u.s. justice system and the role that racism may or may not play in the u.s. justice system. it says everything there is to say about it i think this is. poor minorities are expendable when there is this well of emotion around prime minister hariri. people's lives are lost as a result of somebody committing a shooting and it becomes less about it and less about the search for truth and more about holding someone accountable and because. people are africans and minorities and people don't have money. or it doesn't matter if you get to the truth. and untruth you. know go ahead go ahead try to have this case where they're going to do this is his we have a person the most logical person who did the shooting actually confessed to shooting her number of times or if you. know were children exploration or ignoring evidence. so what is the situation for trading us at the moment i mean is he pretty much set to be executed next month or are there some other options to sort of try to prevent this from taking place where there is no execution date yet right now georgia are. going to battl

u.s. justice department has announced he will be referred to a military commission for trial. it is a dramatic turnaround for the obama administration. the president pledged the high- profile suspects would be charged on the american mainland in federal court. >> the symbol on the war and terror of was to be closed more than a year ago. that was his pledge. not only is it still open, it will deliver military justice to five inmates including america's most notorious detainee. >> i am referring to cases -- the cases to the department of defense to proceed in military commissions. >> it is a u-turn. he administration had tried to reject plans to try the suspects -- and the administration hadn't planned to try the suspects -- the administration had planned to try the suspects on the mainland. >> the reality is that i know this case in the way that the members of congress did not. i have spoken to prosecutors, and of the tactical concerns. do i know better than them? yes. >> the man accused of planning and funding september 11, he expressed a desire to plead guilty and become a ma

well, that justice may be on the way. the u.s. senate's subcommittee on investigations this week issued a 650-page report titled "wall street and the financial crisis." gnat knee of a financial collapse. the bipartisan report targets four causes the financial meltdown, now and rocky recovery. reckless lending, banks load excessively high risk mortgages and social security that bundled riririririririririririri securities crashed. credit rating agencies. like moody says and standard & poors. they were giving tom ratings, triple-a, to junk securities based on bad mortgages. investment bank practices, like betting against securities that had told clients to buy. when those clients lost money, the bank gained. no real government oversight. notably the office of thrift supervision, a regulator of savings banks, was irresponsible in not stopping the issuance of high risk insufficiently secured mortgages. the u.s. justice department is now reviewing the bipartisan senate committee's report for possible criminal prosecution of any offendin

u.s. justice department will talk with the greater vallejo district and arrange a meeting with a native american group that opposes the plan. the project has sparked nearly two weeks of protest because it plans on building restrooms and a parking lot on the burial ground. >>> there were two long lines at glide memorial church. one to attend easter sunday services and the other for a nice, hot meal. the line for church wrapped around the block and several people admitted that they don't attend church regularly, but they prefer services at glide that are so inclusive. it is something that is the goal of the church which serves the under privileged. >> it has been a place for the liberation of people, putting it another way for the resurrection of the people. >> all kinds of people no matter what they suffer, we are trying to make sure that we -- that they find ways to do things for themselves and other people. >> after the services they provided a fried chicken easter dinner to 3,000 homeless and under served individuals and families. >>> the remarkable recovery of gabrielle giffords. it is going

u.s. justice department has never closed its lockerbie investigation and now the f.b.i. has a hot new lead. >> moussa koussa is going to be a very authoritative source of information that implicates qaddafi in a lot of events that are prosecutable. >> reporter: now, koussa may ultimately push for some kind of immunity if he's ever to deliver the good on qaddafi, but, frankly, after the outrage over megrahi's release, both u.s. and u.k. officials are not in a very charitable mood, and they promise to take a very tough line. erica. >> hill: bob, what's the thinking in terms of other focus that koussa may be able to deliver to interrogators? >> reporter: well, this is an important guy. he was one of qaddafi's closest aides. he ran intelligence in libya for about 15 years. most recently as you mentioned he was the foreign minister, so he knows about numerous past atrocities and, as one person said, he knows where all of the bodies are buried. also he knows about qaddafi's current state of mind. that's important. he has a read on other top libyan advisors and a good sense of

