a business model for america and an integral part of that of course is the department of justice one would think that arresting a few of these bankers who pushed these fraudulent mortgages upon the population and then sold these fraudulent mortgages to our pension funds would you know the department of justice would be going after the no no no headline reads department of justice crackdown on wall street is just a p.r. stunt targeting small time crooks so this is about operation broken trust and this is attorney general eric holder is going after a collection of ponzi schemes foreign currency frauds investment scams and other market cons so there are three hundred forty three defendants facing criminal charges one hundred eighty nine facing civil charges for a sum total of eight point three billion in investment scam say operated who. rages. we're going to look the five trillion and scams go by the wayside well actually this article is there ahead sites andrew ross sorkin in the new york times he says something similar to that in his article pulling back the curtain on fraud inquiries

he also stated that the department of justice's office of professional responsibility would investigate the actions of the two officers, yet a year after that, we still have heard nothing out of office regarding their conduct. the department of justice has publicly talked about how they increased training in terms of discovery obligations, and they have issued memos in terms of what they are supposed to be doing, yet they have yet to do anything regarding the behavior of those prosecutors. contrast that to the case that occurred a couple years ago, that boasts -- that of the prosecutor in north carolina, where six months after the charges were brought against the lacrosse students, and they were charged with rape, the defense attorneys uncovered evidence in the files, and north carolina is open, but they found evidence in the files showing their clients were innocent. the state attorney general immediately dismissed the charges against those individuals, and a few months after that, he was disbarred for withholding evidence and evidence of innocence as well as improper statements he mad

by then the commander and national institute of justice award, the san francisco police department has 1151 unsolved homicides over the last 25 years and 900 reported but unsold rates over the past 10 years. there is a 10 year statute of limitations for rape cases. meaning that we would look at cases from 2001 through the present. during the two years from 2007 to 2009, 70% of the department investigating homicides or sexual assaults and as a result the district attorney's office was able to charge 33% of sexual assaults in and 60% of the homicides. the police department is very interested in obtaining resources to focus on cold cases to go after perpetrators before they can offend again and not without the funding to hire three part-time experienced investigators with testing lab services and training and travel and we currently have four investigators. this project will enhance our knowledge base through cold case training, assisting the department in developing strategies for resolution of violence, sexual assault cases. many of the cold cases will be examined and 100 selected for f

the usda and the department of justice have established the agricultural competition joint task force to explore new opportunities for harnessing each other's expertise ad improving enforcement of the laws decided to protect producers and protect the beef producers. in particular usda and the department of justice establish a process to handle complaints for unfair and deceptive practices in the poultry industry to more effeively and timely results cases, something that we feel will further facilitate addressing concerns we have heard of the alabama workshop. enforcement of the packers and stockyards act was mentioned many times the workshops. and in the past few years, the president has increased the budget to inude enforcement over unfair and deceptive practices in the marketplace. and the department is hiring attorneys to field investigators to how your complex investigations and other violations. usda's grain inspection come packers and stockyards administration, gipsa, published a proposed rule last sar for fairness and the marketing of livestock ad poultry. we know it is sparked

usda we take the warning signs very seriously and have taken a number of steps the usda and department of justice have the established agricultural competition joint task force to explore new opportunities for harnessing expertise and improving enforcement of laws designed to protect cruisers. particularly usda and the department of justice set. the new department to handle complaints for unfair and deceptive practices in poultry and timely resolve cases. something we feel will further facilitate concerns we heard at the alabama workshop. enforcement was mentioned many times in the workshops. in the past few years the president has increased the budget to improve enforcement of were unfair and deceptive practices in the marketplace and the department is hiring new attorneys and field investigators for various violations. the grand inspection propose a rule last summer about fairness when it comes to poultry. is provoked considerable interest and discussion and we have a public comment which we heard in the colorado work shot. we will begin in earnest and in good faith to process these comments an

megyn: the department of justice plans on appealing, but will it win? let's ask our panel.larsh. this is interesting. now we have a split. two federal district courts that say it's constitutional. we have this federal district court saying no it's not constitutional in a 42-page opinion. joey, his right and how does this court -- let's forget the lower courts. it will go up to the supreme court. how will it play out? >> i think ultimately we'll see the law will be declared constitutional. here is why. you can't look at health insurance and say -- you can't say it's commodity. a commodity in terms of purchasing boots, shoes, something. it has a broad effect. a person's health has wide ranging effects on other people. for the court to give the indication it would be the first time there would be a mandate that a person with have to enter it for the private market, that's not true. if you look at car insurance, there is a mandate that we purchase that. because a mandate because what we do and how we drive affects other people. a person's health by necessity affects other peopl

