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“We want to try to get over a million, maybe 2 million voters in the battleground states to sign the petition in support of the First and Second Amendment. … We are going to be awarding $1 million randomly to people who have signed the petition, every day, from now until the election,” Musk said at a campaign event in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. “This is a one-time ask,” Musk told the crowd shortly after announcing the $1 million prize. “When you start limiting prizes or giveaways to only registered voters or only people who have voted, that’s where bribery concerns arise,” said Derek Muller, an election law expert who teaches at Notre Dame Law School. Regardless of the long odds of a Musk prosecution, other respected election law experts strongly condemned the billionaire’s behavior.
Persons: Donald Trump, Elon Musk, ” Musk, , , Trump, Josh Shapiro, ” Shapiro, Derek Muller, Muller, David Becker, Becker, ” Becker, Rick Hasen, Jocelyn Benson Organizations: Washington CNN, Trump, PAC, Press, , Democrat, Notre Dame Law School, CNN, Justice Department, Election Innovation, Research, , UCLA School of Law, Democratic Locations: Harrisburg , Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania , Georgia, Nevada , Arizona , Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, ” Pennsylvania, Michigan
A South Carolina man was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for the murder of a Black transgender woman. Ritter was the first person tried and convicted under federal hate crime law for fatal violence against a trans person. Dime Doe was fatally stabbed in 2019. “With today’s sentencing, the defendant is being held accountable for the senseless murder of Dime Doe, a transgender woman of color. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009, which expanded the federal hate crime statute to include gender, gender identity, sexual orientation and disability.
Persons: Daqua Lameek Ritter, Ritter, Doe, ” Benjamin C, Doe’s, ” Doe, Kristen Clarke, Clarke, Matthew Shepard, James Byrd Jr, Shepard, ” Clarke Organizations: Justice Department, Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, University of Wyoming, Human Rights, HRC Locations: Carolina, South Carolina, Laramie, Texas
The Justice Department, in an 18-page indictment Thursday, charged Vikash Yadav, 39, with three counts of murder-for-hire and money laundering. Federal prosecutors said Yadav was a “senior field officer” for New Delhi. Their New York target was an attorney and political activist who is a U.S. citizen of Indian origin, prosecutors said. Nijjar was also mentioned as a target by Yadav and was an associate of the activist he plotted to assassinate in New York, the Justice Department release said. Yadav was employed by India’s Cabinet secretariat, which also houses the country’s foreign intelligence wing, the Research and Analysis Wing, the Justice Department indictment said.
Persons: Vikash Yadav, Yadav, , Nikhil Gupta, Gupta, Yadav “, Christopher Wray, , Matthew Miller, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Nijjar, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, ” Miller, Prosecutors, Narendra Modi’s, Matthew G, Olsen Organizations: DELHI, The Justice Department, New Delhi, FBI, U.S, Department, Indian Government, , ., The, DOJ, Associated Press, AP India, , State Department, U.S ., Research, Embassy, India’s Ministry, Affairs, Drug Enforcement Administration, Indian, Justice Department’s National Security Division Locations: U.S, New York City, New, India, York, Czech Republic, Washington, Canada, Nijjar, New York, Indian, “ Canada, New Delhi, United States
A dozen states, including Texas, have new laws limiting or banning DEI policies at their public universities. The plea deal states that the Justice Department would select the person with “input” from Boeing. A Justice Department lawyer said the provision doesn’t mean that a less-qualified person would be picked, only that the government will consider all candidates. He asked the Justice Department and Boeing to respond in writing by Oct. 25. Possibly he wants to delay the decision, but that is an unsupported hunch.”The Justice Department and Boeing said they would comply with the judge’s order and declined to comment further.
Persons: District Judge Reed O’Connor, George W, Bush, O’Connor, Barack, Ron DeSantis, , Boeing’s, Max, Nadia Milleron, Samya Stumo, ” Milleron, , , John Coffee Organizations: District, Justice Department, Boeing, ., Democratic, U.S, Supreme, Florida Gov, GOP, Alaska Airlines, MCAS, Federal Aviation Administration, , Justice, DOJ, Columbia University Locations: U.S, Fort Worth , Texas, Texas, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Massachusetts
Boeing agreed in July to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud regulators. Prosecutors arrived at the plea agreement after an extensive investigation and a series of meetings with the families, prosecutors said. He argued the judge should accept the plea agreement. The Justice Department argued that the penalties Boeing agreed to were the most serious available. During a three-year probationary period that followed, Boeing agreed to improve its quality issues and transparency with the government.
