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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a civil lawsuit against energy giant BP Exploration and Production Inc. and eight other companies, accusing them of violating the Clean Water Act and has asked the court to hold them liable without limitation under the Oil Pollution Act for all removal costs and damages caused by the oil spill, including damages to natural resources.

A federal grand jury has indicted five people in connection with an identity theft and tax fraud conspiracy in the Middle District of Alabama, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced.

A Detroit-area medical clinic owner has been sentenced to 151 months in prison for his role in a $23 million Medicare fraud scheme, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Health and Human Services (HHS) have announced.

Legal experts, including a pair of former U.S. prosecutors, discussed U.S. law and how it relates to the leaking of documents online by the WikiLeaks organization and its founder Julian Assange.

Howrey's litigation practice co-chair Gary Bendinger has defected with two other partners to Sidley Austin.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit against Berkeley School District, Illinois, for refusing to grant unpaid leave to a Muslim teacher who wished to make a pilgrimage to Mecca.

Three pharmaceutical companies have agreed to collectively pay a fine of $421 million to settle charges of inflating drug prices, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Former senior U.S. District Judge Jack Camp's judicial decision-making process could have been impaired by drugs or racial bias and aggrieved defendants could request re-sentencing, federal prosecutors have suggested.

U.S. law enforcement is going after investment fraud.

Oleg Nikolaenko, a 23-year old Russian, has pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he is the mastermind behind a notorious botnet, dubbed Mega-D, that controlled a network of infected computers and generated some 10 billion spam e-mails daily, or a third of the world's total.

A leader of a violent international street gang, the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), has been sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for murdering a fellow gang member in 2004.

A federal jury has found a 33-year-old Connecticut man guilty of conspiracy and firearms offenses stemming from an alleged attempt to sell firearms and grenades to what he believed was a white supremacist group.

Singapore Airlines Cargo (SIA Cargo) has agreed to plead guilty in a price-fixing case and pay a $48 million criminal fine, the U.S. Justice Department has announced.

The U.S. government had been secretly sheltering Nazi war criminals for several years and has clashed with other nations over their fate, a 600-page report, which the Department of Justice has tried to keep hidden from the public, reveals.

The founder of the controversial whistleblower website, Wikileaks, has been placed on Interpol’s international wanted persons list, the international police organization announced today.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) stormed into offices of three large hedge funds in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts and seized documents in a string of raids that is being billed as a crackdown on insider trading by hedge funds, mutual funds and investment bankers.

A federal district court judge, who was arrested last month for purchase and use of drugs and illegal possession of firearms, has pleaded guilty and has agreed to step down from the bench.

Sen. Franken says Comcast may be gun-jumping with its impending merger with NBC Universal and thus violating antitrust laws.

In what looks like a setback for the Obama administration in matter of trial of terrorism suspects in civil court, the first suspect transferred from Guantanamo military prison to face a U.S. civilian trial was found not guilty by a Manhattan federal court jury on all but one charge in the 1998 African embassy bombings.

Hate crimes in the United States decreased by over 15 percent from 2008 to 2009, according to the annual Hate Crimes Statistics, released today by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

A bill that would authorize the U.S. attorney general to shut down web sites accused of copyright infringement has met opposition from Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).

A former Ford Motor Company product engineer, who has pleaded guilty to two counts of stealing trade secrets in a federal court, is likely to face six years prison term.

Two former Liberian humanitarian aid workers have been convicted for defrauding the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) of $1.9 million, which was intended to help rebuild civil war-torn Liberia, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said.

Lawmakers critical of President Barack Obama's efforts to try some accused terrorists in civilian courts continued in their opposition after a jury in New York convicted Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani of just one of 285 counts related to the 1998 twin U.S. embassy suicide bombings in Africa.

Ford Motor co engineer Xiang Dong Yu, 49, of Beijing, China, pleaded guilty today in federal court to two counts of theft of trade secrets.

A former executive of Japanese Airlines and two former executives of Nippon Cargo Airlines have been indicted for conspiring to fix rates on air cargo shipments to and from the United States, the Department of Justice (DoJ) said.

The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), which was set up by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center in May 2000 to monitor and prevent cyber crime, recently logged its 2 millionth consumer complaint.

After a long gap, the trial of Ingmar Guandique, who has been accused of murdering federal intern Chandra Levy, resumed on Wednesday and took a sudden turn with the prosecutors resting their case after abruptly dropping two charges against Guandique because a prison inmate has refused to testify against him, even as a FBI forensic expert claimed he had found former Congressman Gary Condit's DNA on Levy's underwear.

The U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission announced a civil settlement with Hewlett-Packard Co in relation to alleged E-rate fraud.