. >>> the department of justice is being called in to investigate the shooting of an unarm manned on november 8. police responded to a domestic disturbance call regarding derrick jones. no weapon was found, now police chief decided to call in the fbi to conduct an independent investigation. spokesperson explains why. >> we understand that the public needs further outside investigation and we are open to that. we want to make sure the public feels comfortable with the findings so we are inviting the fbi. >> police will give the fbi complete access to whatever they need during the course of the investigation. >>> second person died after a shooting in sacramento and police are searching for a suspect. it happened tuesday afternoon. the man was hit in the chest. a mother was also killed. she was loading her child into a car seat and considered an innocent bystander. police say she used herb body to protect her child. police identified the shooter as lonny mitchell who is still on the loose tonight. they say he is armed and dangerous. >>> major distinction for a y >>> sheriff deputies wi

or the department of justice say to them then? now is the time to decide whether we want four or five companies owning and delivering all content. imagine a world with no independent voices and no competition. now, let me go back specifically to comcast and not just about its cable profile. let's talk about comcast control of the internet. there is no better example how -- of how comcast plans to use its virtual monopoly than what we have seen in the past few weeks with its treatment of netflix. i think we can all agree that netflix has changed the way many americans watch movies, and it all started because one of its founders was sick of paying late fees for movie rentals. this s&p is one of -- this company is one of our nation's great success stories. it now has almost 17 million subscribers and generates hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, and it all happened in just over a decade. but most importantly, it offered an alternative and less expensive option for consumers to watch movies. netflix now has a lot of money and

of their products. the u.s. a culture department and the justice department post this event. it is an hour and 35 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> good morning, everyone. certainly want to welcome everybody to the usda for the fifth and final in a series of competition workshops held jointly by the usda and the department of justice to explore the appropriate role for antitrust and regulatory enforcement and american agriculture. i want to welcome the panelists will introduce in just a few minutes, and my good friend, the attorney general, who will also introduce in just a second. in my travels across the country, i've heard from those concerned about the future of american agriculture's. in these workshops we have been looking at a wide range of issues regarding competition and agriculture. and today we look at the dynamics and the interplay between age segment of the chain, margins in the livestock poultry and dairy industries and issues in the retail sector. the obama administration is committed to the most open transparent in history which is why we look forward to this dialogue with a diverse gro

cardin: we are talking about the number-two person in the department of justice. one of our responsibilities is to make sure that executive agencies perform their functions, and the judiciary committee has a responsibility to make sure the department of justice is doing its work. madam president, we, the judiciary committee, has recommended the confirmation of the deputy attorney general six months ago, and how can we expect the attorney general to get the work done if we do not give him the help in confirmation process? we should have the courage to vote up or down a deputy attorney general. i really took this time because i find this amazing that jim coe coe -- jim kohl has not been confirmed. i've had experience of working with jim kohl in my official capacity as members of congress. he wasn't selected by me. at the time porter goss was the chairman of our committee, a republican from florida. and he worked with six of us in a very difficult investigation, and he brought the six of us together because of the professional manner in which jim kohl attacks any of t

the website shows the conviction that sent him to prison and says the department of justice doesn't know whether eugene melendres ramos committed other felonies since there. according to jail records he is unemployed and if convicted on the charges, his wrap sheet will get a lot longer. jonathan bloom, kron 4 news. >>> we have new details new on a story that we told you about earlier today. the san francisco recreation and parks commission voted tonight to close a recycling center near golden gate park. the battle pitted park neighbors against homeless advocates. 100 people showed up to speak out on the issue. they were split, some thinking it contributes to homelessness and drug use, others say it helps the homeless make a living off of recycling. the plan is to pull the center out of the location and replace it with a garden. >>> san francisco man who admitted to threatening nancy pelosi was sentenced to 21 months in prison. he pleaded guilty on one count. he made more than 30 threatening phone calls to nancy pelosi holmes in washington d.c. -- nancy pelosi's home in washington d.c. >>

postal inspection service, secret service, the department of justice, the irs, the sec, the ftc, commodity futures trading commission, and the national association of attorneys general, together, we're smarter, stronger, seek those who look to profit from the people of united states of america. thank you. >> today's announcement is called operation broken trust for a reason. trust is broken when a 24-year- old financially unsophisticated blind man with a disability, whose mother is unemployed, is misled with lies and half truths to invest the money he obtained from the very accident that caused his blindness and loses his entire investment. trust is broken when financial creditors take aim at the death, the elderly, and the retired and the unsophisticated and convince them to invest their hard earned money and steal their money and squander it on lavish weddings, fine restaurants, exotic vacations, and vacation homes as is the case in many of the matters brought today. trust is broken when victims of investment deceit lose their retirement income, the home- equity, even their life savings