Persons: Max, Reed O’Connor, Judge O’Connor, Paul Cassell, , , Sean Tonolli, Department’s, Boeing “, ” Mark Filip, Organizations: New, New York CNN, Boeing, US Justice Department, Prosecutors, Justice Department, Alaska Airlines, Department, Federal Aviation Administration, FAA Locations: Fort Worth , Texas, New York, United States, Alaska
US government considers a breakup of Google
  + stars: | 2024-10-09 | by ( Clare Duffy | Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
The US Department of Justice in a court filing Tuesday night said it may recommend dismantling Google’s core businesses, separating Google’s search business from Android, Chrome and the Google Play app store. “That would prevent Google from using products such as Chrome, Play, and Android to advantage Google search and Google search-related products and features — including emerging search access points and features, such as artificial intelligence — over rivals or new entrants,” the government said in its court filing. The case had been described as the biggest tech antitrust case since the US government’s antitrust showdown with Microsoft at the turn of the millennium. Whatever ultimately happens to Google could set the stage for potential remedies in other, ongoing antitrust cases against tech giants. Google faces a separate case brought by DOJ attorneys, along with 17 states, who allege that its advertising business is anticompetitive.
Persons: , Amit Mehta, ” Kent Walker Organizations: CNN, Baby, Google, US Department of Justice, Android, Apple, Microsoft, DOJ, Meta, Ticketmaster
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a review and evaluation of the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said. “When we have finished our federal review, we will issue a report analyzing the massacre in light of both modern and then-existing civil rights law,” said Clarke, who oversees the Justice Department’s civil rights enforcement efforts. The review will be conducted under the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act, which allows the Department of Justice to investigate death-resulting civil rights crimes that occurred on or before Dec. 31, 1979. The massacre started after a Black man was accused of assaulting a white woman. “Although a commission, historians, lawyers and others have conducted prior examinations of the Tulsa Massacre, we, the Justice Department, never have.”Clarke said the department is examining available documents, witness accounts, scholarly and historical research and other information related to the massacre.
Persons: Kristen Clarke, Clarke, , Emmett, Viola Fletcher, Lessie Benningfield Randle, Hugh Van Ellis, ” Clarke, Damario Solomon Simmons Organizations: U.S . Department of Justice, Justice, Department of Justice, Universal, Getty, Tulsa, Justice Department, NBC News Locations: Tulsa , Oklahoma, Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Okla
In Detroit as in the rest of the U.S., the violent crime rate has dropped and is near historic lows. Last month, new FBI numbers showed that murder declined 11.6% in 2023, the largest single year drop on record. But Trump and his allies have also cherrypicked statistics and falsely told supporters that FBI crime data can’t be believed. Crime data skeptics also have attributed declining crime numbers to “woke prosecutors” who are failing to file charges. But Trump uses these low 2020 and 2021 victim survey numbers, despite the doubts cast on them, to argue that violent crime has spiked significantly during the Biden-Harris administration.
Persons: Donald Trump, “ That’s, James White, , there’s, ” White, carjackings, Trump, ” Trump, , Doubters, , Harris, ” Kevin Scott, ” Jeff Asher, Jordan Thornhill, Criminologist Alex Piquero, Venecca Thornhill, Andre Thornhill, “ Jordan, ” Andre Thornhill, Jordan Thornhill’s, we’re, We’ve, we’ve Organizations: NBC News, Detroit police, Detroit Police, NBC News Detroit, New York Police Department, Detroit, FBI, Department, Trump, Biden, of Justice Statistics, CIA, University of Miami, University of, Cities, Police, Chiefs Association, Michigan State, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives, ATF, Michigan State University Locations: America, Detroit, United States, U.S, New York City, Thornhill,
If Trump Wins, Could He Really Use the Justice Department to Jail His Rivals? One of the most powerful appointees within the Justice Department is the director of the F.B.I., who ordinarily serves a 10-year term. He would be limited to a pool of senior Justice Department employees and Senate-confirmed officials, but still…. Even if Trump has installed loyalists at the top levels of the Justice Department, F.B.I. If the public comes to see the Justice Department as compromised, will witnesses and informants continue to cooperate?
