a new... Wed, 22 May 2013 08:01:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2102264-susan-powells-dad-private-eye-to-review-file.html 2013-05-22T08:01:07Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2102000-officials-benghazi-suspects-under-surveillance.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Five men are under round-the-clock U.S. surveillance in Libya, wanted for questioning in the attack last year on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. The White House believes there is enough proof for a military force to seize them as terrorist suspects, officials say, but prefers to wait until investigators have enough evidence to try them in a U.S. ... Wed, 22 May 2013 07:16:34 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2102000-officials-benghazi-suspects-under-surveillance.html 2013-05-22T07:16:34Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2100762-white-house-reporters-prosecuted.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama believes journalists shouldn't be prosecuted for doing their jobs, the White House said Tuesday, showing solidarity with First Amendment advocates alarmed by a pair of high-profile federal probes into national security leaks. Although Obama believes leaking classified information violates the law, he also believes ... Tue, 21 May 2013 21:38:01 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2100762-white-house-reporters-prosecuted.html 2013-05-21T21:38:01Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2098800-feds-investigate-susan-powell-case.html SEATTLE (AP) — The lawyer for the family of a missing Utah woman said Tuesday there's an ongoing federal investigation into Susan Powell's disappearance. Anne Bremner made the announcement at a Seattle news conference a day after local officials in Utah said they had closed their investigation into the Susan Powell case. "This is not over," Bremner said. Newly released police records show that ... Tue, 21 May 2013 19:12:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2098800-feds-investigate-susan-powell-case.html 2013-05-21T19:12:52Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2099506-policy-discretion-guide-media-sources-probes.html WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a rare moment in relations between the media and the government: In 2008, FBI Director Robert Mueller called the top editors at The New York Times and The Washington Post to apologize because the bureau had improperly obtained reporters' telephone records four years earlier. The extraordinary call was an admission that the FBI's a... Tue, 21 May 2013 07:32:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2099506-policy-discretion-guide-media-sources-probes.html 2013-05-21T07:32:59Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2098806-govt-presses-ahead-leak-case.html WASHINGTON (AP) — In another case of the Obama administration investigating classified information improperly disclosed to reporters, the government is prosecuting a State Department expert on North Korea in a probe that appears to step into uncharted territory — by declaring that a journalist is committing a crime in disclosing leaked information. During... Mon, 20 May 2013 23:59:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2098806-govt-presses-ahead-leak-case.html 2013-05-20T23:59:10Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2098684-dad-dead-girl-hes-unsure-why-shot-up.html NORTH HIGHLANDS, Calif. (AP) — A devastated father said Monday he had no idea why gunmen targeted his house, firing a barrage of bullets that killed his 10-year-old daughter as she watched TV from a chair near a picture window. With his own wounded arm in a sling, Ernesto Campos came to look for his wallet in the house scarred by at least a dozen bullet h... Mon, 20 May 2013 23:06:14 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2098684-dad-dead-girl-hes-unsure-why-shot-up.html 2013-05-20T23:06:14Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2097298-questions-linger-shooting-ny-college-student.html MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — As a grieving family prepared for the funeral of a Hofstra University junior killed by a police officer's bullet during a standoff with an armed intruder, some on Monday questioned whether police should have waited for help, including a hostage negotiating team. "I think the police is not very professional," the dead woman's godfather... Mon, 20 May 2013 22:17:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2097298-questions-linger-shooting-ny-college-student.html 2013-05-20T22:17:33Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2098276-ig-ex-us-attorney-retaliated-fast-furious.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Attorney in Arizona violated Justice Department policy by providing Fox News with information apparently aimed at undercutting the credibility of a federal agent who helped reveal the botched arms-trafficking probe called Operation Fast and Furious, the Justice Department's inspector general said Monday. There was substantial ev... Mon, 20 May 2013 21:55:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2098276-ig-ex-us-attorney-retaliated-fast-furious.html 2013-05-20T21:55:35Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2092596-treasury-officials-told-irs-probe-june-2012.