Anonymous ID: 667734 Sept. 24, 2018, 5:13 p.m. No.3171566   🗄️.is đź”—kun

A Rosenstein departure could raise new conflict-of-interest issues for Justice Dept

 

WASHINGTON — As conflicting reports emerged Monday about the future of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, three former senior officials familiar with the investigation he oversees into possible Russian collusion with 2016 Trump campaign said his departure would throw the Justice Dept. into turmoil and could raise serious new conflict-of-interest questions about oversight of the probe.

 

If Rosenstein is fired when he meets with President Trump Thursday, or if he resigns under pressure, the outcome is “fraught with peril with respect to the conclusion of the special counsel’s investigation — whether the investigation is allowed to continue to completion, and whether its results see the light of day,” David Laufman, the former chief of the Justice Department’s counterintelligence and export control section, said in an interview with Yahoo News. Laufman oversaw the Russia probe in its early stages in 2016 and continued to play a key role until the appointment of Robert Mueller in February 2017.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rosenstein-departure-raise-new-conflict-interest-issues-justice-220942587.html

Anonymous ID: 667734 Sept. 24, 2018, 5:26 p.m. No.3171728   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1772

New York Today: Behind a Police Department Scandal

 

Good morning on this fresh fall Monday.

 

It is one of the worst scandals to rock the New York Police Department in years: A retired police detective was arrested and accused of running a prostitution and gambling ring that brought in millions of dollars across the city. It was a business in which the ring leader relied on a group of police officers to protect the enterprise and foil any planned raids, according to the police.

 

A team of Times reporters spent a week piecing together the rise and fall of Ludwig Paz, the former detective whose years of wearing a badge in Brooklyn, the police said, would be on-the-job training for a second career running a ring of prostitutes and pimps.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/nyregion/new-york-today-behind-a-police-department-scandal.html