Persons: Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Biden, weaponizing, Harris, Trump, Richard Nixon, Christopher Wray, James Comey, , Joe Biden, , Peter Keisler, George W, Bush, , Hillary Clinton, Aileen Cannon, Jack Smith, Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Robert Jackson Organizations: Trump, Department, Justice Department, Loyalists, Republicans, Senate, Power, White, Heritage Foundation, Federal, Justice, Prosecutors, Republican, 11th Circuits, Capitol Locations: U.S, Texas, Florida, America
CNN —Former President Donald Trump is again claiming that special counsel Jack Smith is trying to influence the November presidential election by seeking to make new evidence and witness testimony public as voters start to go to the polls. The brief is aimed at convincing the trial judge in the case – and eventually, higher courts – that Smith’s case can survive under the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that said Trump had at least some presidential immunity in the prosecution. The filing is expected to reveal new evidence against Trump, including what several witnesses testified to in the grand jury proceedings. Sources say the proposed redactions are minimal, blacking the sources of the information and removing witness names, but leaving the substance of what they said about Trump for public view. When Smith filed the sealed brief last week, he defended the proposed redactions as striking the balance between protecting witnesses and maintaining public access to the case.
Persons: Donald Trump, Jack Smith, Smith, Trump, Department’s, ” Trump, Tanya Chutkan, redactions Organizations: CNN, Republican White House, Trump, Justice Locations: United States, Florida
But Iran’s 2020 election interference efforts stand apart from what have become well-recognized interference patterns, according to an indictment from the Justice Department, Treasury Department sanctions, researchers and media reporting, and comments from current and former U.S. officials. That gave them access to Election Night Reporting (ENR) systems, which provide live updates on unofficial results on Election Day. Fake Proud Boys campaignIn the most bizarre and elaborate foreign influence campaign of 2020, Iranian hackers allegedly staged an entirely fictional cyber-enabled fraud and harassment campaign, according to a detailed 2021 Justice Department indictment. The Iranian hackers did successfully steal some voter data from Alaska’s Online Voter Registration System, but otherwise none of it was true. The hackers tried to post it to various platforms online but it gained little traction.
Persons: Donald Trump’s, Hillary Clinton’s, Trump, , Brandon Wales, William J, Hartman, It’s, Emennet Pasargad, , Christopher Wray, National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, Alireza Miryousefi, Department’s, Joe Biden, Gretchen Whitmer, Chris Krebs, CISA, Miryousefi Organizations: Democratic, Justice Department, Treasury Department, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Security Agency, NBC News, Cyber Command, Army, RSA, tinker, U.S, Trump militia, Alaska’s, Stanford University, Google, YouTube, Republican, Trump, National Intelligence, Iran, United Nations, Lee Enterprises, U.S . Capitol, Dominion Voting Systems, FBI Locations: United States, Iran, China, Russia, U.S, Iranian, Tehran, San Francisco, Florida, Moldova, Alaska, American, Omaha, crosshairs, Michigan
Shortly after announcing North American tour dates, the band said it will not be participating in dynamic pricing. Dynamic pricing occurs when a ticket seller adjusts the cost of a ticket in real time based on live demand. The band's announcement comes after the U.K. government scrutinized Ticketmaster and its dynamic pricing model in relation to the sale of Oasis concert tickets. Some music fans feel that fandom and devotion should be considered when granting ticket sale access. Oasis said in a news release that it plans to take the tour to "other continents outside of Europe and North America later next year."
Persons: they’ve, Taylor, Department’s, Liam, Noel Gallagher, Presale, Oasis Organizations: North, North American, Ticketmaster, Oasis, Markets Authority, Justice Department, North America Locations: North America, Ireland, U.S, Paris, Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, Mexico City, East Rutherford , New Jersey, Europe, North
The Justice Department revealed an indictment Friday charging a Florida man with threatening to kill his political opponent in 2021. William Robert Braddock III, 41, of St. Petersburg, Florida, was charged with threatening two people, one of whom the DOJ said was his primary opponent in the 2022 election for Florida’s 13th Congressional District. Braddock allegedly threatened to “call up my Russian-Ukrainian hit squad” and make the primary opponent disappear, according to the indictment. A Florida court in 2021 granted Luna and a conservative activist and friend of hers, Erin Olszewski, a temporary restraining order. The case is part of the Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force, convened in 2021 to address threats targeting election workers.
