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Jerry Seper

Jerry Seper was a writer for The Washington Times.

Articles by Jerry Seper

**FILE** Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. speaks July 26, 2012, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)

Justice Dept.: Exempted Indian tribes can use eagle feathers, parts

While federal wildlife laws criminalize the killing of eagles and other migratory birds for their feathers, the Justice Department on Friday exempted members of federally-recognized Indian tribes from the law, saying the use of eagle feathers was both "religious and cultural." Published October 12, 2012

Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, is becoming an increasing problem in Northern Virginia. (Associated Press/File)

U.S. targets violent street gang MS-13

The violent street gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, was designated Thursday by the Treasury Department as a transnational criminal organization, meaning the government can freeze its U.S. assets, seize its property or interests in this country, and make it illegal for anyone in the U.S. to do business with the gang. Published October 11, 2012

Salvador Alfonso Martinez, also known as "La Ardilla," or "Squirrel" in English, holds up his right finger while presented to the press under the custody of Navy marines at the Organized Crime Special Investigations Unit headquarters in Mexico City on Oct. 8, 2012. According to federal authorities, Martinez is one of the most wanted criminals in Mexico, and is allegedly a top regional leader of the Zetas drug cartel. (Associated Press)

Mexican officials arrest head of drug cartel in U.S. citizen’s death

Mexican military officials have arrested a regional leader of the brutal drug cartel Los Zetas in the 2010 killing of a U.S. citizen who was fatally shot after being ambushed by six Mexican pirates in two boats on Falcon Lake near Zapata, Texas. Published October 8, 2012

**FILE** Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano

Feds team up with Amtrak to fight human trafficking

A federal partnership was unveiled Thursday involving the Departments of Homeland Security and Transportation, along with Amtrak, that will seek to combat human trafficking by training more than 8,000 front-line transportation employees and Amtrak police officers to identify trafficking victims and perpetrators and report suspected cases. Published October 4, 2012

** FILE ** Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks about the law enforcement actions of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force as Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. listens at the Justice Department on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012. (Associated Press)

91 charged in Medicare fraud scheme

A federal Medicare Fraud Strike Force has brought charges against 91 people in seven cities — including doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals — in suspected Medicare fraud schemes that bilked the government of more than $429 million in false billings. Published October 4, 2012

"We have known for some time that weapons brought to Mexico from Operation Fast and Furious would contribute to significant death and carnage,” Rep. Darrell E. Issa said Wednesday. “Univision’s new findings add details and faces to what occurred as a result of a reckless initiative, mismanagement and lack of leadership within the U.S. Justice Department.” (Associated Press)

Gunrunning’s collateral damage: Mexican teens

Fourteen teenagers slaughtered at a birthday party in Mexico with weapons purchased during the now-discredited Fast and Furious gunrunning investigation are the faces of a "reckless" operation that allowed hundreds of illegally purchased guns to be transported south of the border. Published October 3, 2012

Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, wants the Justice Department to release information on gunrunning operations in Texas and the source of guns in the 2011 killing of a U.S. agent. (Associated Press)

Holder pressed on source of guns from 2011 killing

A senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee called on Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Tuesday to immediately make public any information the Justice Department has on the existence of federal gunrunning operations in Texas and to reveal the source of weapons found at the February 2011 murder scene of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agent Jaime Zapata. Published October 2, 2012

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Swiss company Tyco to pay $26M in U.S. corruption probe

Tyco International Ltd., along with a subsidiary that pleaded guilty Monday to criminal charges of conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, has agreed to pay more than $26 million to resolve allegations brought by the Justice Department and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Published September 24, 2012

**FILE** Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. speaks July 26, 2012, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)

Management failures cited in ‘Fast and Furious’ report

The Justice Department's Office of Inspector General on Wednesday blamed the failure of Operation Fast and Furious on a series of "misguided strategies," but found no evidence that Attorney General Eric. H. Holder Jr. knew of the misguided gunrunning investigation before its public unraveling in January 2011. Published September 19, 2012

Seized weapons are displayed at a news conference in Phoenix in January. Weapons like these, which were walked into Mexico, are at the heart of the Fast and Furious investigation under way on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)

Justice Dept. blamed in ‘Fast and Furious’ gun-trafficking operation

Nearly two years after weapons purchased during the botched "Fast and Furious" gunrunning investigation were found at the scene of the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent, a Justice Department report on Wednesday outlined a "pattern of serious failures" in the handling of the operation by both the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and U.S. attorney's office in Arizona. Published September 19, 2012

Department of Justice headquarters in Washington (Associated Press)

Justice Dept. fails to meet 60-day requirement for employee background checks

The Justice Department has failed to meet the required 60-day guideline for processing background checks for new employees who require national security clearances and, as a result, some key positions within the department — including agents, intelligence analysts and linguists — go unfilled for extended periods, a new report said Thursday. Published September 13, 2012

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.

At Qatar forum, Holder confirms FBI probe of Libya envoy killings

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. told members of the Arab Forum in Doha, Qatar, on Thursday the United States was shocked and saddened by the "senseless and brutal" attacks Tuesday in Libya and Egypt, condemning "in the strongest possible terms the deplorable and savage acts of violence" that claimed the lives of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. Published September 13, 2012

**FILE** Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah is seen in Beirut on June 2007. (Associated Press/Hezbollah Media Office)

Hezbollah tied to seized cash

Federal authorities Monday seized $150 million in connection with a civil money laundering and forfeiture complaint charging that a massive, international scheme in which entities linked to Hezbollah, including the now-defunct Lebanese Canadian Bank, used the U.S. financial system to launder narcotics trafficking and other criminal proceeds through West Africa and back into Lebanon. Published August 20, 2012

**FILE** Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. speaks July 26, 2012, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)

GOP sues to force Obama, Holder compliance on Fast and Furious

A civil lawsuit filed Monday by House Republicans asks a federal court to enforce a congressional subpoena of Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in his refusal to turn over documents sought in an investigation by a House committee into the failed Fast and Furious gunrunning operation. Published August 13, 2012

ATF whistleblower’s revenge case settled

A Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agent who blew the whistle on the botched Fast and Furious gunrunning investigation and, according to lawmakers, was threatened with losing his job has successfully resolved a retaliation claim. Published August 7, 2012

**FILE** Rep. Frank R. Wolf

Justice Department IG criticizes division’s practice of nepotism

Eight current and former officials in the Justice Management Division of the Justice Department, who advise senior management executives on basic policy for finances, personnel and training, violated federal guidelines and regulations in seeking to hire their own relatives to positions within their offices, a report released Thursday says. Published July 26, 2012

A Fisker plug-in hybrid car is exhibited at the Frankfurt Auto Show in Germany in 2009. (Associated Press, file)

GOP senators feeling bad Karma

Two senior Republican senators have questions about the Obama administration's approval of more than a half-billion dollars in taxpayer funds to help a California automaker build hybrid subcompact cars in Finland that will cost buyers more than $100,000 each. Published July 24, 2012