News: In a twist, DOJ market prosecutors return to Crim Div fraud section, for now, after being loaned to Trump admin’s new Fraud Division. More staffing tumult in internal reorg memo resolving a major source of consternation in white collar bar. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

This was an extraordinary hearing transcript. Beyond judge’s condemnation of DOJ conduct, it was revealed that Jordan Campbell, Trump appointed DAAG overseeing trans care probes, had sued the same Rhode Island hospital in his personal capacity as lawyer for detransitioners.

NEW: Federal judge recently called on everyone to try quashing DOJ subpoenas due to lack of trust in prosecutors in trans care probes, calling DOJ conduct a "cautionary tale." news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

New: DOJ has a long history of setting robust internal controls to ensure taxpayer $$ is responsibly & legally awarded to deserving victims. That’s all missing from the Trump IRS settlement $1.8B anti-weaponization fund. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

New: DOJ has a long history of setting robust internal controls to ensure taxpayer $$ is responsibly & legally awarded to deserving victims. That’s all missing from the Trump IRS settlement $1.8B anti-weaponization fund. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

New: DOJ tactic of paying lawyers to stick around is spreading, as DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro is offering ~$5k-$7k ad hoc bonuses to preferred prosecutors. What Pirro calls "performance rewards" others see as an attempt to prevent further attrition. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

New: DOJ tactic of paying lawyers to stick around is spreading, as DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro is offering ~$5k-$7k ad hoc bonuses to preferred prosecutors. What Pirro calls "performance rewards" others see as an attempt to prevent further attrition. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEW: DOJ leaders are locked in turf battle over the future of Trump white collar probes, as Blanche ally tries to expand scope of White House-launched fraud division. Deadline for final recommendation is tomorrow. Exclusive on the negotiations: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEW: DOJ leaders are locked in turf battle over the future of Trump white collar probes, as Blanche ally tries to expand scope of White House-launched fraud division. Deadline for final recommendation is tomorrow. Exclusive on the negotiations: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Story updated with exclusive details: DOJ Civil Division to start paying all current attorneys retention incentives in every paycheck thru Thanksgiving, as experienced lawyers keep fleeing offices critical to defending Trump agenda in court. Biweekly bonuses of ~ $60-$220⬇️⬇️

Story updated with exclusive details: DOJ Civil Division to start paying all current attorneys retention incentives in every paycheck thru Thanksgiving, as experienced lawyers keep fleeing offices critical to defending Trump agenda in court. Biweekly bonuses of ~ $60-$220⬇️⬇️

JUST IN: The Justice Department is taking an apparently new tack to overcome woes in attracting qualified lawyers: Offering $25,000 signing bonuses. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

New: After multiple court defeats blocking its access to trans youth health records from hospitals, Trump DOJ is going venue shopping by asking a Texas judge to enforce subpoena of a Rhode Island hospital. w/ @jacqthomsen.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

ICYMI: Meet the gruff US Attorney Ellis Boyle prosecuting Comey's sea shells post. He's emulated Trump's mannerisms for months, and describes convicts as "big shark bad boys." Read to the end for my favorite Boyle quote. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The US Attorney prosecuting James Comey for the sea shells post, Ellis Boyle, has been imitating Trump's mannerisms over his nine months in office. It wasn't until he secured the indictment this week that he surely caught Trump's attention. My latest: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The US Attorney prosecuting James Comey for the sea shells post, Ellis Boyle, has been imitating Trump's mannerisms over his nine months in office. It wasn't until he secured the indictment this week that he surely caught Trump's attention. My latest: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

SCOOP: DOJ prosecutors in Virginia are pursuing separate charges against James Comey for allegedly leaking classified info. Blanche's DOJ, not satisfied with just the '86 47' indictment, in recent weeks revived nat sec probe that stalled out last year. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Recapping yesterday: - DOJ eliminates election crimes central command before midterms & ends mandatory election law training for prosecutors - Department watchdog opens audit of DOJ Epstein files process - SPLC indictment omits key intent element, possibly over grand jury failure (links below)

A less-noticed aspect of DOJ Southern Poverty Law Center case is rare use of statute criminalizing false statements to banks. But indictment omits intent, prompting lawyers to suspect DOJ improperly instructed grand jury. W/ @ccastronuovo.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEWS: Ahead of midterms, DOJ leaders eliminated a 24/7 centralized command post on election crimes, discontinued mandatory election law training for prosecutors & restricted access to threat briefings for states. "It's going to be the wild west." news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

News: Trump nominates a permanent Justice Department inspector general - Don Berthiaume, who was first tapped as acting DOJ IG last year. He'd take over a watchdog office that's been noticeably silent amid various White House-DOJ scandals. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

DiGenova taking over Brennan case is the news but on far left is a less-noticed SDFL hire - Jed Doty, lawyer in Trump 1 WH & Gov. DeSantis, is now appellate chief. It’s quite uncommon for someone with political background & no DOJ experience to vault into a US atty’s office career management.