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u.s. justice department to determine whether or not charges should be filed still the damage has been done in america thanks to the behavior of goldman sachs of the bank stars or the five million jobs have been lost in this country since two thousand and eight twelve million homes have been foreclosed on or are in danger of foreclosure and tens of trillions of dollars have been sucked out of the american middle class this is the culmination of thirty years of tax cuts for the rich and financial deregulation the culmination of reaganomics a complete catastrophe a quick glance across the pond or a back really quick read through today's financial times tells a different tale of the effects of the two thousand and eight financial meltdown not everybody has suffered like the united states in fact some countries in europe are doing just fine thank you very much sweden today is planning tax cuts no not because they think paul ryan has a good idea when it comes to budgeting but instead because their economy is the fastest growing economy in europe and their government is starting to run surpluses

u.s. justice system couldn't handle or had some real problems came times with these detainees at the same time there's been opposition from new york lawmakers from democratic lawmakers from mayor bloomberg they did not want this trial so there's more it's more complicated than just opposition from republicans you know that are doing this based mainly on political moves like you said so would it have really been possible given that. you know i mean that's another area where unfortunately i think the administration botched that initiation and should have talked to those new york politicians first before they announced that they were going to bring mohammed and the coconspirators to new york for a trial they should have smooth the way there was really no reason not to bring them to new york for trial and yes political opposition grew out of a bunch of local concerns and local opposition mostly from business groups who were concerned about traffic tying up lower manhattan that didn't have to happen the administration could have handled that much more carefully talked through with the mayor wi

u.s. justice system fifteen of the police officers involved in collecting evidence in munoz trial were later charged with corruption and tampering with evidence to obtain a conviction fifteen of the thirty three a former journalist and black panther organizer as work is translated into several languages and distributed all over the world his analysis is a revolutionary announce that this ystem is rotten to its core that its races class is six just evil and that is they have the leader of an imperialist. nation of the world and they want people to hear that. he won't be us government denies holding political. isn't it was. the countless human rights activists from all over the planet kept up the voice of the wisdoms it's overdue that we believe symphony that he's an innocent man and his trial. with the joke was like a circus and he didn't try to use work monitored by the f.b.i. since he was fourteen years old to some he has become one of many fallen victim to a police state it's not a question of whether or not he's on a death penalty is not even a question of guilt or innocence it's a questi

u.s. justice. i would like to know what our administration's efforts are in the un to make the u.s. embargo more of a multilateral support effort. >> thank you, mr. rivera. mr. sicily. >> thank you, madam chairman. i hope you can comment on the issue of palestinian unilateralism which i believe my other colleagues have mentioned prior to this as well. >> we are not used to that. it is light reform at the un. what we do? the vice chair of the subcommittee on terrorism, not revelation, and trade. >> thank you, madam chairman. i just want to execute the comments of my colleagues and the concerns they have talked about. specifically, i look forward to discussing the funding of the united states of america to the un particularly for peacekeeping efforts where audits showed there had been fraud and abuse. beyond that, i look forward to discussion about the anti-israel bias that the u.n. attempts to exhibit. thank you for being here. >> ms. wilson of florida. >> thank you, chairwoman -- chairman for this important hearing this morning. i offer my belated condolences to the ambassador and h

u.s. justice department probe into possibly illegal revenue raising by bell police. a memo entitled bell police department baseball game encouraged officers to score by giving out parking tickets and charging up to $2,000 to retrieve impounded cars. >> there was a piece of paper that had impound, arrests, citations, parking citations. you were to have to tell the sergeant prior to your shift how much you were going to do. >> warner: the scandal fueled a recall election last month. on april 7, a new city council was sworn in. for more, we're joined now by the two lead "los angeles times" reporters who broke this story and helped win their paper the pulitzer prize for public service: jeff gottlieb, who has spent three decades in newspapers, and ruben vives, who's been a reporter for just three years. welcome to you both and congratulations. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> warner: jeff, you've done a lot of investigations in your career. what strikes you about the scope of this one? >> well, what is striking is in fact the scope, how broad it was, how