Persons: William Robert Braddock III, Anna Paulina Luna, Braddock, Luna, Erin Olszewski, Olszewski, Anna Moneymaker Organizations: Department, Florida’s, Congressional, DOJ, NBC, Force, St . Petersburg Police Department, Republican Locations: Florida, St . Petersburg , Florida, Braddock, Ukrainian, Wilmington, N.C, Pinellas County, Philippines, Los Angeles, Tampa, St
Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals sounded unconvinced Monday that the TikTok “sale or ban” law, signed by President Joe Biden in April, was unconstitutional. TikTok and ByteDance have since condemned the practice and said that three employees involved were terminated, with an additional employee resigning. Pincus also said that the data TikTok collects from American users is anonymized and is comparable to other Chinese companies, like major e-commerce platforms. TikTok creators and users in the U.S. have responded overwhelmingly negatively to the proposed ban. Trump then expressed support for TikTok following Biden’s passage of the national security package that included the provision to ban TikTok.
Persons: Joe Biden, TikTok, , Andrew Pincus, , it’s, Pincus, Pincus didn’t, Judge Neomi Rao, ” Rao, Biden, Kamala Harris, Kamala, Donald Trump’s, TAYLOR SWIFT, ” Trump, Trump Organizations: Circuit U.S, Chinese Communist Party, Oracle, Forbes, Palestine Information Office, ByteDance, Justice Department, “ Biden Locations: U.S, Texas, Oracle’s U.S, China, Palestine, Tibet
The right-wing social media stars who were allegedly paid millions of dollars in a nefarious Russian influence operation to shape public opinion around the 2024 US presidential election are remaining mum. Tenet Media boasts a slate of high-profile right-wing, pro-Trump commentators including Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson and several others. The influencers all say they are “victims,” and that the FBI has contacted them for voluntary interviews. The Tenet co-founder then wrote to the Russian state media staffers, stressing that the personality was “really insisting on seeing some materials (profile, article, whatever) on Eduard before (he) feels comfortable moving forward. Two Russian state media employees, Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva, were charged by the Justice Department with money laundering and violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Persons: Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson, Rubin, Johnson, Brandon Van Grack, Robert Mueller’s, Pool, , “ We’ve, , Ben Shapiro, , Tenet, Eduard Grigoriann, “ Grigoriann, Eduard, ” Rubin, Lauren Chen, Liam Donovan, Grigoriann, Chen, Donovan, Kostiantyn Kalashnikov, Elena Afanasyeva, Van Grack, CNN’s Hadas Gold Organizations: CNN, Justice Department, Tenet Media, Kremlin, Trump, RT, FBI, Pool, Tenet, Justice Locations: Tennessee, Russian, Russia, Brussels
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland is set to denounce "dangerous" and "outrageous" attacks on Justice Department prosecutors and personnel Thursday and will seek to reassure them that he has their backs. "It is dangerous to target and intimidate individual employees of this department simply for doing their jobs." "And it is outrageous that you have to face these unfounded attacks because you are doing what is right and upholding the rule of law." He'll say of the attacks on prosecutors: "You deserve better. The former president has called DOJ employees derogatory names, describing, for example, special counsel Jack Smith, who has charged Trump in separate cases, as "deranged."
Persons: General Merrick Garland, Garland, Donald Trump, Trump, Jack Smith, Smith, Attorney Alvin Bragg, he's, Organizations: Department, Justice, DOJ, White, Department of Justice, NBC News, Trump, Biden's Justice, Manhattan, Attorney, WIN, Political, Illegal Voters Locations: WASHINGTON, York
CNN —The Justice Department is expected to soon announce criminal charges against the Iranian government-backed hackers who carried out a hack-and-leak operation targeting former President Donald Trump’s campaign, four sources familiar with the matter told CNN. The criminal charges against the Iranian hackers could be unveiled as soon as next week, two of the sources said. The Iranian hackers stole internal Trump campaign documents and shared them with news organizations in an attempt to sow discord during the presidential election, according to US officials. The hackers breached the email account of longtime Trump ally Roger Stone to target campaign staff in June, CNN has reported. CNN has requested comment from the Justice Department on the pending move against the hackers.
Persons: Donald Trump’s, Roger Stone, Matthew Olsen, , ” Olsen, China — Organizations: CNN, The Justice, Trump, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Justice Department, The Washington, Columbia Law, Department’s Locations: Russian, Iran, China, United States
BOSTON — A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for threatening to kill a group of Asian Americans and repeatedly hitting one of them with his car. “This defendant targeted this man solely because he was Asian American. He yelled “go back to China” and threatened to kill them before repeatedly hitting one of them, a Vietnamese man, with his car. There had been a dramatic spike in verbal, physical and online attacks against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, which was thought to have originated in China. “There are bad people who do bad things and good people that do a bad thing,” the attorney wrote in the sentencing memorandum.
