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US contractor charged with giving classified information to Ethiopia

US contractor charged with giving classified information to Ethiopia

A U.S. government contract employee for the Justice and State Departments was arrested on espionage charges unsealed, prosecutors said, accusing him of passing on classified information to Ethiopia. Abraham Teklu Lemma, 50, was charged in a complaint from late August, which was unsealed on Thursday, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement. He faced three charges including "delivering national defence information to aid a foreign government, conspiracy to deliver national defence information to aid a foreign government, and the willful retention of national defence information," the Justice Department said. Prosecutors did not name Ethiopia but said Lemma spied for…
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Justice Dept. asks court to end arbiter’s review of Trump documents

Justice Dept. asks court to end arbiter’s review of Trump documents

THE U.S. Justice Department asked an appeals court to end a third-party review of documents seized from Donald Trump's Florida home, arguing that a judge should not have appointed an independent arbiter as the former president battles a criminal investigation into his handling of sensitive government records. At issue is the appointment of a special master by the Florida-based federal judge presiding over Trump's legal effort to restrict access to documents seized by FBI agents during a court-approved Aug. 8 search of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach. The Justice Department in its petition to the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit…
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Two DRC men plead guilty to trafficking rhino horns

Two DRC men plead guilty to trafficking rhino horns

KANISHKA SINGH TWO Congolese, who were earlier arrested in the United States and indicted by a federal grand jury, have pleaded guilty to trafficking elephant ivory and white rhinoceros horn from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Seattle, the U.S. Justice Department said. An American flag waves outside the U.S. Department of Justice Building in Washington, U.S., December 15, 2020. REUTERS/Al Drago/File Photo Herdade Lokua, 34, and Jospin Mujangi, 32, of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, were arrested in November last year outside of Seattle before a federal grand jury indicted them for conspiracy, money laundering, smuggling and legal violations…
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Buffalo mass shooting suspect indicted on federal hate, firearms charges

Buffalo mass shooting suspect indicted on federal hate, firearms charges

TYLER CLIFFORD THE man accused of shooting dead 10 Black people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, on May 14 has been indicted on 27 federal hate crimes and firearms offences, the U.S. Justice Department announced. The indictment returned by a federal grand jury tacks on an additional hate crime count against Payton Gendron, 19, in a criminal complaint filed last month. He is now charged with 14 hate crimes violations and 13 firearms offences. Authorities say the suspect, who broadcast the attack in real-time to the live-streaming service Twitch, is a white supremacist who targeted the store…
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U.S. dials back probe of Chinese scientists on visa fraud charges

U.S. dials back probe of Chinese scientists on visa fraud charges

JANE LANHEE LEE A U.S. Justice Department program aimed at protecting American technology from China dropped five prosecutions of Chinese scientists after a draft of an internal FBI analysis questioned a main premise for the investigations, according to court documents. The "China Initiative" had been criticized by civil liberties advocates as racially biased, and judges in several court proceedings had expressed scepticism about the FBI's tactics in interrogating the scientists. On Thursday and Friday, the U.S. government filed motions in federal courts to dismiss charges in five cases of Chinese researchers arrested on visa fraud charges last year. All pleaded…
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