." >> susie: back in the u.s., the justice department wants to get its hands on records of american clients of hsbc in india. the feds suspect the clients are hiding accounts to evade taxes. court documents allege hsbc lured americans with the promise of secrecy. today's request comes amid a crackdown by the i.r.s. on offshore tax cheats. hsbc says it does not condone tax evasion. meantime, convicted ponzi schemer bernie madoff says a few big banks, including hsbc, will likely end up paying big money to his victims. in a jailhouse interview with "the financial times," madoff alleges j.p. morgan chase, the primary banker for his firm, had enough information about his account to be suspicious. the trustee liquidating madoff's firm sued the bank last year for $6 billion. he also sued hsbc for $9 billion. madoff predicts that bank will have "big problems." hsbc says it didn't know anything about madoff's fraud. >> susie: tom, it is a few points higher, a few steps back and today with the step back, it shows that there is a lack of conviction by investors. >> tom: a lack of conviction, while we'

u.s. department of justice from their program designed to upgrade the technology of law enforcement agencies nationwide. san francisco is going to use the money to upgrade some of our public safety radios to a new standard that would allow us to talk to police and fire and other public safety agencies in other jurisdictions besides san francisco. both during a disaster and day to day when we need to offer each other mutual aid, we will be able to talk to each other, which is not a capability we have now. this is a much larger project. we are funding it until we get the money, and we were able to get $750,000 from doj. we are going to work order about $95,000 to department of technology for installation and programming. the grant creates no new positions, and there are no matching funds required. i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. supervisor mirkarimi: any comments or questions? seeing none, i think we are fine. any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. can we take this without objection? so moved. thank you very much. anything else to add? ok, thank

u.s. department of justice are supposed to mediate some sort of compromise.up out here says that those representatives could be here sometime this week, possibly as early as tomorrow. live in vallejo, alley rasmus. >>> people are reeling from damage caused by skee veer storms. we just received this new video of an entire block of homes that were torn apart in raleigh, north carolina. trees were snapped off, and on the ground. the violent weather has killed at least 37 people in several states since those first tornadoes touched down in oklahoma last wednesday. we will have a live report from north carolina coming up in just about 10 minutes. >>> san jose police are investigating a tragic fatal accident involving a bicyclist who was hit by a friend. police say he was riding down cherry avenue early yesterday morning. he was coming from a party. and police say he was hit by a friend who had also just driven away from that same event. both are 32 years old. the bicyclist was pronounced dead at the scene. police say they're looking into a cause, and whether alcoh

u.s. department of justice and state senator noreen evans stepped in to encourage all sides to reach a compromise. >>> oakland is experiencing a crime decline in some neighborhoods. statistics released today for areas between east and west oakland show even seven fewer shootings, nine fewer rapes and 118 fewer robberies for the first quarter of this year compared to last. however, the same period did see two more homicides. for one neighborhood in oakland the way to fight crime is cameras. anne makovec on how businesses are protecting themselves with pictures. >> we have to protect ourselves. >> reporter: over the past year more chinatown businesses have been using cameras to ward off crime. >> i have the camera on the sidewalk and i have the camera inside the store. >> reporter: he spent almost $1000. >> it is okay, it is good to have, yes. >> it is worth it? >> it is, yes. >> reporter: among all the store owners i spoke with in this neighborhood there was a sense of needing to take matters into their own hands because with limited budgets there is only so much they could count on the police to

u.s. justice. i would like to know what our administration's efforts are in the un to make the u.s. embargo more of a multilateral support effort. >> thank you, mr. rivera. mr. sicily. >> thank you, madam chairman. i hope you can comment on the ise of palestinian unilateralism which i believe my other colleagues have mentioned prior to this as well. >> we are not used to that. it is light reform at the un. what we do? the vice chair of the subcommittee on terrorism, not revelation, and trade. >> thank you, mam chairman. i just want to execute the comments of my colleagues and the concerns they have talked about. specifically, look forward to discussing t funding of the united states of america to the un particularly for peacekeeping efforts where audits showed there had been fraud and abuse. beyond that, i look forward to discussion abouthe anti-israel bias that the u.n. attempts to exhibit. thank you for being here. >> ms. wilson of florida. >> thank you, chairwoman -- chairman for this important hearing this morning. i offer my belated condolences to the ambassador and her family.

