WASHINGTON — Yahoo’s free email service could have cost the company an extra quarter of a million dollars a day. The government called for the huge fine in 2008 if Yahoo didn’t go along with an expansion of U.S. surveillance ...
Read More »Victims waiting for Abu Ghraib amends
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fending off demands that he resign over the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told Congress in 2004 that he had found a legal way to compensate Iraqi detainees who suffered ...
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Read More »After debacle, new anti-corruption leader
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section has a storied 34-year history of pursuing corruption in government and safeguarding the public trust. That trust was breached, however ...
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Read More »Lobbyist: What stories does he have to tell?
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Justice Department prosecutors made it clear in private discussions in recent months that once-prominent lobbyist Paul Magliocchetti could limit his legal exposure if he cooperated fully in a criminal investigation ...
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