WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: Following a comprehensive investigation, the Justice Department announced today that the Mount Vernon, New York, Police Department (MVPD) engages in a pattern or practice of conduct that deprives people of rights secured by the U.S. Constitution and federal law. Specifically, the Justice Department finds that MVPD: * Uses excessive force in numerous ways, including by unnecessarily escalating minor encoun  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: A New Jersey doctor was arrested yesterday for unlawfully distributing oxycodone and other controlled substances. According to court documents, Larry Pettis, 76, of Westampton, owned a medical practice that had multiple locations in New Jersey that purported to provide pain management and other services. Pettis allegedly pre-signed prescriptions for controlled substances so that another individual, who was  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following news release: The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Chibuzo Augustine Onyeachonam, Stanley Chidubem Asiegbu, and Chukwuebuka Martin Nweke-Eze with fraud for impersonating legitimate securities brokers and investment advisers in an elaborate online scheme through which the defendants stole more than $2.9 million from at least 28 investors. As alleged in the SEC's complaint, from at least 2019 to th  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- The White House issued the following transcript of a news briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby: * * * MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Hello. Hi, everybody.  Q Hi. MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Happy Thursday. (Ms. Jean-Pierre adjusts the lectern.) Just mess- -- be messing with this lectern. Okay. So, today, President Biden announced that he is granting clemency to approximately 1,500 Americans -- the largest act in a single day -  more