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The next time a lawyer/FBI official/Deputy Attorney General tries to convince you that your conduct is *not* being investigated because you're not a target/subject, just remember...
Matt Zapotosky
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Matt Zapotosky
@mattzap
Senior Director of White House and Capitol Hill coverage @CNN. Formerly @washingtonpost. Ohio U grad. Dad. Detroit Lions/Washington Nats/Cleveland Cavaliers fan
- Sixteen federal prosecutors specially assigned to monitor 2020 election malfeasance told AG Barr in a letter today they saw no evidence of substantial voting irregularities, & asked him to rescind his recent policy change. w/ @thamburger
- Just In: More than 500 law professors say Trump committed ‘impeachable conduct’ washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
- Barr claims a man collected 1,700 ballots and filled them out as he pleased. Prosecutors say that’s not what happened.
- BREAKING: Mueller told Bill Barr that Barr's depiction of his findings failed to capture ‘context, nature, and substance’ of the special counsel investigation. This was after Barr's letter to Congress describing Mueller's principal conclusions. Story TK
- AG Bill Barr, on Fox News, refers to current restrictions as "draconian measures" and says at end of April, he thinks we should "allow people to adapt more than we have, & not just tell people to go home and hide under their bed."
- A former Marine was pulled over for following a truck too closely. Without charging him, police took nearly $87,000 of his cash.
- JUST IN: AG Merrick Garland has relaxed Trump-era restrictions on the Justice Department’s ability to force changes at police departments and other local agencies accused of abuse, rescinding Jeff Sessions's 2018 memo that curtailed the use of consent decrees in such cases.
- Replying to @mattzapHis attorneys say that reinforces the inherent problem with asset forfeiture: Stephen Lara had $87K taken from him for more than six months by the government with no cause. And he only got it back after he got a lawyer & talked with the Washington Post.
- The signatories on this have grown to 650. When we first broke the news of the statement's existence yesterday shortly after 1 p.m. - just as it was made public - the count was at 375. The @protctdemocracy effort to collect those initial signatures was all behind the scenes.JUST IN: Trump would have been charged with obstruction based on Mueller's findings -- if he were he not president, hundreds of former federal prosecutors assert in letter washingtonpost.com/world/national…
- JUST IN: More than 1,250 former Justice Dept. workers call for internal watchdog to probe Barr role in clearing demonstrators from Lafayette Square
- JUST IN: Trump would have been charged with obstruction based on Mueller's findings -- if he were he not president, hundreds of former federal prosecutors assert in letter
- Replying to @mattzapI reached out to the Justice Dept, DEA & Nevada Highway Patrol on this yesterday, and everyone declined to comment. Today, moments after it published, DEA said it is returning Lara's money, & the Justice Department said it is "reviewing existing policy on adoptive forfeitures"
- On the anniversary of the day then-President Trump suggested injecting disinfectants to fight covid-19, the Justice Dept. announces it has indicted a Fla. family for selling bleach as a covid-19 cure.