u.s. department of justice and state senator noreen avins stepped in to reach an acceptable resolution. >>> it is a mystery. dead or dying leopard sharks are washing up on the peninsula. a dozen have been spotted recently on the lagoons. don has a theory that shark experts have about what may be causing the deaths. >> reporter: residents of this redwood community are used to seeing fairly large populations of birds and other wildlife along the slews of the south bay. when ailing sharks began to show up a few days ago, they were concerned. over the past few days, volunteers picked up a dozen dead and dying sharks. another sign of trouble, a bat ray swimming lazily near a dying shark. behavior not normal one observer says. >> he almost came out of the water a few times right up on the shore. >> but rescue isn't easy. when volunteers carry the ray to open water, it swam right back. >> the bat rays nor the sharks are starving. >> they can typically survive a lot of pollutants in the water and a lot of adverse living conditions. so to see one die indicates that something has happened to the eco

u.s. department of justice has filled time and time again to act. prosecuted finnerty in recent years but when they have actually gone and gone up against prosecuting of sanity and we have seen that b.s. legal measures are protected by the us supreme court because we do find that the majority of the content that is available today involves things like women in gauging in sexual acts while ingesting vomits while rolling around in p. we see a lot of hard core group sex based reality it's cetera which doesn't necessarily fall under our protected free speech and there are legal protections and measure we just hope that apartment just actually pursue enforcement of those laws ok so obviously there is a gray area as to what you consider free speech what you consider seen or not but then tell me you know according to senator hatch we very clearly now know the effects that this type of pornography has on communities has on children on sex trafficking on women what evidence is there for that well we have seen you know of course that there is an increase the

u.s. justice, including cop killers, drove traffickers, for regime that has murdered americans in international airspace as occurred in 1996. what what efforts do you make personally to try to garner support for u.s. policy towards cuba? >> first of all, we firmly and unequivocally at every opportunity condemned for the very reason that you described cuba's human rights record and its longstanding record of abuses as well as its support for terrorism. secondly, a year before a resolution comes before the general assembly, we work hard to garner as many votes in conjunction with our position of voting against the resolution as we can muster. we have a small core of countries, including israel, that regularly and loyally stands with us. we are making efforts to expand that. but as you well know, as we strongly make our case for our policy, which is a bilateral policy, we are in a minority -- a small minority. the embargo has limited international support. even our closest allies, like canada and european partners, do not share our views. this is an issue that has been and will remain an annual yo

u.s. department of justice has spent $6 million in their prosecution of the giants slugger. do you think they should retry him? >> they have already gone this far so yeah. i don't see why not. keep going. it's a serious offense. >> reporter: you know, there are a lot of people out there saying it's not as serious as other crimes and it's already cost $6 million in that neighborhood. how do you justify that or what would you say to those people? >> lying in the courtroom is serious to me. i sago for it. >> reporter: are you a die hards giants fan? >> oakland. >> reporter: you're an as fan. are you a bonds fan? >> no. hate barry. i think i'm less bias because i'm not a giants fan. >> reporter: an obstruction of justice carries a maximum sentence of ten years in prison. no one thinks barry bonds will see the light of day inside a jail cell. instead, the worst they think could happen would be some form of house arrest. it should come as no surprise yesterday's conviction is the talk of talk radio this morning. sports talk radio. coming up at 6:00, we'll hear what they are saying

