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The Public Integrity Section was created in March 1976 in the wake of the Watergate scandal.Since 1978, it has supervised administration of the Independent Counsel provisions of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, which requires the Attorney General to report to the United States Congress annually on the operations and activities of the Public Integrity Section. [1]
The remaining complaints come from a variety of sources, including private attorneys, defendants and civil litigants, other federal agencies, state or local government officials, judicial and congressional referrals, and media reports. OPR gives expedited attention to judicial findings of misconduct.
Attorney General Merrick Garland is set to denounce "dangerous" and "outrageous" attacks on Justice Department prosecutors and personnel Thursday and will seek to reassure them that he has their ...
1 Source: Department of Justice, U.S. Attorneys Offices. 2 Informed of dismissal January 2006. 3 Informed of dismissal June 2006. 4 Date resignation requested by the Department of Justice is unknown. 5 Subsequently submitted resignation on May 30, 2007, effective June 1, 2007. 6 Subsequently returned to positions at the Department of Justice in ...
Justice Department employees protested many of Trump's first-term decisions on multiple occasions. In 2020, a team of federal prosecutors handling the case against Trump loyalist Roger Stone withdrew.
Jurors acquitted the first six defendants to go to trial in late 2017, a judge ordered charges against 10 other defendants dropped because prosecutors withheld evidence, and charges against all ...
[8] [9] On the same day, Acting U.S. Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen announced that Justice Department prosecutors were working with the United States Capitol Police, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia to gather and assess ...
FBI officials from the Washington field office were in open conflict with Bratt and other DOJ prosecutors. D’Antuono, convinced that a consensual search could end the standoff, stood his ground.