U.S. Department of Justice
Indictment Against Trump Unsealed, Reveals 38 Criminal Charges
The Department of Justice has unsealed its federal indictment against former President Donald Trump, detailing 38 counts related to his withholding highly classified documents and obstructing attempts to retrieve them. The damning allegations detail the documents contained national defense information and foreign defense secrets exposed at his Mar-A-Lago estate.
Indictment Against Trump Unsealed, Reveals 38 Criminal Charges
The Department of Justice has unsealed its federal indictment against former President Donald Trump, detailing 38 counts related to his withholding highly classified documents and obstructing attempts to retrieve them. The damning allegations detail the documents contained national defense information and foreign defense secrets exposed at his Mar-A-Lago estate.
Donald Trump Indicted on 7 Counts In Federal Documents Probe
Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal grand jury on seven counts related to his mishandling of sensitive classified documents. Trump broke the news on his social media network, declaring that he would report to a federal court in Miami, Florida next Tuesday.
DOJ Exposes Constant Racial Abuse By Louisville Police
A report from the Department of Justice revealed that its investigation of the Louisville Metro Police Department showed that it exhibited constant racial abuse of its Black citizens and those with behavioral issues. The 90-page report showed that officers routinely hurled racial epithets and utilized excessive force, particulalry against those protesting the death of Breonna Taylor in 2020. The post DOJ Exposes Constant Racial Abuse By Louisville Police appeared first on The Latest Hip-Hop News, Music and Media | Hip-Hop Wired.
Coke or Crack?: DOJ Revises Drug Case Rules To Combat Racial Disparities
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Pete Marovich / Getty The Department of Justice is now moving to right a historic wrong by instructing prosecutors to eliminate racial disparities in cases in drug cases at the behest of U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland. On Friday (Dec. 16th), Garland issued directives to federal prosecutors to pursue the same charges and establish equivalent sentencing for both cocaine powder and crack cocaine. The current law sees people who are convicted of possessing 28 grams of crack cocaine receive a mandatory sentence of five years in prison. That same sentence is only given to those who are convicted of possessing nearly twenty times that amount in the powdered form of cocaine. The previous situation highlighted how Black and Latinx defendants were unfairly g...
Live Nation & Ticketmaster Reportedly Under DOJ Investigation
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SOPA Images / Getty After a huge online fiasco involving tour tickets for Taylor Swift, the Department of Justice is now reportedly beginning to investigate Live Nation & Ticketmaster’s practices. According to reports, the anger and frustration expressed online last week Tuesday (Nov. 15) by fans of the pop singer trying to get tickets for her upcoming Eras tour, prompted the federal body to investigate Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation Entertainment. Ticketmaster offered an apology to Swift and the fans in a statement released via Twitter last Friday (Nov. 18). The company claimed that a combination of record-high demand (reportedly 3.5 billion requests were made), bot attacks, and requests without special codes “broke parts of their w...