. >> and i would think that if the department of justice had some real issues, that the appropriate thing, the business thing for them would be to communicate directly with the leadership of the city. >> reporter: city councilmember dudley brooks says neither her colleagues nor she has heard anything from the department of justice about oakland's efforts to license and tax wholesale pot operations. setting up a city operation marijuana operation of this type could be considered illegal and city councilmembers could risk prosecution. while the city attorney's office says attorney client privilegvi limits what he can talk about. >> i thought that the district attorney's letter was useful because it pointed out where the deficiencies were and how you might correct them. the city attorney's opinion on the other hand said don't do this. >> reporter: some potential growers have thought twice about getting involved because of the strict regulations, before licensed growers would have to pay $210,000 in licensing fees to the city in order to operate the cultivation sites. >> people thought that w

the obama administration officials and the department of justice will most likely appeal the case. it may well end up in the supreme court. abc news washington. >>> the man accused of blowing up a military recruitment center will be held until trial. they arrested and teddy martinez in a sting operation after he planned to detonate a car bomb. they say the fed's trapped her son and that he is not violence. came up with the bomb plot himself. >> a local twist in wikileaks. >>> the lawyer says a secret grand jury is meeting in alexandria today and considering criminal charges against the wikileaks founder. since last month, the website has been releasing 250,000 secret diplomatic cables. they have vowed to prosecute. he is also wanted for questioning in sweden in connection with sexual assault charges. key surrender to british police last week. >>> connection with a bombing that killed six. the americans died on sunday in the southern kandahar province. this is the deadliest attacks of far this month. taliban is claiming responsibility. >>> richard holbrooke is in critical condition r

michelle, what do you make about this, the department of justice is suing on behalf of a muslim womano mecca, which begs the question, why is the united states department of justice involved in this? >> well, i've long said of this justice department that it is more appropriately titled the department of social justice because the attorney general, eric holder, is essentially a social justice activist who has the power to selectively enforce the law. this woman may or may not have a case. i'll leave that for the courts to adjudicate. but the problem is that you have an attorney general who has completely diminished credibility when it comes to neutral application of the law and we have many whistle blowers, j. christian adams among them, who talked about the explicit social activist agenda of this justice department and, of course, he has explicitly promised muslim groups that -- he's pandered to them and talked about the need to put their agenda up front in the civil rights legislation. >> brian: in all practicality, if you were a small business owner and you want to hire somebody, b

now the department of justice has slapped the district with a lawsuit saying the district discriminatedainst her, violated the civil rights act of 1964 by failing to accommodate her religious practices. the feds now want the school to give her back her job, to give her all her back pay and to pay damages which so far are undisclosed. now, critics say, look, if she has a sabbatical she can take, she should take it. if she's not allowed to, she should not. the school district, by the way, has not yet commented. we called 'em, they're not talking about this at all, and we should note the hajj this year was in november. but because the muslims follow the lunar calendar, the hajj slips forward 11 days every year. still no comment, the justice department filing that lawsuit against the berkeley school district, megyn. megyn: all right, trace, thanks. one federal court ruling and suddenly the health care overhaul debate is raging again. is this thing even constitutional, and will it survive a supreme court challenge? we'll have some answers right after this break. >>> plus, wait until you see

by the way, very quickly, the department of justice who is fighting this, they are saying this is in essence a tax, which is something president obama has said the mandate was not. jenna: that's part of the ruling. we'll look through it a little bit more. stand by. we have greta sitting by, jon. jon: the attorney general of the state of virginia is a effect guest of greta on on the record, her program, greta of course an attorney herself and she joins us now. he has to be filing right now, greta. >> reporter: i haven't met with him, i just read the decision and it certainly is fascinating to this virginia law, what it is is actually 1501 of the act commonly known as the mini sepbgs alcoverage provision has been declared unconstitutional. what it means is -- for the larger picture is that it has to do with the commerce clause which of course is one of the allegations in the florida case. the 20 states there have alleged that the federal government exceeded it's commerce clause power. what the judge said here is this is not economic activity. forcing someone to buy something is not econ

