Indicted Russian Company Takes Aim at Mueller
One of the three Russian companies charged with interfering in the 2016 presidential election asked a federal judge Monday to privately review the grand jury instructions.
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Special Counsel Team Has Floated Idea of Subpoena for Trump
The special counsel leading the Russia investigation raised the prospect in March of issuing a grand jury subpoena for President Donald Trump, his former attorney said, confirming that investigators have floated the extraordinary idea of forcing a sitting president to testify under oath.
Read moreFormer Trump Campaign Aide Nunberg at Court for Grand Jury
A former Trump campaign aide arrived Friday at the federal courthouse in Washington for a scheduled grand jury appearance days after he defiantly insisted in a series of news interviews that he intended to defy a subpoena in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
Read moreMinnesota Grand Jury Convenes for Police Shooting of Australian
A grand jury convened Tuesday over the fatal shooting of an Australian woman by a Minneapolis police officer last summer, a month after a state prosecutor called for further investigation.
Read moreGrand Jury Finds Penn State Showed ‘Shocking Apathy’ to Drinking
A grand jury’s report in the wake of a fraternity pledge’s drinking death said Friday that Penn State officials displayed “a shocking apathy” to dangers from excessive drinking and that its inaction allowed criminal acts to occur.
Read moreGrand Juror Can’t Write About Serving on Michael Brown Case
A Missouri appeals court on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a member of the Michael Brown grand jury who sought to go public with her experience.
Read moreNY Prosecutors Nailed on Murder-Indictment Shortcut
Finding that prosecutors created an impermissible “gravitational pull towards a guilty verdict,” a New York appeals court refused Thursday to reinstate an indictment obtained via unconstitutional short cut.
Read moreReport: Grand Jury Hears From Lobbyist in Trump Tower Chat
A grand jury used by special counsel Robert Mueller has heard secret testimony from a Russian-American lobbyist who attended a June 2016 meeting with President Donald Trump’s eldest son, The Associated Press has learned.
Read moreFeds Close Book on NYPD Killing of Guinean Immigrant
Describing herself as “heartbroken,” the mother of a Guinean immigrant killed by police spoke at a prayer service Tuesday morning before New York federal prosecutors announced her son’s killer would not be charged.
Read moreRI Governor Stumbles Over Privilege in Probe of 38 Studios Boondoggle
Five years after bankruptcy capsized the video game company started by former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, a judge’s restraining order has thrown a wrench in Rhode Island’s effort to get answers on the pricey boondoggle.
Read moreKansas Jury Awards $218 Million to Farmers in Syngenta GMO Suit
A Kansas federal jury awarded nearly $218 million on Friday to farmers who sued Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta over its introduction of a genetically engineered corn seed variety.
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Grand Jury Finds Cronyism on City Council in Oakland, California
The Oakland City Council violated open-meeting laws by awarding more than $500 million in contracts to developers for public properties in some of Oakland’s most valuable neighborhoods, according to a grand jury report released Monday.
Read moreOrange County Grand Jury Report Calls Jailhouse Snitch Program a ‘Myth’
An Orange County grand jury report released Tuesday said no evidence exists that prosecutors are using an unconstitutional secret jailhouse informant program for criminal investigations.
Read moreFlynn Associates Subpoenaed in FBI’s Russia Investigation
Amid the fallout of President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, federal prosecutors have issued grand jury subpoenas seeking the business records of known associates of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
Read moreNAACP Seeks Grand Jury Transcripts in Tamir Rice Case
The NAACP’s Cleveland branch asked the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas to release all grand jury transcripts in the investigation into the police shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, arguing the process may have been tainted by a former prosecutor.
Read moreHonolulu Police Chief Resigns as Probe Deepens
Beleaguered Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha resigned during a closed-door meeting with the city’s police commission Friday, following the revelation that he is under investigation by a federal grand jury.
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