Earlier Thursday, multiple sources told CBS News that President Trump wanted Attorney General William Barr to hold a news conference saying he didn't break any laws during his July 25 call with the Ukrainian president. . Barr ultimately declined to do so, although the Justice Department did..…
Neither the former vice president nor his son have been accused of wrongdoing by the Ukrainian government. . Justice Department officials said Barr didn't know Trump had suggested that he work with the Ukrainian president until weeks after the call, and Barr didn't contact..…
American Oversight sought documents detailing contacts between President Donald Trump's Rudy Giuliani and top State Department officials The watchdog also requested records about the reasons for recalling former Ukrainian Marie Yovanovitch.. District Judge Christopher Cooper has not..…
By mentioning both in a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, he broke the wall that should exist between the White House and the Justice Department. ..…
Or maybe someone like ranking member Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) can make up a 'parody' and read it into the record, as Schiff did with President Trump's call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, both of whom publicly denied any collusion, pressure, or quid pro quo. . . Judge Napolitano's..…
Attorneys on both sides would reach agreement about the conditions of their bail and would return to the judge later Thursday or Friday.. Parnas and Fruman were engaged in activities in U.S on behalf of one or more Ukrainian government officials — including campaign, targeted at..…
Attorneys on both sides would reach agreement about the conditions of their bail and would return to the judge later Thursday or Friday.. Parnas and Fruman were engaged in activities in U.S on behalf of one or more Ukrainian government officials — including campaign, targeted at..…
When I read this evening in The Hill, which I mistakenly thought was a legitimate news publication rather than a weapon against President Trump and the Republicans, that the documented fact that Joe Biden and his son received between them $1,750,000 for preventing any Ukrainian investigation of the..…
The Department of Justice has said Barr has never discussed Bidens with Ukrainian officials learned Trump invoked his name months after the call.. ..…
Department of Justice. If the Ukrainian Prosecutor General signs documents and send them to U.S. Department of Justice without any requests, he will accomplish his mission,' he said, adding that the Ukrainian Prosecutor General has such powers. . ..…
Washington October 10, 2019 Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein and all Democrats today called on Justice Department to explain why it decided to not investigate President Trump's of in the election during phone call with Ukrainian president. . ..…
D'Agostino expects the number of federal employees caught in the web to grow, citing lawmakers interest in Energy Department's Ukraine discussions, Defense Department's Ukrainian aid and Justice Department's investigating the 2016 election. .. ..…
She was later elevated to a post as director of public affairs at DOJ, where she has been the point person fielding queries on Trump’s potentially unlawful communications with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. (The day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced an impeachment..…
This was the day after Justice Department's division cleared President Trump of violating campaign finance laws as result of the call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that sparked whistleblower complaint. . Justice Department Kerri Kupec said that in August, the..…
Trump urged Zelensky to speak with his Giuliani and Barr about this, and DOJ denies Barr has spoken with anyone in Ukraine. Giuliani has spent months urging Ukraine to investigate possible Ukrainian election interference and the Bidens. . ..…
The Inspector General's letter cited conversation between President and Ukrainian President Zelensky Kupec, Justice Department spokeswoman, ment Wednesday.. ..…
In the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, Republicans who controlled House impeached Clinton on the charges of obstructing justice and lying to connection with his affair with White House Monica Lewinsky. US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speak..…
The Justice Department doesn't think Trump violated any laws in his July 25 conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. ..…
The Justice Department doesn’t think Trump violated any laws in his July 25 conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. ..…
But Craig said he saw his function as simply heading off erroneous spin from Ukraine about his report’s findings and maintained that he never did the Ukrainian government’s bidding or misled the Justice Department. ... It wasn’t the first time Ukrainian interests sought to..…
It is harmful for the Ukrainian people’s desire for justice and peace as well as U.S. interests in the region. . ..…
Rick Gates, the former business partner of Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, has testified that former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig helped spin a report in the media on behalf of the Kremlin-linked Ukrainian government. . The Justice Department’s case against Craig, 74, stems..…
She supported Hillary in 2016, despite her militantly pro-war, pro-Wall Street, anti-social justice agenda. . ... She supported supplying Ukrainian putschists with weapons to be used for war without mercy on Donbass freedom fighters and civilians. . ..…
Recalling the findings of Joint Investigative Team and that 17 July will mark the anniversary of the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, he called on Russian Federation to abide by Council resolution 2166 and ensure that indicted individuals face justice. Regarding the tragic downing of..…
international tribunal is due to rule Saturday on dispute over Russia's holding 24 Ukrainian sailors and three naval vessels seized off Crimea late last year.. Judge Jin-Hyun Paik of International Tribunal for the Law of Sea in German port city of Hamburg was scheduled to announce its..…
