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June 4, 2007 -- WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced that on June 5, 2007, it will monitor local elections in Bergen County, Edison, and Penns Grove, N.J., and in Hollywood, S.C., to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act.

Justice Department personnel will watch and record activities during voting hours at polling places in these locations, and Civil Rights Division attorneys will coordinate the federal activities and maintain contact with local election officials.    » read more »

June 4, 2007 -- Washington, DC —U.S. Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs, renewed his call to fully fund the successful COPS program in light of today's FBI annual report detailing nationwide increases in violent crime for the second consecutive year.    » read more »

June 4, 2007 -- Yet another Bush Administration political appointee testifies before Congress tomorrow about the Justice Department replacing the “most experienced lawyers” in favor of “Republican loyalists who had a much different view of the laws they were sworn to uphold.” As the U.S. attorney scandal continues to widen, new revelations cause further investigation into discriminatory hiring by the Bush Administration.

Justice official is said to have favored GOP loyalists
By Richard B. Schmitt
LA Times    » read more »

Plot Targets Airport’s Jet Fuel Supply Tanks and Pipeline; Defendants Include Extremists in United States, Guyana, and Trinidad

June 2, 2007 -- BROOKLYN, NY – Four individuals, including a former member of the parliament of Guyana and a former airport cargo worker at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), have been charged with conspiring to attack JFK airport by planting explosives to blow up the airport’s major jet-fuel supply tanks and pipeline.    » read more »

May 31, 2007 -- PITTSBURGH, PA – In a landmark settlement with federal, state and county authorities, the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority (ALCOSAN) has agreed to a comprehensive plan to greatly reduce the annual discharge of billions of gallons of untreated sewage into local waterways.    » read more »

May 31, 2007 -- WASHINGTON – A Hollywood director and producer, along with an entertainment company, have been indicted on obscenity charges, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney James R. Klindt for the Middle District of Florida announced today.    » read more »

Divestiture of Stoneville Pedigreed Seed Company, DPL Seed Lines, and Other Assets Will Preserve Competition for Farmers Throughout Cotton Belt

May 31, 2007 -- WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice announced today that it will require Monsanto Company and Delta & Pine Land Company (DPL) to divest a significant seed company, multiple cottonseed lines, and other valuable assets in order to proceed with their $1.5 billion merger. The Department will also require Monsanto to change certain license agreements as a condition for proceeding with its acquisition of DPL.    » read more »

New Initiatives Focus Resources on Federal, State and Local Partnerships

May 15, 2007 -- WASHINGTON – Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales today unveiled new Department of Justice efforts to assist federal, state and local law enforcement in combating violent crime. Part of the Department’s Initiative for Safer Communities, today’s announcement calls for more prosecutors, new training, additional funds, enhanced prevention efforts and a crack down against America’s most violent offenders.    » read more »

May 15, 2007 -- (Washington)- Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), and Reps. Linda Sánchez (D-CA) and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) called upon Attorney General Gonzales to provide information to the Judiciary Committee regarding the dismissal of Todd Graves, the ninth U.S. Attorney known to have been fired by the Justice Department in 2006. The Attorney General responded to questions about Graves' dismissal at Thursday's hearing (video), neglecting to acknowledge he was on the firing list, while defending a voter fraud case that Graves refused to endorse.    » read more »

May 14, 2007 -- The Department of Justice today issued the following statement by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales on the resignation of Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty:

"The Department of Justice will be losing a dynamic and thoughtful leader with the departure of Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty. Paul announced today that he would leave the Department later this summer after more than eight years of service.    » read more »

May 14, 2007 -- WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced that on May 15, 2007, it will monitor municipal elections in Boston, Mass., and in Philadelphia and Reading, Pa., to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act.    » read more »

May 14, 2007 -- WASHINGTON – The 50th felony conviction from Operation FastLink, a major Department of Justice initiative to combat online piracy worldwide, was announced today by Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg of the Eastern District of Virginia.    » read more »

May 11, 2007 -- WASHINGTON – The SCOOTER Store Inc. will pay the United States $4 million, and give up many millions more in pending claims for reimbursement to Medicare, to settle allegations that the company violated the civil False Claims Act and defrauded the United States, the Justice Department announced today.    » read more »

May 11, 2007 -- WASHINGTON – A former corrections officer and a former Arizona Army National Guardsmen were sentenced this week for their roles in a widespread bribery and extortion conspiracy, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced today. The defendants were sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, Tucson Division, by the Honorable Cynthia K. Jorgenson.    » read more »

May 11, 2007 -- WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced that on May 12, 2007, it will monitor local elections in the Denton Independent School District, Fort Bend County, Farmers Branch, and Killeen, Texas, to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act.    » read more »