On May 10th, Attorney General Sessions sent a follow-up memo to his March 8th opening memo to all federal prosecutors laying out the DOJ’s charging and sentencing policies.[i] In this memo, Sessions specifically outlined two directives for federal prosecutors.
Federal Crimes
Federal investigations into alleged fraudulent claims and kickback arrangementsin the health care industry have become a growing nationwide trend over the past several years.
A report authored by Syracuse University research group Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse has concluded that the federal government is currently cracking down significantly on tax crimes.
Late last year, President Obama chose to commute the sentences of eight individuals who had served a minimum of 15 years imprisonment for federal offenses involving crack cocaine. T
Whether an individual is arrested on charges of organizing an international drug trafficking operation or is arrested on charges of low-level white crime, that individual has constitutional rights that must be respected by law enforcement unless the law specifically indicates otherwise.
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