Important reporting, which also provides fuller picture of what preceded DOJ’s lenient deal for Venezuelan banker accused of bribery. It wasn’t just former Trump lawyer lobbying DAG’s office, per @bloomberglaw.com exclusive, but also daughter’s $2.5m donation. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Scoop w/ @pathurtado37: DOJ Solicitor General John Sauer directed Trump's EDNY US attorney Nocella to abandon his office's FIFA bribery convictions. Nocella tried pushing back but wasn't given a meeting. Now US may need to return millions in penalties. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Scoop w/ @pathurtado37: DOJ Solicitor General John Sauer directed Trump's EDNY US attorney Nocella to abandon his office's FIFA bribery convictions. Nocella tried pushing back but wasn't given a meeting. Now US may need to return millions in penalties. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEW: DC US Attorney Pirro demoted criminal chief picked by Ed Martin after numerous court setbacks. Pirro had long sought to replace him, but abrupt demotion said to be linked to his handling of lawsuit that may tank DOJ's ability to re-charge James Comey. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEW: DC US Attorney Pirro demoted criminal chief picked by Ed Martin after numerous court setbacks. Pirro had long sought to replace him, but abrupt demotion said to be linked to his handling of lawsuit that may tank DOJ's ability to re-charge James Comey. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEW: Lindsey Halligan's next-in-line as top prosecutor in EDVA, Robert McBride, resigned from prior senior role at a different US attorney's office in 2010 amid multiple employee complaints about his management. External DOJ report recommended he step down. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEW: Lindsey Halligan's next-in-line as top prosecutor in EDVA, Robert McBride, resigned from prior senior role at a different US attorney's office in 2010 amid multiple employee complaints about his management. External DOJ report recommended he step down. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Attention is rightly focused on ex-DOJ civil rights workers condemning Trump mission overhaul. But read full statement from a current Civil Rights Division employee about the workplace struggles for the minority who haven’t left, excerpted in our story earlier news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Ex-Civil Rights Div attorneys blast Trump DOJ overhaul while current employee says, "We are working in an environment of hostility & disrespect from leadership...we never know who is going to be forced to stop their work or be terminated or transferred" news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

ICYMI - Justice Dept. leaders & White House wreaked 'havoc' by eliminating a Trump I priority of supporting prosecutors combing through mountains of electronic evidence, per resigning official. Digital data challenges have derailed key cases for DOJ. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

White House and DOJ leaders have completely abandoned a Trump 1st-term priority of confronting major challenges for department litigators drowning in rising electronic evidence, says the official overseeing this work in a scathing resignation note. My story: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Veteran criminal chief demoted in EDVa. A retired EDNC guy is parachuted in. By @benjaminpenn.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

AG Bondi implements Trump policy by directing FBI to undergo massive collection of domestic terrorism intelligence focused on antifa, per internal memo obtained by @bloomberglaw.com: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Deputy AG Todd Blanche to white collar lawyers this morning: DOJ is monitoring your LinkedIn posts & client memos for inconsistencies when they complain of weak Trump enforcement, only to seek relief from prosecutor weaponization news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Scoop: FBI aims to escalate its inquiry into 6 Democrats who made video for troops by pressing domestic terrorism squad to launch a formal seditious conspiracy investigation. Washington Field Office leaders are pushing back b/c they don't see a crime. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

News: DOJ demotes Lindsey Halligan's criminal chief as her office weighs new charges against Jim Comey, Tish James. Nearly two-decade EDVA veteran replaced by a North Carolina transplant. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEWS: DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel has blessed the use of Lindsey Halligan's name as US Attorney on her prosecutors' court filings despite a judge ruling she was illegally appointed. They're advised to add DAG Todd Blanche to the signature block as well. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Halligan should be listed in the signature block used on all pleadings as “United States Attorny and Special United States Attorney,” according to the email, which misspells “Attorney.”

NEWS: DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel has blessed the use of Lindsey Halligan's name as US Attorney on her prosecutors' court filings despite a judge ruling she was illegally appointed. They're advised to add DAG Todd Blanche to the signature block as well. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

News: DOJ has sent US attorneys scrambling to meet a Thanksgiving eve deadline to collect vast amounts of case data showing progress in meeting Trump directives, such as crackdowns on immigration and political violence in wake of Charlie Kirk shooting news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Lost in the huge Comey/James dismissals is Halligan has a new No. 2, an ex-prosecutor parachuting in from Ky., who'd be in line to refile the Trump retribution charges depending on outcome of appeal. Robert McBride has no EDVA experience. w/ Celine Castronuovo: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Motion denied. Case proceeds to summary judgment hearing Dec. 2. Smartmatic statement: "The court made clear that Fox's attempts to delay accountability won't work, and its day of reckoning is coming."

