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26 unusual facts about United States Department of Justice


2011 Armed Forces of the Philippines corruption scandal

In the case of the missing US$5 million, the United States Department of Justice legal attaché asked her if she can be allowed to audit the UN reimbursements, as a certain US$5 million which was personally picked up by a military officer in New York was not reflected in the military's accounts.

A.U.S.A.

While being part of the Department of Justice, Sullivan finds both colleagues and opponents challenging his every move.

Andrea Salsedo

Andrea Salsedo (September 21, 1881 – May 3, 1920) was an Italian anarchist whose death caused controversy as it was caused by a fall from the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation (BOI) offices on 15 Park Row in New York City.

Appointment and confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States

Once the Senate confirms the nomination by an affirmative vote, the President must prepare and sign a commission, and have the Seal of the United States Department of Justice affixed to the document before the new Justice can take office.

Belo

On December 16, 2013, the United States Department of Justice threatened to block the deal unless Gannett, Belo and Sander completely divested KMOV to a government-approved third-party company that would be barred from entering into any agreements with Gannett, in order to fully preserve competition in advertising sales with Gannett-owned KSDK.

Benjamin Gitlow

For his publicized connection on the staff of The Revolutionary Age Benjamin Gitlow was targeted for arrest during the coordinated raid of the Communist movement conducted by New York state authorities and the Department of Justice during the night of November 7/8, 1919.

Brevard County Social Services

The event was currently funded by a Department of Justice "Weed and seed" grant.

Camel Club

A lawyer with the Department of Justice (DOJ), part-time bartender and Alex Ford's girlfriend.

Danny McShain

Because there was a championship on the line and two promoters were arguing over the wrestling territory in which the match took place, the United States Department of Justice became involved.

Falcon Air Express

The charter currently holds contract with the US Department of Justice, as well as operating ad hoc charters for universities, tour operators, and cruise line groups.

Fort Bend County, Texas

In April 2009, as part of a settlement with the United States Department of Justice, Fort Bend County agreed to increase assistance to Spanish-speaking voters in elections held in the county.

Freehold Borough Schools

Freehold Borough was awarded a research grant in 2004 by the National Institute of Justice, a research branch of the United States Department of Justice.

Gainesville State School

In 1999 the state school received a two year, $198,000 grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention of the United States Department of Justice so the juvenile detention center could provide art instruction to state school students.

HMH-464

During March, the Condors received a prepare to deploy order in support of the Department of Justice (DOJ) operations in Vieques, Puerto Rico.

Michigan Mega Conference

The schools declined a resolution offered by the OCR and subsequently sent the subject to the Justice Department in the summer of 1995.

Newbold Morris

On February 1, 1952, Morris was appointed Special Assistant Attorney General by Attorney General J. Howard McGrath to investigate possible corruption in the Department of Justice.

Organization of Chinese Americans

Interns have also met with members of various government agencies such as the United States Department of Justice, the United States Department of Defense, and even White House staff members and directors to discuss issues concerning civil rights and voting rights, especially as it pertains to the APIA community.

Robert Moussallem

Although Arrington was never indicted by federal investigators, he brought Moussallem's story to the public and it brought public attention to a seemingly systematic targeting of black officials by the Department of Justice.

Sector Commander

The protection of waterfront property and facilities was accomplished using military, naval, and Department of Justice intelligence personnel; private organizations and companies; municipal and state police forces; and commercial organizations such as underwriter associations.

Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King

In 1992, the US Justice Department sued Sikorsky over allegations of overcharged component pricing and deliberately misleading US Navy negotiators.

Silk O'Loughlin

O'Loughlin worked for the Justice Department in the Boston District from the end of the 1918 season until his death less than four months later.

The Matlock Paper

Its protagonist, James Barbour Matlock, is an English professor in his 30s who is recruited by the Department of Justice to investigate a drug smuggling ring, led by a mysterious figure named "Nimrod." The novel is set at the fictitious Carlyle University in Connecticut, a thinly disguised Wesleyan University in Middletown, Ludlum's alma mater.

The Sigma Protocol

Meanwhile, United States Department of Justice Agent Anna Navarro is recruited by a secretive group within the DoJ to investigate the deaths of a list of influential men around the world who have been dying mysteriously.

Themes in Minority Report

The cast includes Tom Cruise as Precrime officer John Anderton, Colin Farrell as Department of Justice agent Danny Witwer, Samantha Morton as the senior precog Agatha, and Max von Sydow as Anderton's superior Lamar Burgess.

United States Department of Justice

The sculptor C. Paul Jennewein served as overall design consultant for the entire building, contributing more than 50 separate sculptural elements inside and outside.

Wings Alliance

As part of their partnership, Northwest had taken a stake in Continental, raising the hackles of antitrust regulators in the United States Department of Justice.


568 Group

In response to several prestigious colleges and universities holding "Overlap Meetings" to set similar tuition and financial aid levels, the Justice Department began an antitrust investigation in 1989 and in 1991 filed an Sherman Antitrust Act suit against 57 colleges and universities.

Abdullah Al-Rimi

Abdullah Al-Rimi (Arabic: ) (born in Yemen) became wanted in 2006, by the United States Department of Justice's FBI, "sought in connection with possible terrorist threats against the United States." He was one of 23 people who escaped from Yemen prison in San'a, including the Yemen cell leader, Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei.