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior Treasury officials were made aware in June 2012 that investigators were looking into complaints from tea party groups that they were being harassed by the Internal Revenue Service, a Treasury inspector general said Friday, disclosing that Obama administration officials knew there was a probe during the heat of the presidential campaign. ... Fri, 17 May 2013 22:42:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2092596-treasury-officials-told-irs-probe-june-2012.html 2013-05-17T22:42:05Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2089492-obama-picks-budget-official-to-troubled-irs.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama picked a senior White House budget official to become the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday, the same day another top official announced plans to leave the agency amid the controversy over agents targeting tea party groups. Obama named longtime civil servant Daniel Werfel as the acting IRS com... Fri, 17 May 2013 02:04:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2089492-obama-picks-budget-official-to-troubled-irs.html 2013-05-17T02:04:42Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2086582-timeline-irss-scrutiny.html A look at events leading to the disclosure that the Internal Revenue Service placed conservative groups under special scrutiny for 18 months before the 2012 elections, a practice that has prompted congressional inquiries, a Justice Department criminal investigation and the ouster of the agency's acting chief: 2010: March-April: IRS agents begin giving ext... Thu, 16 May 2013 03:21:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2086582-timeline-irss-scrutiny.html 2013-05-16T03:21:44Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2089098-ex-emt-texas-pleads-guilty-to-charges.html WACO, Texas (AP) — A first responder who helped evacuate people ahead of a deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a charge he possessed bomb-making materials. Bryce Reed was arrested last week and indicted Tuesday on a charge of possessing an unregistered firearm. Authorities have not announced any link between Reed a... Thu, 16 May 2013 01:03:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2089098-ex-emt-texas-pleads-guilty-to-charges.html 2013-05-16T01:03:53Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2088342-gop-dems-challenge-holder-subpoenas-to-ap.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans and Democrats on Wednesday challenged Attorney General Eric Holder over the Justice Department's handling of the investigation of national security leaks and its failure to talk to The Associated Press before issuing subpoenas for the news service's telephone records. In exchanges that often turned testy, Holder... Wed, 15 May 2013 20:27:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2088342-gop-dems-challenge-holder-subpoenas-to-ap.html 2013-05-15T20:27:03Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2085416-justice-investigating-irs-targeting-tea-party.html WASHINGTON (AP) — As the investigation into the IRS' targeting of conservative political groups widens, House Speaker John Boehner says he has a question: "Who's going to jail over this scandal?" "There are laws in place to prevent this type of abuse. Someone made a conscious decision to harass and to hold up these requests for tax exempt status," Boehner... Wed, 15 May 2013 15:58:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2085416-justice-investigating-irs-targeting-tea-party.html 2013-05-15T15:58:48Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2086294-apnewsbreak-lawyer-tsarnaevs-widow-to-cooperate.html PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A new criminal defense lawyer for the widow of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev says his client will continue to cooperate with investigators but says he plans to keep quiet about the details of her case publicly because that could hurt the investigation. New York lawyer Joshua Dratel, who has represented several t... Wed, 15 May 2013 03:41:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2086294-apnewsbreak-lawyer-tsarnaevs-widow-to-cooperate.html 2013-05-15T03:41:19Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2085748-trio-troubles-threatening-obamas-second-term.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama seemed to lose control of his second-term agenda even before he was sworn in, when a school massacre led him to lift gun control to the fore. Now, as he tries to pivot from a stinging defeat on that issue and push forward on others, the president finds himself rocked by multiple controversies that are demoralizing his allies, embolden... Wed, 15 May 2013 01:03:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2085748-trio-troubles-threatening-obamas-second-term.html 2013-05-15T01:03:12Z http://www.mail.com/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/news/world/2085106-holder-played-role-ap-phone-subpoena.html 2013-05-14T22:26:52Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2085636-stolen-us-historical-documents-returned-to-owners.html BALTIMORE (AP) — At a table in the library of the Maryland Historical Society, an investigator with the National Archives pulls file folder after file folder from a cardboard box and hands them to library director Patricia Dockman Anderson. An FBI agent sits nearby. Item No. 451: an invitation to meet Vice President Hubert Humphrey in Hawaii in 1966. Item... Tue, 14 May 2013 21:45:41 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2085636-stolen-us-historical-documents-returned-to-owners.html 2013-05-14T21:45:41Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2083728-govt-probe-obtains-wide-swath-ap-phone-records.