US Department of Justice arrested Russian nationals abroad, but it claims that these acts do not violate the 1999 Mutual Legal Assistance treaty between the two nations.
The government argued Monday that U.S. consumers would pay 5 percent more for ranges and wall ovens if AB Electrolux (ELUXb.ST) was allowed to buy General Electric's (GE.N) appliance business but the companies accused antitrust enforcers of failing to acknowledge powerful and growing competition from overseas manufacturers.
The U.S. Justice Department is probing allegations that Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI.BR) is seeking to curb competition in the beer market by buying distributors, making it harder for fast-growing craft brewers to get their products on store shelves, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Company executives may be quicker to hire lawyers and less likely to cooperate with investigations because of a renewed push by U.S. prosecutors to put individuals in prison instead of only levying big fines on corporations that break the law, lawyers with expertise in white-collar crime cases said.
A U.S. judge said on Wednesday congressional Republicans could move forward with parts of a lawsuit that alleges executive overreach by President Barack Obama's administration in implementing his signature healthcare law.
The U.S government charged six Chinese nationals with economic espionage, saying they stole secrets from two companies that develop technology often used in military systems, the Department of Justice said on Tuesday.
The U.S. Department of Justice is examining currency-linked investments offered by Barclays (BARC.L) and UBS (UBSG.VX), the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
A former banker at Switzerland's biggest bank, UBS (UBSN.VX), has been found guilty of handing over protected Swiss bank account data to the United States, according to a penalty order issued by the Swiss prosecutors' office.
Several U.S. appeals court judges appeared skeptical on Thursday about the Department of Justice's attempt to preserve a criminal conviction against baseball home run king Barry Bonds that resulted from a steroids probe.
On a night when Michael Douglas should have been elated for winning an Emmy on Sunday for best actor as Liberace in the HBO miniseries 'Behind the Candelabra,' the Oscar-winner reflected on his personal life. Douglas first told the audience, and later the media backstage about his son Cameron who is currently serving time in federal prison for drug-related charges.
Nine former administrators of the Drug Enforcement Administration blasted Department of Justice Attorney General's decision to soften its stance on marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington. Those two states had allowed legalization of marijuana after voter-approved ballot measures. Over two dozen other states, as well as D.C. allow medicinal marijuana.
The United States Justice Department will not challenge laws in the two states, Colorado and Washington, which legalized the recreational use of marijuana.
Daniel Chong, a university student in San Diego has received $4.1 million dollars from the U.S. government after he was abandoned for more than four days in a prison cell, his lawyer said, as reported by the BBC. Chong said he drank his urine to stay alive, and tried to carve a message to his mother on his arm
The Justice Department obtained a portfolio of Fox News' James Rosen, including a record of his conversations and visits as part of an investigation into a possible leak.
The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for the Associated Press in which AP President a CEO Gary Pruitt called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.
