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Following efforts with our interagency partners, I can report that a career Director level employee at US Customs and Border Protection has been charged with allegedly attempting to defraud FEMA, as well as lying to federal agents.. This is part of the new FBI’s renewed efforts to crack down on public corruption and deliver accountability for the American people. Justice will be done. Thanks to our partners @AGPamBondi @TheJusticeDept and our @FBIDetroit team for their work.

Barack Obama’s legacy was already on thin ice after many of his signature programs were dismantled during President Trump’s first year in office, and concerns over bias emerged within the Department of Justice. Now, another blow to the 44th president’s White House tenure has come to light. While the bias concerns at the DOJ continue, another scandal regarding impartiality is gaining momentum, but this time it’s within a federal agency called the Chemical Safety Board. A House investigative subcommittee is directing the EPA to investigate one of the officials Obama appointed while in office, after anti-lobbying laws were allegedly violated...

Testing is set to resume next week on the blowout preventer that failed to stop gushing oil at BP's Macondo well, but an independent federal agency that has been probing the disaster will not be permitted to participate. Under a federal judge's ruling, the only witnesses allowed during the examination at a NASA facility in New Orleans will be representatives of the Justice Department, oil spill victims in a broad class-action lawsuit and three companies linked to the disaster. That shuts the door to the Chemical Safety Board… CSB has investigated more than 50 industrial accidents in its two-decade history...

NORFOLK Four Community Services Board [1] executives and an assistant who knew an employee was collecting a salary with benefits for 12 years without showing up for work have been fired or forced to resign, the head of the agency said Friday. The agency is turning over its findings to the FBI, state and city police for their investigations, CSB Executive Director Maureen Womack said. The agency found no evidence that other staffers collected any of the money Jill McGlone received, Womack said. No additional firings are expected for now. Depending on additional evidence found by law enforcement agents, there...

"No thanks, uncle Sam Representatives from an anti-arms procurement alliance yesterday stage a protest in front of the Legislative Yuan, condemning the US for ``bullying'' Taiwan over the purchase plan." PHOTO: CHU PEI-HSIUNG, TAIPEI TIMES