Alfred V. Rascon

Rascon has also worked for the Department of Justice’s, Drug Enforcement Administration, INTERPOL (U.S. National Central Bureau), and the Immigration & Naturalization Service.

Allan Ryan

In the U.S. Justice Department, he was Assistant to the Solicitor General and from 1980 to 1983 Director of the Office of Special Investigations, Criminal Division, responsible for the investigation and prosecution of Nazi war criminals in the United States.

Charles Nesson

He then worked as a special assistant in the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division under John Doar.

Collins J. Seitz

His daughter, Virginia A. Seitz, is a well-known attorney at the Office of Legal Counsel of the Department of Justice.

David K. Colapinto

He also served as counsel in the law firm's successful defense of Linda Tripp in her Privacy Act lawsuit against the Departments of Justice and Defense and in defending Marita Murphy in her lawsuit Murphy v. IRS.

Donald F. Turner

He headed Antitrust Division at the United States Department of Justice under Lyndon Baines Johnson.

ETrace

in September 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued a draft report critical of Project Gunrunner, followed by the final version in November, 2010.

Euclid Trucks

In 1959 the Department of Justice under Attorney General William P. Rogers initiated an anti-trust suit, under the Clayton Act, against General Motors Corporation.

Facing Ali

The Justices decided 8-0 (with Thurgood Marshall abstaining), that "... for the reasons stated, that the Department of Justice was simply wrong as a matter of law in advising that the petitioner's beliefs were not religiously based and were not sincerely held".

FBI: The Untold Stories

One similarity with the predecessor program was that this one was also based on actual cases handled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States Department of Justice, and was made with the Bureau's full cooperation and involvement.

Gainesville Eight

After learning from FBI informants and agents within the VVAW about possible plans for disruption and violence, the Department of Justice initiated a grand jury investigation.

Gordon Wasserman, Baron Wasserman

He worked with the Police Commissioners of New York City, Philadelphia and Miami as well as the Department of Justice.

Harry Scolinos

They have five children: Tasia Scolinos who is Justice Department's Director Of Public Affairs; Alicia Scolinos Medders; Lea Scolinos; Peter Scolinos; and Christiana; along with two grandchildren.

High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation

High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation involves a 2010 United States Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust action and a 2013 civil class action against Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar and Lucasfilm for alleged "no cold call" agreements which restrained the recruitment of high-tech employees.

Howard Opinsky

Mr. Greenberg fought a highly publicized battle to maintain his reputation amid a civil lawsuit from New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer and investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Hsi Lai Temple

The U.S. Justice Department alleged that Maria Hsia solicited $55,000 in donations for the Democratic National Committee the following day, which were later reimbursed with temple money.

Illegal drug trade in El Salvador

These allegations were part of an investigation by the United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General.

Interchange fee

Reps. John Conyers (D-MI) and Chris Cannon (R-UT) introduced the "Credit Card Fair Fee Act" on March 6, 2008, which would create a panel of judges, appointed by the Department of Justice Antitrust Division and Federal Trade Commission to oversee interchange fees.

J. George Stewart

He was special engineer to the lands division of the United States Department of Justice and Corps of Engineers in 1952/1953, and was a civil engineer in Hollywood, Florida in 1954.

James J. Saxon

Mindful of congressional cries that gangsters may still be buying up banks to sanitize their hot money, Joseph W. Barr, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, announced that he set up a unit to help the Justice Department weed out criminals in banking.

Joseph Tate

Previously, Tate worked in the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice.

Jule Sugarman

He worked in the Office of Management and Budget from 1957 to 1959, then worked for the United States Department of Justice in the Federal Bureau of Prisons until 1962, when he took a position with the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs at the United States Department of State.

Kalyn Free

Free was born in Red Oak, Oklahoma, and after she graduated from law school she began her legal career by going to work for the United States Department of Justice; she was the youngest attorney ever hired by the DOJ.

Karl R. Thompson

Karl R. Thompson is an American constitutional lawyer who was appointed to a position within the United States Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel by the Presidency of Barack Obama.

Legal status of Internet pornography

Child pornography is illegal in most countries with coordinated enforcement by Interpol and policing institutions of various governments, including among others the United States Department of Justice.

Mel Deschenes

In 2007 it was revealed that the week prior to the bombing, Deschenes was in Los Angeles with an International Commission on Terrorism, when he reportedly told Justice Department agent Graham Pinos that he felt Sikh extremists were "likely" to have a Canadian plane "blown out of the air".

Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices

The Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC), in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, is responsible for enforcing the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), which protects US citizens and certain other individual from discriminations based on their citizenship or immigration status.

Police accountability

The 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act authorized the United States Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division to bring civil ("pattern or practice") suits against local law enforcement agencies, to reign in abuses and hold them accountable.

Special prosecutor

The Ethics in Government Act expired in 1999, and was effectively replaced by Department of Justice regulation 28 CFR Part 600, under which Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald was appointed to look into the Plame affair.

The Venetian Macao

In early 2011 the United States Department of Justice and the Securities Exchange Commission initiated an investigation into the Las Vegas Sands Corporation with respect to the compliance of its Macao properties with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Justice (DOJ) is the Office of the Inspector General specific to the United States Department of Justice that is responsible for conducting nearly all of the investigations of DOJ employees and programs.

William S. Sessions

A report by outgoing Attorney General William P. Barr presented to the Justice Department that month by the Office of Professional Responsibility included criticisms that he had used an FBI plane to travel to visit his daughter on several occasions, and had a security system installed in his home at government expense.