U.S. Department of Justice

Bartice "Cool" King: Arrested For Running Billion-Dollar Offshore Betting Company Legendz Sports

A Spring man was arrested yesterday for being one of the masterminds behind Legendz Sports, a billion-dollar offshore betting company. Federal agents arrested King and three others from the Houston area as part of a sweep that resulted in indictments against 34 individuals and 23 corporate entitie ... More >>

Bloody Tide: How Puerto Rico Affects the U.S.

As Puerto Rico is battered by a wave of drugs and brazen murders, Houston and other continental U.S. cities feel the blowback.

DOJ Eyes Will Be On the Ground in Harris, Fort Bend counties on Election Day

Voters in Harris and Fort Bend counties will get an extra treat on Election Day: Federal poll watchers. As a result of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (now 47 years old!), the federal government attempts to make sure every registered voter regardless of race, color "or membership in a minority langua ... More >>

Country Club Sopranos

American banks are on a massive crime spree. Obama and Romney hope you won’t notice.

Alexander Fishenko: Houston Company Schemed To Get High-Tech Hardware To Russian Military & Spies, Feds Say

Did you feel a chilling breeze of Cold War nostalgia wafting though Houston today? Yeah, neither did we. But we could have, because the elements were present as U.S. Department of Justice officials here and in New York announced they'd busted a major ring credited with supplying secret high-tech h ... More >>

Javier Alan Correa: Corpus Man Indicted For Threatening Tennessee Mosque

The feds have indicted a Corpus Christi man for threatening a controversial Tennessee mosque with a bomb. Javier Alan Correa, 24, called the under-construction mosque in Murfreesboro last September 5 and said, "On Sept. 11, 2011, there's going to be a bomb in the building." The Mufreesboro mosque ... More >>

Protecting Gay Kids

Schools are finally getting tougher on gay bullying.

Feds Block Texas's Voter ID Law: Unfair to Hispanics, They Say

Texas's strict new voter ID law, put in place by this past session's Tea Party legislature to stem the tidal wave of voter fraud that is actually not happening at all, has been blocked by the U.S. Department of Justice. The new law unfairly targets Hispanic voters, the feds said. "[T]he state has ... More >>

In Memoriam: Megaupload (2005 - 2012)

Yesterday, one of our favorite file sharing sites was struck by a government takedown around the early portions of the morning. It was swift, it was brutal and it could have been blamed on Kim Kardashian. Losing MegaUpload was a giant blow to musicians who love uploading zip or rar files of thei ... More >>

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Lost Boys

New research demolishes the stereotype of the underage sex worker — and sparks an outbreak of denial among child-sex-trafficking alarmists nationwide.

After a Lot of Bitching, City Council Approves Adding Two New Seats

Meetings will get even longer....​It took a surprising amount of bitching and complaining from people who apparently don't like to share the spotlight, but the city council has approved Mayor Annise Parker's plan to go ahead and add two district seats to the elected panel. The city declared t ... More >>

Delma Pallares: Whistleblower Helped Feds Catch Guy Who Ripped Off Troops Is Still Fighting

Berg & Androphy attorneys (from left) Sarah Frazier, Joel Androphy and Kathryn Nelson. ​"Jipped," this week's cover story in the Houston Press, explores the case of American Grocers, Inc., a Houston-based company that exports food to the Middle East (working, in part, off military contracts), ... More >>

Alberto Gonzalez: Former Houstonian, Former Attorney General, Needs Your Cash

Alberto Gonzalez: Give `til it hurts​Alberto Gonzalez, the pride of Houston's Vinson & Elkins, memorably served as Attorney General under George W. Bush. Sure, there were a few bumps along the way, what with the torture and helping Karl Rove purge the roster of U.S. Attorneys in a way that an ... More >>

Asylum Denied

Unlike refugees from other troubled countries, only a fraction of Mexicans seeking U.S. asylum are accepted – no matter how horrible their wounds or their stories.

Texas Has Fewer Inmates; What The Hell Are We Doing Wrong?