justice. >>> back in the u.s. tonight, the government shutdown over the federal budget may have been averted at the last moment, but not long after that, washington started arguing over the next thing, the federal debt ceiling, which is once again approaching fast. nbc news white house correspondent savannah guthrie is with us tonight from the white house. savannah, the shouting had just stopped about one issue which i assume will be cleared up before the next one started. >> and this fight, brian, promises to be even tougher. the stakes are even higher, as you mentioned. in a few weeks, the u.s. will reach its debt limit. that's the maximum amount the u.s. can borrow. congress will have to raise the debt ceiling. if it doesn't, the u.s. would default on its obligations. the economy would spiral downward. some say we would hit a recession again. this year, republicans are saying they're not going to vote to raise the debt ceiling unless there are major cuts with it. but they're saying it's wrong to use those cuts

u.s. military at guantanamo. here's justicecorrespondent bob orr. >> reporter: in a stunning policy reversal, attorney general eric holder today conceded that confessed 9/11 mastermind khalid sheikh mohammed will be tried in a military tribunal. >> i believe that they can deliver fair trials and just verdicts. >> reporter: just 17 months ago, holder pledged to prosecute k.s.m. and four al qaeda co- defendants in a civilian court just blocks from new york's ground zero. but congress, bowing to public pressure, barred transfers of guantanamo bay prisoners to the u.s. holder did not hide his frustration. >> i know this case in a way that members of congress do not. i have looked at the files. i've spoken to the prosecutors. so do i know better than them in yes. >> reporter: the festering flap over where to try mohammed has angered families of 9/11 victims. geraldine davie has been seeking justice for her daughter for nearly a decade. >> i owe this to amy. i need justice for my 23-year- old who was slaughtered that day and we... we

u.s. department of justice are supposed to be out here possibly as early as today. but now we're hearing these meetings could take place later this week to negotiate some sort of compromise between the city of vallejo and the native american groups protesting out here. in the meantime the people here say they will continue to stay camped out here. this is now day five that they've been camped out here at glen cove. you can see they have a campfire going. and here at the entrance of the trail if we back up a little bit you can see they have their signs and banners out here. now let's show you the land at the center of this dispute. we have some video that is very beautiful land about 15 acres right along the water at glen cove. the protesters say that land is actually a native american burial ground going back 3500 years. the city of vallejo wants to expand the park adding a parking lot, picnic tables and restrooms. that construction is what the native american groups oppose. >> this is our church. i mean it's a church without walls, but it is our church nonetheless.

u.s. justice system. >> it is, in fact, the best one in the world. and i am not happy about the fact that we will not have that opportunity. >> reporter: you know, some people are saying if the attorney general had looked at this a little further, talked to the people of new york, he could have come to this decision two years ago. >> i made my decision based on the facts, based on the law and based on where i thought these cases could be best tried. i only come to this decision reluctantly after congress has passed statutes that ultimately tie my hands. >> reporter: holder's critics support holding trials at gitmo but civil liberties groups do not. >> i am disappointed. i had hoped that eric holder would stick by his initial plan. >> reporter: now the case gets turned over to military prosecutors who say they could have pretrial hearings going by this fall in guantanamo, around the time of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. matt? >> pete williams, thank you very much. >> now a check of the rest of the top stories from ann curry at the news des

u.s. military base in guantanamo bay, cuba. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams has our report. >> reporter: a year and a half after announcing that the men accused of the 9/11 attacks would be put on trial in new york, attorney general eric holder said today they will now be tried where they have been held since 2006 -- at guantanamo. >> we simply cannot allow a trial to be delayed any longer for the victims of the 9/11 attacks or for their family members who have waited for nearly a decade for justice. >> reporter: that means no civilian courtroom for khalid sheikh mohammed, said to have been the mastermind, and four others accused of helping him. it's a complete turnaround for the obama administration, after the president vowed on his first day in office to shut gitmo down within a year. new york's mayor and police chief fought against bringing the terror trials there and congress rebelled, blocking detainee moves to the u.s. in an interview with nbc the attorney general said he had no choice because congress put federal courts off

