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Senior members of the White House and the Department of Justice participated in compiling the list of those to be dismissed. The USA Patriot Act Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005, which was signed into law on March 9, 2006, extinguished the former 120-day term limit of interim United States Attorneys appointed to fill vacated offices.
Section 3 of the Act authorizes additional funding to detect and prosecute fraud at various federal agencies, specifically: $165,000,000 to the Department of Justice, $30,000,000 each to the Postal Inspection Service and the Office of the Inspector General at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
The Act also mandates the National Bureau of Investigation and the Philippine National Police to organize a cybercrime unit staffed by special investigators whose responsibility will be to exclusively handle cases pertaining to violations of the Act, under the supervision of the Department of Justice. The unit is empowered to, among others ...
The following is a list of the 20 largest settlements reached between the United States Department of Justice and pharmaceutical companies from 2001 to 2012, ordered by the size of the total settlement. The settlement amount includes both the civil (False Claims Act) settlement and criminal fine.
Jimmy Carter signs Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments into law. The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as mandated by Public Law 95-452 (as amended), is established to protect the integrity of Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) programs, to include Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as the health and welfare of the ...
Legal opinions have varied as to whether the Wire Act applies only to sports betting, or applies to all forms of gambling, such as lotteries and casino games. In a 2002 letter to Nevada state officials, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) stated its opinion that the Wire Act "prohibits gambling over the Internet, including casino-style gambling."
On June 28, 2017, Kobach, in conjunction with the Department of Justice, asked every state for personal voter information. [6] The request was met with significant bipartisan backlash; 44 states and the District of Columbia declined to supply some or all of the information, citing privacy concerns or state laws.
Full text of statute from United States Department of Justice; The National Voter Registration Act of 1993: History, Implementation, and Effects Congressional Research Service; Eckman, Sarah J. (May 11, 2022). Federal Role in Voter Registration: The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and Subsequent Developments (Report).