Persons: John Sullivan, Kristen Clarke, , Sullivan, , China ”, Jodi Cohen, ” Cohen, “ Jack Sullivan, Jack Organizations: BOSTON, Justice Department’s Civil Rights, American, Justice Department, Prosecutors, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, FBI, FBI Boston Field Office, NBC Asian Locations: A Massachusetts, Quincy, China, Massachusetts, NBC Asian America
With Hunter Biden on trial, special counsel spending grows
  + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( Katelyn | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
CNN —Special counsel David Weiss’ office spent a total of $3.4 million over the past six months, a dramatic increase as it took Hunter Biden to trial in Delaware on gun-related charges and secured a conviction of the president’s son. Spending by two other Justice Department-appointed special counsels, Jack Smith and Robert Hur, decreased slightly compared with the six months prior. The disclosures come as courts have upped their scrutiny of special counsel office operations. Hunter Biden and another defendant in a separate criminal case have so far been unsuccessful in attempting to challenge special counsel Weiss’ authority. Challengers including Trump have argued that shouldn’t be allowed because Congress didn’t specifically sign off on the special counsel offices.
Persons: David Weiss ’, Hunter Biden, Weiss, Weiss ’, Jack Smith, Robert Hur, — Hunter Biden, Donald Trump —, Hur, Biden, Smith, shouldn’t Organizations: CNN, Department, Trump Locations: Delaware, Florida, Washington, DC, California
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailDOJ's Kanter on preserving competition: We want existing incumbents to work harder and deliver moreJonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General for Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the government's battles against corporate giants, fallout from Google's antitrust ruling, DOJ's antitrust fight against Big Tech and healthcare sectors, and more.
Persons: DOJ's Kanter, Jonathan Kanter Organizations: Justice Department’s Antitrust, Big Tech
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailDOJ's Kanter on Google antitrust ruling: We're interested in ensuring the competitive market worksJonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General for Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss Google's antitrust lawsuit, what the ruling means for Google going forward, what the remedies should be, and more.
Persons: DOJ's Kanter, We're, Jonathan Kanter Organizations: Google, Justice Department’s Antitrust
Inside the sole unit without air conditioning at Mississippi’s largest prison, inmates hang wet sheets from their cell ceilings to dampen the air and lay drenched towels strategically across their bodies. It remained unclear how severe the temperatures inside Unit 29 have been this summer. “But if they need to have air conditioning, they ought to have air conditioning. Lawmakers in Texas and other states without universal air conditioning have balked at the cost of installing it. At Parchman, inmates said heat is but one factor that leaves them feeling forgotten.
Persons: , Parchman, Jay, Yo Gotti, , Burl Cain, MDOC, Roc, Jordan Siev, Reed Smith, Marcy Croft, Department’s, Tate Reeves, Otis Anthony, Cain, ” Anthony, Brown, Nicole Montagno, ” Montagno Organizations: Mississippi, Penitentiary, U.S . Justice Department, Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Justice Department, of Corrections, Mississippi Department of Corrections, Justice, Mississippi Today, NBC News, Mississippi State, MJ, Republican Gov, Democratic, State Rep, Democrat, Initiative, Harvard, Lawmakers Locations: Parchman, Mississippi, New York, South, Texas, Boston, U.S
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via Email'Colossal amount' of capital in AI signals it may be the wrong architecture, says Robert McNameeRoger McNamee, Elevation Partners co-founder, joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss his take on the CNBC interview with Assistant Attorney General for Justice Department’s Antitrust Division Johnathan Kanter and his outlook on generative AI.
Persons: Robert McNamee Roger McNamee, Johnathan Kanter Organizations: Partners, CNBC, Justice Department’s Antitrust
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailDOJ's Kanter: we are thinking about AI competition from chips to the end userJonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General for Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss antitrust issues within the AI sector, the lack of competitors to Nvidia, and more.
Persons: DOJ's Kanter, Jonathan Kanter Organizations: Justice Department’s Antitrust, Nvidia
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWatch CNBC's full interview with Elevation Partners co-founder Roger McNameeRoger McNamee, Elevation Partners co-founder, joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss remarks from Assistant Attorney General for Justice Department’s antitrust division Johnathon Kanter, the upcoming presidential election, and more.
Persons: Roger McNamee Roger McNamee, Johnathon Kanter Organizations: Partners, Justice
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