Showing posts with label United States Department of Justice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United States Department of Justice. Show all posts
Saturday, January 08, 2011
U.S. District Court Approves Subpoena Of Twitter Wikileaks Records Which Includes Information On Followers
The U.S. Justice Department asked for an received a subpoena form a Federal District Court In Virginia ordering Twitter to turn over records relating to Wikileaks to the Department of Justice. Here is a copy of the list information that Twitter must turn over to the D.O.J. Click on the document to see a larger view of it.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Death To Gang Members: The Feds' New Tactic : NPR
Death To Gang Members: The Feds' New Tactic : NPR
Alejandro Enrique Ramirez Umana has an unfortunate claim on history. He is the first member of the MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, gang to be sentenced to death under the federal system of capital punishment, according to the Justice Department.
Prosecutors and FBI officials say the Umana investigation, which took them from North Carolina to California to El Salvador, is a model for how federal authorities will attack a growing gang threat that is leaching into smaller cities across America's heartland.
Umana is only 25. But over the course of his relatively short life, he allegedly killed five people in his role as a traveling evangelist for the MS-13 gang.
Alejandro Enrique Ramirez Umana has an unfortunate claim on history. He is the first member of the MS-13, or Mara Salvatrucha, gang to be sentenced to death under the federal system of capital punishment, according to the Justice Department.
Prosecutors and FBI officials say the Umana investigation, which took them from North Carolina to California to El Salvador, is a model for how federal authorities will attack a growing gang threat that is leaching into smaller cities across America's heartland.
Umana is only 25. But over the course of his relatively short life, he allegedly killed five people in his role as a traveling evangelist for the MS-13 gang.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Jury Convicts 2 Of Hate Crime In Fatal Beating : NPR
Jury Convicts 2 Of Hate Crime In Fatal Beating : NPR
A jury convicted two Pennsylvania men Thursday of a federal hate crime in the fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant, finding they attacked the man primarily out of hatred for Hispanics.
An all-white jury in Scranton convicted Derrick Donchak and Brandon Piekarsky of violating the civil rights of 25-year-old Luis Ramirez, who died in July 2008 following a confrontation with a group of white high school football players in the former mining town of Shenandoah. The jury also convicted Donchak of two other counts related to a plot to cover up the beating.
Donchak, 20, sobbed as the verdict was read. Piekarsky, 18, put his head in his hands. Both were led away in handcuffs and ordered held behind bars pending their Jan. 24 sentencing. They could be sentenced to life in prison.
Crystal Dillman, who had two children with Ramirez, told The Associated Press she "couldn't be happier.''
"My family finally gets justice, well, some justice and Luis can finally rest a little bit easier in peace knowing that some justice was served,'' Dillman said. "It's like a burden's lifted off my chest to know that something was done for Luis.''
Prosecutors alleged that Donchak and Piekarsky beat and kicked Ramirez because they didn't like Hispanics and wanted them out of their town.
"They showed no remorse that night ... no sense of responsibility for having beaten a man to the point of death,'' Justice Department prosecutor Myesha Braden told jurors Wednesday in her closing argument.
Friday, October 08, 2010
Conservative Group Sues DOJ for Info on Its Decision to Sue Arizona « The Washington Independent
Conservative Group Sues DOJ for Info on Its Decision to Sue Arizona « The Washington Independent
Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, announced today that is has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Justice to try to get at the government’s reason for suing Arizona over its SB 1070 immigration law. The law’s most controversial provisions, including instructing local law enforcement officers to check immigration status while enforcing other laws, were blocked by a federal judge July 28. Before the case appears before an appeals court in November, Judicial Watch hopes to obtain “any and all communications between the Department of Justice and any third parties.”
Translation: They want to know whether the ACLU and other civil rights organizations that spoke out against the law influenced the DOJ’s decision to file a lawsuit July 6. The DOJ lawsuit was one of seven legal challenges to SB 1070, including a suit filed May 17 by the ACLU and a coalition of civil rights groups.
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