u.s. marshal's service operating out of the justice department. we have constant studies and recommendations from those agencies. that is one reason why courthouse construction is soak it -- so expensive. a trial court room has to have four entrances, one for the judge, one for the jury, one for the defendant in custody, one for the public. that sounds simple enough, but if you have multiple court rooms, then it gets extremely complicated. so security drives not just personnel but construction costs. >> i would add one thing. i have been on the court for more than 16 years, and during that time, our court police -- we are in charge of our court police. there have never been a moment in that time that i have experienced anyone feeling nervous or that i have experienced any lack of efficiency, and the public reacts to them well. i would say for my own personal experience that the management of the court police by the supreme court and the people that have chosen to do that have done very well. >> recently there have been several proposals to apply j

u.s. attorney had a press conference scheduled and cancelled with no explanation and saying that the jury convicted the defendant of obstructing justice which fines him. he was intentionally evasive and filed statement for the grand jury. the u.s. attorney will advise when they decide whether or not to retry on the deadlock. the judge has not sentenced either of the other two convicted valco defendants to anything more than home detention. unclear when sentencing will happen. reporting live from san franciscoabc 7 news. >> jurors are spoken and many are talking about how they came about their decision. leann has that story. members of the jury worked hard and a laborious process . they were tense and emotional moments. now on count 5 obstruction of justice as you heard from healther guilty . when bopped's testified before the grand jury, this jury found that he was not direct, he was being very evasive and that's why they found him guilty. they were asked about his former girl friend. they said she could not be trusted and there was a lot of inconsistency with her testimony . teave hods who had recordings. the jury said there was inco

is a police guide that has research-funded police practices in the u.s., u.k., canada, the netherlands, and other countries. the justice department recommends ventilation, air conditioning, drinking water, and education about the risks of drug use and over extension to ensure a safe event for you. we are nonprofit. we have been looking for been used to hold fund-raising youth dances in san francisco for youth under 18. we have not meant able to find them so far. please help us. we believe that cooperation and education are key. we are looking forward to working with venues, promoters, and the city to establish education and safety at all types of mass events. thank you. >> you said you have tried to find venues and have failed to find any. what efforts have you made and what doors have been closed? >> the key criteria for finding the news has been to find outside venues since we do not want to charge teams outrageous amounts over $10 on weekends. we want venues that would be safe. that means there would be in close proximity to major streets and public press protection -- public transportation, where we feel kids could

u.s. prostitution laws do not examine minors from prosecution the office of juvenile justice and delinquency prevention reported one thousand and six hundred juveniles were arrested for prostitution within just one year lawyer saying the u.s. the paradox of the system is that the children are prosecuted for crimes for which they cannot legally give consent we say that this child is a victim and yet we send such a jail somewhere along the line there's something wrong with that and we need to be taken a look at ourselves and a look at the fact that we have we have made detention and we have made law enforcement in the criminal justice system in the juvenile justice system a default setting for what happens to these kids we want to make sure that these children are treated as victims but treating the victims and providing for their recovery requires funding or from there is in federal money for us victims of trafficking tina front works with a nonprofit group in washington which helps the children to get their lives back providing housing and medical treatment she herself was trafficked at the

u.s. district attorney explained how barry bonds has distorted justice. bonds explained he had a secret he didn't want anyone to know about. the prosecution stated bonds came before a grand jury investigating laboratories trying to protect that secret. it didn't matter. he was given immunity and a promise no charges would be brought against him. he still lied. from there the prosecution detailed their direct evidence. one example of that a friend of bonds' kathy hoskins who under oath said she saw bonds' long time trainer inject bonds. trainer said it was something for the road. something you can't catch or detect. the prosecution left the jury with this. would bonds who relies on his body for his livelihood allow greg anderson unknowingly dose him without knowing what he injected bonds' body with? before closing arguments u.s. district judge instructed the jury of eight women and four men on deliberation rules. if the jury receives the case today, they can choose to deliberate tomorrow. the defense indicated yesterday their closing arguments would take t