Michael Mukasey

Corporations and execs need penalties that hurt

2013-01-05 10:18:00

If you're concerned about corporate crime, 2012 looked like a pretty successful year for the good guys. The Thousand Oaks biotech giant Amgen paid $762 million in fines and penalties and pleaded guilty to a federal charge related to illegal marketing of...

McManus: A Gingrich presidency?

2012-01-29 00:00:00

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote that if Mitt Romney won the South Carolina primary, the Republican presidential race would be over and he would be the nominee. But Romney didn't win, and that means it's time to consider the unthinkable: What would life...

Newt Gingrich throws the book at federal judges

2011-12-19 21:36:11

News Corp. independent directors hire law firm

2011-07-19 16:33:13

Weekly remarks: Lindsey Graham on terror trials; Obama on pay-as-you-go budgeting

2010-02-13 04:34:40

Justice wiretap probe restarted

2007-11-14 00:00:00

The Justice Department revealed Tuesday that it has reopened an internal investigation into whether department lawyers acted unethically or broke any laws in connection with the government's warrantless electronic surveillance of terrorism suspects....

A FISA fix

2007-12-12 00:00:00

One of the most critical matters facing Congress is the need to enact long-term legislation updating our nation's foreign intelligence surveillance laws. Intercepting the communications of terrorists and other intelligence targets has given us crucial...

Judges seek leeway in prison sentences

2007-09-29 00:00:00

Marion Hungerford, a 52-year-old woman diagnosed with a mental illness, was convicted two years ago as an accomplice after her live-in boyfriend pleaded guilty to a series of armed robberies in Billings, Mont. Her sentence: 159 years in federal prison....

Sen. Feinstein: Judge Mukasey has my vote

2007-11-03 00:00:00

During a long career in public service and private practice, Michael B. Mukasey has forged an independent path as a lawyer and federal judge. He has presided over 1,600 cases in almost 19 years on the bench. He has extensive experience on national...

Mukasey's confession

2008-02-02 00:00:00

'Out of the mouths of babes," goes the old saying -- to which we now may add, "and from the mouths of attorneys general." When Atty. Gen. Michael B. Mukasey went before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week to testify about the Bush administration's...

Mukasey's black magic on torture

2007-11-01 00:00:00

Maybe it was in honor of the Halloween season. The Bush administration's Justice Department has been a horror show for years now, complete with gruesome exhibits like the infamous 2002 "torture memo." And in his recent Senate confirmation hearings, the...

Democrats demand probe into destruction of tapes

2007-12-08 00:00:00

Key members of Congress on Friday called for multiple investigations into the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes, charging the agency may have eliminated evidence of torture, obstructed justice or engaged in an illegal coverup. The CIA's...

El Sayyid Nosair, left, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, center, and 13 codefendants appear at their arraignment in New York in Aug. 26, 1993. They faced charges of conspiring to bomb targets including the World Trade Center and planning assassinations and kidnappings. Judge Michael Mukasey and Assistant U.

2013-05-14 15:07:19

Protesters hold up signs during attorney general nominee Eric Holder's confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

2009-01-15 00:00:00

A Justice Department spokesman said last December that Atty. Gen. Michael Mukasey had recused himself from the investigation into Bernard L. Madoff .

2008-12-12 00:00:00