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From New York to DC, associates of former President Donald Trump were surely feeling new heat from the Justice Department on Tuesday.

Federal prosecutors have asked the House of Representatives committee investigating the 6 January 2021 attack on the Capitol to provide transcripts of witness interviews and depositions taken by committee members and staff, according to a New York Times report.A “person with knowledge of the matter” told the Times committee chairman Bennie Thompson has not reached any agreement with Attorney General Merrick Garland or other Justice Department officials regarding what, if any, documents will be provided.But the department has been in communication with the panel since 20 April, when Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite and District of Columbia US Attorney...

WASHINGTON — Justice Department officials heading up the criminal investigation into the attack on the U.S. Capitol have asked a House committee for transcripts of interviews conducted in its Jan. 6 investigation, another sign the Justice Department is widening its inquiry. The chief of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division,...

The panel's chair, Rep. Bennie Thompson, said the committee won’t hand over its “work product” but might invite department officials to review the documents in committee offices.

The civil lawsuit is the first such enforcement action under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) in more than 30 years, officials said.

Click here to read the full article. The Justice Department has asked the Jan. 6 committee to turn over transcripts of interviews it has conducted, signaling that Attorney General Merrick Garland’s probe into the attack on the Capitol could be intensifying. The New York Times reported the news on Tuesday, noting that the committee was made aware last month that interviews it had conducted “may contain information relevant to a criminal investigation we are conducting,” as Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite and U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves wrote to the committee. Polite and Graves requested the panel “provide to us transcripts of...

Rep. Bennie Thompson confirmed to reporters that the requests were made, but there has been no agreement as to what documents would be turned over.

The Justice Department has asked the committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection to hand over transcripts of the panel's witness depositions as part of its investigation, a committee spokesman and another source familiar with the matter told CNN on Tuesday.

May 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday sued former casino magnate Stephen Wynn to register as a foreign agent. Wynn in 2017 pushed then-President Donald Trump and members of his administration to cancel the visa or otherwise remove a Chinese businessman seeking asylum in the United States at the request of China's government and Sun Kijun, who served as China's vice minister for public security at the time, the lawsuit states.

The Department of Justice has requested that the January 6 select committee share their transcripts from their investigation into the Capitol riot. NBC's Ryan Reilly reports.May 18, 2022.

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department sued casino mogul Steve Wynn Tuesday to force him to register as a lobbyist in connection with his 2017 efforts to obtain a diplomatic favor long sought by Chinese authorities. The lawsuit comes almost a year after the department told Wynn to register under...

Justice Department officials heading up the criminal investigation into the attack on the U.S. Capitol have asked a House committee for transcripts of interviews conducted in its Jan. 6 investigation. NYT reporter Luke Broadwater and former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade discusses.May 18, 2022.

The Justice Department sued former longtime casino tycoon Steve Wynn on Tuesday to compel him to file as a foreign agent for allegedly lobbying former President Donald Trump on behalf of China in 2017, when he was Trump's hand-picked Republican National Committee finance chairman. The Justice Department asked Wynn to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) in 2018, 2021, and April, and took action now because he repeatedly refused to do so.