Sarah Lynch

Federal prosecutors in Maryland are scrutinizing the conduct of two allies of U.S. President Donald Trump in their investigation of Democratic Senator Adam Schiff, according to a document reviewed by Reuters and two sources briefed on the matter.

Senior fraud investigators at Fannie Mae believed there was no clear evidence to prove that New York Attorney General Letitia James committed mortgage fraud, according to new information disclosed by James' legal team in a filing on Monday.

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook’s lawyer on Monday offered the first detailed defense of mortgage applications that gave rise to President Donald Trump's move to fire her, saying apparent discrepancies in loan documents were either accurate at the time or an “inadvertent notation” that couldn’t constitute fraud given other disclosures to her lenders.

The U.S. Justice Department has ordered federal prosecutors to provide examples of "unusual judicial system obstacles" they have faced during criminal or civil proceedings tied to immigration, assaults on law enforcement or "antifa," according to a government email reviewed by Reuters.

Federal prosecutors are preparing grand jury subpoenas to investigate Obama-era intelligence officials who produced an assessment finding Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election in a bid to help Donald Trump, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

The FBI Agents Association on Tuesday lambasted FBI Director Kash Patel, after the bureau fired, unfired and then re-fired several FBI agents who had worked on cases targeting U.S. President Donald Trump or his allies.

The U.S. Justice Department placed two prosecutors on leave, hours after they referred to Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, as "a mob of rioters" in a sentencing memo, said four people familiar with the matter.

U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats on Wednesday asked the Justice Department to hand over all legal opinions its attorneys have produced to assess the legality of the military's 13 deadly strikes against suspected drug vessels that have killed about 57 people.

Civil rights advocacy groups on Friday asked a federal judge to block the U.S. Justice Department from shuttering a 1960s-era office that was tasked with quelling racial and ethnic tensions in communities across America.

Former FBI Director James Comey on Monday asked a federal judge to dismiss criminal charges against him, arguing that the U.S. attorney who brought the case was unlawfully appointed and that he is being unfairly targeted because of President Donald Trump's "personal spite" against him.

An early cryptocurrency investor dubbed the "Bitcoin Jesus" has agreed to pay up to $49.9 million to resolve charges he evaded tens of millions of dollars in taxes, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a court filing on Tuesday.

A man was arrested in Florida on charges of intentionally igniting what would become California's devastating Palisades Fire, which killed 12 people and wiped out a wealthy enclave of Los Angeles at the start of the year, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday.

An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a "perp walk" of the bureau's former director in front of news media cameras, four people briefed on the matter said.

The U.S. Justice Department is closing a task force that took on drug cartels and an office that aimed to ease racial tensions, in a reorganization that drops a plan to merge the nation's top drug and gun law enforcement agencies, documents seen by Reuters show.

Nevada's top federal prosecutor has asked the FBI to investigate debunked Republican claims about voter fraud in the 2020 election, a probe she hopes will influence congressional races and ensnare Democrats, according to a government document seen by Reuters.

A U.S. District Court Judge on Tuesday disqualified Nevada's lead federal prosecutor Sigal Chattah from supervising four criminal cases, dealing another setback to President Donald Trump's administration's maneuvers to keep his picks in power.

The FBI has fired a group of its agents photographed kneeling on the street in an attempt to de-escalate tensions during a racial justice protest in Washington in 2020 in the aftermath of George Floyd's killing by police in Minneapolis, three people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

Senior leaders at the U.S. Justice Department are urging swift charges against President Donald Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton, despite hesitation from prosecutors who believe more investigation is necessary, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Prosecutors are expected to ask a grand jury to indict former FBI Director James Comey in the Eastern District of Virginia in the coming days, two sources briefed on the matter told Reuters.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he had appointed his former attorney Lindsey Halligan to be U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, hours after pressuring his attorney general to more aggressively pursue his political enemies.