New: Trump DOJ brings in fresh blood to run grand conspiracy probe of Brennan & co. - former Trump lawyer/Fox News conspiracy theorist Joe diGenova. At 81, the Reagan-era US attorney who called for execution of Chris Krebs, will be counsel to AG Blanche. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Scoop: As top prosecutor exits DOJ grand conspiracy probe into Brennan & co., a less experienced political appointee recently joined the case. Todd Blanche aide & former Cannon clerk during Jack Smith case, Christopher-James DeLorenz, is now handling Brennan. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

DOJ’s elite fraud section was largely shielded from Trump’s partisan intrusion over past year & was assured separation from JD Vance’s fraud initiative. In one fell swoop yesterday, that ended, sparking deep concerns of weaponized white collar enforcement. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Update: Memo reorganizing DOJ to create new fraud div. is now public. It also moves fraud section's tax unit over and takes support from appellate and money laundering offices. There's a 30-day interim period at which point DAG will consider whether to make the reorg permanent.

Scoop: DOJ reneges on commitment to Fraud Section attorneys that they'd be insulated from new Trump/Vance-driven Fraud Division. White collar specialists learned today--after Todd Blanche told the public--they'll be deployed to new anti-fraud team. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

ICYMI - tucked inside dozens of budget docs released Friday was an extraordinary admission from DOJ's National Security Division on 'unprecedented' personnel challenges (during a war), after Trump removed veteran leaders & others headed for exits news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

More Bondi firing fallout brewing at DOJ, as Trump appears ready to remove another loyal senior official - associate AG Stanley Woodward, who has represented many in Trump’s orbit - & replace with more vocal MAGA warrior Harmeet Dhillon. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

In surprising candor, DOJ admits its National Security Division facing “unprecedented personnel constraints.” List of attrition and workload challenges - as NSD tackles threats during Iran war - are tucked into DOJ document accompany budget. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEW: DOJ Inspector General refused to investigate whistleblower Erez Reuveni's misconduct complaint against Emil Bove & other top officials, as watchdog accused of failing to probe political scandals under Trump news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Earlier this month Sara Bloom oversaw a US attorney's office routinely defending Trump immigration policies in court. Last week she left DOJ and is already fighting against it on behalf of detained immigrants. My story: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has been charged with stealing $5m in FEMA funds & using it to support her campaign. She argues she’s innocent & is being targeted by Trump’s DOJ. Yet she sought a pardon from Trump at last year’s WH Christmas party, according to The Hill.

Earlier this month Sara Bloom oversaw a US attorney's office routinely defending Trump immigration policies in court. Last week she left DOJ and is already fighting against it on behalf of detained immigrants. My story: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Update - Department spox issues statement confirming that district court negotiated a deal with Trump DOJ on choosing Robert Frazer as new US atty. This is a pretty surprising de-escalation from the nationwide trend, but will it hold in other districts?

NEW: Court appoints a new US attorney in New Jersey to replace leadership trio judge ruled was illegal. But a post from Alina Habba suggests this pick won't get instantly fired like the others. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Over the weekend, GOP-controlled MSPB snuck in a major gift for Trump and his ability to keep terminating federal employees. Read all about it, now in front of the paywall ⬇️

Sometimes the numbers at DOJ tell a story of what is happening there. Sometimes it’s a single hire that tells the story. Tonight, at Law Dork.

NEW: Federal panel issues 'extraordinary' ruling supporting constitionality of Trump federal worker firings, determining Attorney General had Article II power to remove immigration judges news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Great deep dive in NY Times today on DOJ's aggressive push to charge protesters, including some lively new anecdotes on Aakash Singh's role steering the administration's most controversial prosecutions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/u...

New: For 1st time under Trump phenomenon of judges not extending term-expired interim US attorneys, it’s now happened in a red district - to Utah’s Melissa Holyoak - & to someone about to get Senate confirmed news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

SCOOP: DOJ has waived policy requiring newly hired prosecutors to have least a year (more often 3 years) experience practicing law. As DOJ struggles to replace mass departures w/ qualified applicants, this move allows hiring straight out of law school. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Trump defense lawyer John Lauro faced unusually testy pushback from co-panelists & DOJ alums attending ABA conference. Lauro praised Trump DOJ for being in a "better place" now that Jack Smith isn't victimizing the president. "You're a clown," someone yelled. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Another federal district court panel has declined to approve a Trump US attorney, this time Western Virginia's acting chief prosecutor Robert Tracci who replaced Trump's first pick after he got pushed out. Story from @ccastronuovo.bsky.social: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Major tone shift at ABA white collar conference boycotted by Trump DOJ: Big Law leaders took turns teeing off on diminished state of corporate enforcement & politicized prosecutions, as judges start trusting defense counsel more than gov't. My dispatch: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

There we have it - DOJ lawyer says he’s resigning over his AI-created fabricated quotes in filing, as judge scolds him at hearing, @kylejahner.bsky.social reports from Raleigh courthouse news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/doj-l...

Show cause hearing is set to begin in Raleigh at top of the hour. A federal magistrate judge wants to know why the AUSA shouldn’t be sanctioned and why the office doesn’t share responsibility for false quotes. I’d expect AI generated legal filings to come up.

JUST IN: Voting machine co. Smartmatic asks judge to dismiss its foreign bribery indictment due to 'vindictive & selective' prosecution stemming from animus over 2020 election - the latest Trump foe to seek review of what motivated a DOJ charging decision. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEWS: A Justice Dept. line attorney in North Carolina fabricated quotes in court filing, causing judge to order hearing to consider sanctions and holding entire US attorney’s office jointly responsible. Pro se defendant flagged the errors. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

What's interesting about Bondi DOJ decrying 'weaponization' of state bar complaints is that a GOP congressman - frustrated w/ Clinton DOJ prosecuting him for bribery in '90s - who came up with the idea for changing law to subject DOJ prosecutors to bar investigations. Look up McDade amendment.