A hearing is getting under way in NY Supreme Court to consider Fox News' motion to postpone a ruling on Smartmatic's $2.7B defamation suit until DOJ's recent bribery indictment of voting machine co. is resolved. ICYMI on the unusual Trump DOJ charges - news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

News: Voting machine co. Smartmatic to be arraigned today in 1st corporate foreign bribery indictment in 15 years. Comes after Miami US Atty shut down negotiations, bolstering Fox News in defense of Smartmatic defamation suit. I explore the twists & turns: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

2 Miami prosecutors (both Rs) quit - after being asked to join a unit targeting Trump foes - when MAGA US atty ordered them to sign statements under penalty of perjury naming who they’d talked to. That’s an unheard of interrogation tactic within DOJ. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEWS: Miami US Attorney prompted prosecutor resignations by demanding they sign statements under penalty of perjury naming those with whom they discussed an assignment expected to target Trump's foes, prompting office-wide fear of witch hunt news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Re-upping this on life inside the DOJ Miami office that’s become ground zero for Trump enemies prosecutions: resignations, recruiting outsourced to a voter fraud conspiracist, crim chief walled off after Posobiec post. Tensions continue to rise. My story: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

UPDATE: Two DOJ line prosecutors have resigned under duress shortly after being asked to join this grand jury team. Both were accused by Miami superiors of leaking about the secretive assignment, and bow out after short, promising careers as prosecutors.

Figuring prominently in this effort is a former line prosecutor & law school classmate of US Attorney Reding Quinones. This lawyer, Scott Strauss, was forced out as a fed prosecutor over attempts to investigate 2020 voter fraud conspiracy but now may be returning to DOJ.

Figuring prominently in this effort is a former line prosecutor & law school classmate of US Attorney Reding Quinones. This lawyer, Scott Strauss, was forced out as a fed prosecutor over attempts to investigate 2020 voter fraud conspiracy but now may be returning to DOJ.

SCOOP: Inside the Miami US attorney’s office readying grand jury probes into DOJ officials/special counsel’s offices who investigated Trump: - recruiting lawyers - election conspiracist’s possible return - MAGA influencer-fueled reorg news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEWS: Up to four FBI agents who were fired yesterday over Arctic Frost, then reinstated b/c US Attorney Pirro said they're critical to an active public corruption probe, have been fired and walked out a 2nd time today. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

To be more clear, Patel’s anger is over news of his own personal travel being out there all week. The senior official he forced out oversees FBI aviation teams and many more crisis management functions.

Scoop: FBI ousts senior official after Kash Patel’s fury over news of his use of government jet to see girlfriend perform. The removed head of critical incident response group was 27-year FBI veteran who oversaw aviation sections. news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/fbi-o...

US Attorney Lindsey Halligan, flanked by a security detail, attended both days of arguments in a lower-profile case with appeal to President Trump. Jury quickly acquitted man her office accused of soliciting Trump's murder on social media. My story: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

News: Nominee to lead DOJ Criminal Division tells Senate Judiciary Committee he was mistaken in declaring at his hearing that DOJ rescinded policy on communicating w/ White House. He doesn't retract separate remark that DOJ will soon be updating the policy. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

President Trump’s overhaul of the Virginia US attorney’s office prosecuting his foes has driven out the leadership of its national security unit, draining its experience disrupting terrorists and spies, @benjaminpenn.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEW: Trump's nominee to head DOJ's Criminal Division just said at his Senate hearing that AG Bondi & DAG Blanche will soon be issuing a revised policy on who's allowed to communicate with White House about criminal cases news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Federal prosecutors obtained an indictment of John Bolton from a federal grand jury in Maryland this afternoon, per Chris Strohm and me: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Scoop: DOJ scheduled to seek grand jury indictment of John Bolton this afternoon in Greenbelt, MD. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

NEW: Chicago US attorney Andrew Boutros stands out from MAGA-devoted top prosecutors in past Dem cities targeted for Trump crackdowns. His rep as a conventional law-and-order leader will be tested like never before. With Megan Crepeau: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Overnight scoop from Megan Crepeau and me: A grand jury declined to indict 2 Chicago-area ICE protestors on charges of assaulting agents, an extremely rare rebuke that's been a phenomenon in DC, LA & now Chicago following Trump law enforcement takeovers: news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/g...

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEW: We obtained letter showing Trump alerted Senate "as a courtesy" that he's replacing DOJ IG, suggesting he could bypass Congress (despite it being required under IG Act). "Priorities of my Administration will be better reflected" in new IG. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

News: DOJ instructed all US attorney's offices they "should NOT seek a stay on any civil immigration matters" during government shutdown, breaking from how Trump 1 DOJ handled such cases in 2019 shutdown. Civil litigators being told they're not furloughed. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

New: DOJ directs all US attorney's offices to prosecute sponsors of unaccompanied migrant children for fraud and other crimes, per internal memo from DAG Blanche. Story with Ellen Gilmer: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

President Trump’s replacement of a Virginia US attorney with an inexperienced loyalist underscores the lose-lose situation facing Senate Democrats, @benjaminpenn.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

How DOJ's plan to eliminate a high-performing office focused on consumer health & safety has been beset by confusion and delays, including a disagreement between heads of Civil & Criminal divisions over trans care subpoenas. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Exclusive: Trump administration’s criminal probes of children’s hospitals over trans care are colliding with White House’s reorg to slash bureaucracy, leading to a disorderly rollout at DOJ that lawyers describe as anything but efficient. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...