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This week the January 6th Committee voted to make criminal referrals to the Justice Department, including the proposed indictment of former President Donald Trump. However, the Committee’s splashy finale lacked any substantial new evidence to make a compelling criminal case against former President Donald Trump. The Committee repackaged largely the same evidence that it has previously put forward over the past year. That is not enough. Indeed, the reliance on a new videotape of former Trump aide Hope Hicks seems a case of putting “hope over experience” in the criminal Justice system. While still based largely on the failure to...

(Reuters) - Federal prosecutors are developing a criminal fraud case hinged on whether General Motors made misleading statements about a deadly ignition switch flaw, and are examining activity dating back a decade, before GM's 2009 bankruptcy, according to multiple sources familiar with the investigation. At the same time, at least a dozen states are investigating the automaker. Two state officials said that effort is likely to focus on whether GM broke consumer protection laws. Both federal and state investigations into the switch, which is linked to at least 13 deaths and 54 crashes, are at early stages, and it is...

WASHINGTON -- Hey, feds, do you need a road map? Well, here it is. The charging documents in the sprawling House investigation into the shady, double-dipping deals of Charlie Rangel reads like a crime novel. Granted, it is not the seedy street crime of most summertime page-turners. It is the flashy, white-collar variety. The most obvious place for federal prosecutors to start in building a criminal case against Rangel might be the failure of the longtime top tax writer to properly report and pay his own federal taxes. Rangel has admitted that he failed to pay taxes on $75,000 in...