​The U.S. Department of Justice recently released a report about state prison populations, and Texas was one of six states with large decreases in the number of people incarcerated.  These numbers continue, the report says, "the trend of slower growth observed in the prison population since 2 ... More >>

Aquatico: Feds Make An Example Of Sugar Land Company For NOT Hiring An Immigrant

Hire those immigrants, dammit!​When the Department of Justice puts out a press release about a local employer getting penalized over immigration issues, it's usually because the company has been hiring illegal aliens.Not so with Sugar Land's Aquatico Pool Managment: The DOJ announced today they ha ... More >>

Army Helmets Made By Beaumont Prisoners Are Recalled For Safety Hazards

Vic Morrow, dealing with the scum who made him a crappy helmet​It looks like it's getting harder to find good help these days -- especially when the help are federal prisoners: earlier this month, the U.S. Army recalled 44,000 helmets manufactured by Beaumont inmates working for Federal Pris ... More >>

Army Officer Shouldn't Have Taken Those Iraq Bribes, But Dammit, She Needed The Plastic Surgery

​The Department of Justice announced today that Theresa Russell, a former staff sergeant, pleaded guilty money laundering while stationed in Iraq. It wasn't all that much of a surprise, since two years ago the guy who gave her the bribes pleaded guilty to doing so.Russell, 40, was at Camp Anaconda ... More >>

Magnolia City Mixtape: New Videos, 7-Inches, Poster Shows, National Blogpress... Enough to Make You Think We've Got an Actual Scene Around Here

Well, the Justice Department has approved the Live Nation/Ticketmaster monopoly merger. What does this mean for you, the average concertgoer? Well, even more inflation on the already-ridiculous $6 Lone Stars at House of Blues. Free Press Houston had a well-written cover story last spring about the ... More >>

When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind Our Financial Collapse?

​President Obama and his new administration were going to be so tough on the corporate villains who had such a large role in fostering the recession that has upended the finances of so many. But as author James Lieber points out in this week's cover story "No Justice," that just hasn't happen ... More >>

No Justice

We've bailed out the banks. When do we go after the crooks behind our financial collapse?

Jail Hell

Inmates emerging from the Harris County Jail tell remarkably similar stories of horrible conditions inside.

Everyone's a Critic: ACLU vs. Harris County vs. DOJ vs. HCJ

​The ACLU of Texas is criticizing Harris County's criticism of the U.S. Department of Justice's criticism of Harris County Jail. Hair Balls isn't sure who to criticize yet. In a press release, the state chapter's legal director calls County Attorney Vince Ryan's response to the DOJ ... More >>

Perhaps The Internet-Cafe Trend In Nederland Was Overstated

​Just as we were trying to figure out why there were internet cafes in Nederland and Port Arthur, we find out that the places were actually fronts for illegal gambling, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The department announced yesterday that six people were charged with running the gam ... More >>

"Gabacho" isn't the only bad word we've got for you...

The Recruit

Places all over Houston want Trevor Falk and pitch the wonders of community life. He is 24 and has Down syndrome, which makes him a hot commodity for private group homes.

Someone Has To Keep Up With the Pot Demand From HISD Teachers

Another HISD teacher's been nabbed for pot today; this time a special-ed teacher from the Harper Alternative School. This makes about 14 billion HISD teachers arrested in the last two weeks, officials estimate. (And by "officials," we mean us.)So the U.S. Department of Justice's newest National Drug ... More >>

Janet Napolitano = Homeland Futility

Janet Napolitano’s sorry service in Arizona makes her a terrible choice for Homeland Security secretary.

Bribery Time In Sleepy Ol' Hempstead

Ahh, it’s nice to see that small-town corruption is alive and well. And only an hour’s drive from Houston, no less. It appears as though a pair of city officials in the Waller County ‘burg of Hempstead, the self-proclaimed “City of Character,” have gone and gotten themselves arrested ... More >>

Feds Investigate Harris County Jail Again

School Board Gets The Boot In North Forest ISD

Steroids and Roger Clemens: Reports of Indictment Greatly Exaggerated

Press 1 for English

This Just In: FBI Opens Investigation of Clemens

Steroids and Roger Clemens: Justice Department to Investigate Rocket

Cocaine Redux

Mexican-American Culture

War on bin Laden -- or Unions?

Bush's battle against terrorism now bars some federal labor activities

Drug Money

Narcotics task forces in Texas spend millions of dollars each year busting low-level users and dealers. Is it money well spent, or are officers just addicted to easy cash?

Stale Mail at the Fed

Urine, tax returns, and credit card payments pile up at the federal building

Swamp Ghosts

Racial tensions still haunt Geno Delafose's Louisiana stomping ground

Fed-up Feds

Will the "temp" United States Attorney exile dissidents to the border?

Betti's Blue Notes

Singing (and Stinging) in the rain

Summer Reruns at Hotel Six

Been there, done that, doing it again

The Insider

The Boy Scouts

The head feds in the City Hall sting are known for their pursuit of minority politicians

The Insider

Deano's Disclosure

Singleton signed the Post's death warrant long before it expired

The Cloud Over Lightning Strike

Did the U.S. government spend $2 million just to nail little guys like David Proctor?