He has been vague on specifics, although on Sunday he announced his intention to replace the country’s top prosecutor, who has been heavily criticized at home and abroad for his failure to pursue high-level criminal cases and to address corruption in the justice system. . Volodymyr Zelensky (R)..…
In his report, Mueller detailed the 14 criminal referrals farmed out to other offices, of which only two are publicly known: Michael Cohen and President Obama’s former White House counsel Gregory Craig, charged recently with lying to officials about his Ukrainian lobbying with Manafort. . The..…
Two members of Die Linke were also implicated in the Ukrainian government's letter to the Foreign Office last week. Meanwhile, German Minister of Justice Katarina Barley, the lead candidate for the center-left Social Democrats in May's European elections, gave an exclusive interview to..…
In other news a federal judge sentenced a man named W. Samuel Patten on Friday to probation for, “steering $50,000 from a pro-Russian Ukrainian politician to Trump’s [inaugural] committee.” ..…
The $4 million was paid by a private Ukrainian citizen whose identity Craig and his colleague concealed, and instead drafted false, backdated invoices showing that the funds came from the Ukrainian government. . The probe into Craig comes as the Justice Department is reportedly cracking..…
Grassley asked why DOJ had not required Chalupa to register under Foreign Agents Registration Act and also asked if DOJ was investigating links and coordination between Ukrainian government and individuals associated with the campaign of Hillary Clinton or Democratic National Committee. ..…
Gliński’s experts, who only saw a 90-page description of the exhibit, complained that the Warsaw Uprising, the biggest single resistance effort against the Nazis during the war (which has its own massive museum in Warsaw), was virtually absent, as were the pogroms of Poles by Ukrainian..…
The most prominent of these is the possible prosecution of former White House counsel Greg Craig, who worked with Manafort in his attempt to curry favor in Washington for former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. . In January, the Justice Department announced that it had reached a..…
By failing to register his work for former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, Manafort was hiding the truth of. Downing reiterated his view Wednesday that Justice Department had taken light touch toward FARA, with a communicative style that prioritized bringing lobbyists into..…
Man sentenced to death for killing Ukrainian Hurghada... Red Sea Criminal Court, headed by Judge Abdel Ghany Attalah, requested the opinion of Egypt's Grand Mufti over sentencing to death defendant accused of murdering Ukrainian in Red Sea of Hurghada. ..…
A judge has set a March 8, 2019, sentencing date for Manafort on his Virginia conviction for hiding millions of dollars from the IRS that he earned advising Ukrainian politicians.The order issued Thursday, Feb. 21 by U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III means Manafort will face sentencing in..…
Consider the tremendous work of the European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, a project spearheaded by Rabbi Isaac Schapira, and assisted by Israel’s former justice minister Yossi Beilin, who recently described a trip to the Frampol, a town due south of Jedwabne, near the Ukrainian border. ..…
Russian coast guard, part of FSB, fired upon and seized three Ukrainian naval vessels as they attempted to transit Kerch Strait from Black Sea to Sea of Azov en route to Ukrainian port of Mariopol. By revoking its invocation of, European Court of Justice ruled the day that Britain has..…
Kritika&Kontext editor Samuel Abrahám reflects on the late Czech president’s failings – ‘Havel remained paralysed when it came to preserving Czechoslovakia’ – and his influence on a generation of central-eastern European intellectuals: ‘Today, their voice is present but marginal, and thus..…
Justice Department office that found Palij and pursued his deportation. . Palij, an ethnic Ukrainian born in a part of Poland that is now in Ukraine, entered the U.S. in 1949 under the Displaced Persons Act, a law meant to help refugees from postwar Europe. . ..…
“It is a restoration of historical justice,” he says. . . Credit: Chris G. ... The Ukrainian government has introduced a series of controversial laws requiring the use of Ukrainian in schools and in certain mass media. ..…
Oksana Shachko was a Ukrainian women’s rights activist. Mohamed Shahabuddeen was a Guyanese politician and judge who served on the International Court of Justice. ..…
He separately was found guilty by a jury in Virginia of eight financial fraud charges related to his Ukrainian lobbying proceeds. . ... Lead prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said the Justice Department is evaluating whether Manafort could still be held liable for crimes he's admitted to but is..…
The perpetrators of this vicious crime must be brought to justice. My thoughts are with her family and friends. ... Ukrainian lawmakers could recriminalize defamation before the presidential election next year. ..…
Responding to an information request, the Ministry of Justice informed that there are currently 158 applications for compensation in Ukrainian courts at various levels. ..…
She noted that a recent study showed that 200 Ukrainian courts have only one judge. ..…
It was motivated by a deep yearning for truth, justice, and elementary decency in public life. . The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, a Church that long embodied Pope Francis’ “peripheries,” is now fully engaged in the contest for the moral future of Ukraine. ..…
Putin stands athwart that march in Russia, where he has marginalized inconvenient parties, controlled the media and used the criminal justice system to intimidate potential rival sources of power and social authority. Now the Kremlin, which issued instructions to Ukrainian state-controlled..…