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 17:01:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2083728-govt-probe-obtains-wide-swath-ap-phone-records.html 2013-05-14T17:01:02Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2082222-drug-manufacturer-agrees-to-500-penalty.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A subsidiary of India's largest pharmaceutical company has agreed to pay a record $500 million in fines and penalties for selling adulterated drugs and lying to federal regulators in a case that is part of an ongoing crackdown on the quality of generic drugs flowing into the U.S. Federal prosecutors say the guilty plea by Ranbaxy USA Inc... Tue, 14 May 2013 03:33:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2082222-drug-manufacturer-agrees-to-500-penalty.html 2013-05-14T03:33:52Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2082408-records-cleveland-suspect-faced-prior-complaints.html CLEVELAND (AP) — A man charged with holding three women captive for about a decade had been accused of threatening his neighbors, attacking his common-law wife and committing violations during his career as a school bus driver, according to records released Monday. The Cleveland police reports correspond with accounts provided by relatives of suspect Arie... Mon, 13 May 2013 23:56:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2082408-records-cleveland-suspect-faced-prior-complaints.html 2013-05-13T23:56:48Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2081290-spies-caught-website-scandal-embarrass-skorea.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The scandal shaking up South Korea's main spy agency is not cloak-and-dagger stuff, but the kind of low-grade trickery anyone with an Internet connection could pull off. And the target was not Seoul's opaque rival to the north, but the country's own people. Internet postings ostensibly from ordinary South Koreans, but actually fr... Mon, 13 May 2013 10:29:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2081290-spies-caught-website-scandal-embarrass-skorea.html 2013-05-13T10:29:47Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2080576-mom-accused-boy-12-could-never-hurt-sister.html VALLEY SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — A day before a 12-year-old boy was arrested for the stabbing death of his 8-year-old sister, his mother described him as "protective" of his younger sibling. Leila Fowler's killing last month shook the quiet community of Valley Springs, southeast of Sacramento, and set off an intense manhunt. Her brother was in the home at th... Mon, 13 May 2013 01:22:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2080576-mom-accused-boy-12-could-never-hurt-sister.html 2013-05-13T01:22:24Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2079866-sheriff-body-found-believed-to-missing-girl.html OTTAWA, Kan. (AP) — A body recovered amid an intensive search is believed to be that of a missing 18-month-old girl whose mother was found dead along with two men on a Kansas farm days ago, authorities said Sunday. Franklin County Sheriff Jeff Richards said in a statement that remains recovered in eastern Kansas on Saturday are believed to those of Lana L... Sun, 12 May 2013 12:38:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2079866-sheriff-body-found-believed-to-missing-girl.html 2013-05-12T12:38:03Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2076876-texas-launches-criminal-probe-plant-explosion.html WACO, Texas (AP) — Texas law enforcement officials on Friday launched a criminal investigation into the massive fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 people last month, after weeks of largely treating the blast as an industrial accident. The announcement came the same day federal agents said they found bomb-making materials belonging to a paramedic wh... Sat, 11 May 2013 04:21:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2076876-texas-launches-criminal-probe-plant-explosion.html 2013-05-11T04:21:59Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2073386-boston-chief-wasnt-told-fbi-tsarnaev-warning.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI did not initially share with Boston police the warnings it had received from Russia about one suspect in last month's marathon bombings, despite the work of four city police representatives on a federal terrorism task force, Boston's police commissioner told Congress on Thursday. Yet Commissioner Ed Davis acknowledged that police... Thu, 09 May 2013 21:21:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2073386-boston-chief-wasnt-told-fbi-tsarnaev-warning.html 2013-05-09T21:21:38Z