President Trump publicly intervenes in the DOJ’s antitrust review of Netflix’s $72 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, stating it ‘could be a problem’ due to market concentration and demanding that CNN be sold. Trump’s intervention follows his …
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President Trump publicly attacks Democratic Representative Henry Cuellar for remaining in the Democratic Party and running for re-election as a Democrat, just days after Trump pardoned Cuellar and his wife from federal bribery and conspiracy charges. Trump’s statements—calling Cuellar’s …
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Turkish President Erdoğan publicly stated that Trump promised to end the Halkbank sanctions-evasion prosecution despite a Supreme Court ruling allowing the case to proceed. The state-run Turkish bank faced accusations of laundering billions of dollars for Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions. …
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U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the SEC simultaneously charge Nikola Corporation founder Trevor Milton with securities and wire fraud for systematically deceiving investors about the company’s hydrogen truck technology. Milton made false claims that a …
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The Trump Justice Department initiated a systematic surveillance operation targeting Washington Post journalists Ellen Nakashima, Greg Miller, and Adam Entous between April 15 and July 31, 2017. The operation was part of an aggressive effort to identify sources and suppress national security …
Monica Goodling, White House liaison and senior counsel to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, testified under immunity that she violated federal law by applying political loyalty tests to career Justice Department positions. A 1999 graduate of Pat Robertson’s Regent University Law School, …