. >> the federal government is investigating a series of cyber attacks, department of justice announcedthey're working with the private sector on those denial of service attacks over the last week, several companies including am amazon, visa and mastercard have been targeted by self described hacktivists. the attacks against the companies follow a launch this week against the wiki leaks site. >> and students in southern california protests because of rising costs here, but students clashed with police in a violent confrontation in london today. this started after lawmakers voted to approve a huge increase in tus yigs. -- tuition. students say it's going to be devastating to family autos it's calling it disgraceful. i have 12 cousins they're going to be devastate bid this debt. their parents goring to be devastated. >> protestors attacked a car carrying prince charles and his wife. 13 prot yefrtz injured and seven people arrested. the government says the increased tuition is part of a $127 billion budget cut package affecting everything from the military to the royal household. >> let's

. >> reporter: the senior obama administration official tells abc news the department of justice will most likely appeal the case. a case that may well end up in the supreme court. >>> michael steel is the chairman of the national republican party but will he keep that job? he's expected to let us know tonight if he's interested. there's criticism about his leadership and he's lost a lot of backing. >>> if all you want for christmas is a job, we may be able to help you. for every open job there's at least four other people looking at the same job. we'll tell you how to stand out in the crowd. >>> a massive storm covering much of the u.s. is now heading east. a look at the blizzard conditions the storm left behind and a look at what we can expect, coming up. >>> take a look at these pictures and realize things could have been worse. temperatures are expected to drop to 15 degrees today. >> reporter: the massive storm covering some 1500 miles have been on the move since friday and now the monster blizzard is heading east. >> i think maybe once ever seen this in ten years that i've ever

so working with our partners at hud, our partners at the department of justice, as well as the administration for children and families, we are trying to make sure that the federal government plays a critical partnership with the ngos in the community. excellent. well, i want to remind our audience that september is national alcohol and drug addiction recovery month. i want to encourage you to go to the web site, www.recoverymonth.gov, to get more information, and to get engaged, and do an event in september. it's been great having you. great show. for a copy of this program, or other programs in the road to recovery series, call samhsa at 1-800-662-help, or order online at recoverymonth.gov and click multimedia. every september, national alcohol and drug addiction recovery month provides an opportunity for communities like yours to raise awareness of alcohol and drug use disorders and highlight the effectiveness of treatment. in order to help you plan events and activities in commemoration of this year's recovery month observance, the free recovery month kit offers ideas, materials, and tool

. >> they contacted the department of justice to look into the case. thank on time for good behavior, they're about six months to serve. they say it's likely it will not be ready to file until after he was out of prison. in los angeles, call for news. >> showing rain in the north bay, but no one -- it's too dry out there. not seeing rain fall from the ground. you'll see quite a bit of it. plenty of cloud cover streaming in as well. we've seen very in the way of rain. not even a quarter of an inch of rain, less than a 10th of an inch. 1/100th of an inch. light rain tomorrow morning if any dry. if you see anything at 8:00 and noon. we head into 3:00 hour especially into the afternoon, chances of rain will increase. we'll talk about that coming up in just a minute. >>> the experts say the economy is on the rebound. an unexpected report suggests a new jump in unemployment, just how many more jobs was lost, how the stock market responded. what it may means in the long rung. just ahead on kron4 news. [ woman on tv ] if you won't let me in, you can't really l

. >> reporter: the department of justice most likely will repeal the case. >>> some sad news to share tonight. richard holbrook has died or he was hospitalized friday after collapsing at the state department be he underwent 20 hours of surgery to repair a tear in his ardrey. he played a key role in the afghan peace efforts. he was 69 years old. >>> call him the man of steel. michael steele announces tonight he wants to run again for a second term. it is no secret this'll be the toughest fight of his political career because five other republicans want the same job. he said, i am asking you tonight for your support for a second term. a lot of republicans are unhappy with his fundraising efforts and management style. >>> republicans, independents, and democrats are joining forces for a new movement called "no labels" to find nonpartisan solutions to some of the nation's biggest problems. >>> he could not sleep, could not eat, and you are not even playing but such is the life of a ravens fan these days peewee went over to the park to see how fans are managing tonight. >> it has been kind