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In the United States, a special counsel (formerly called special prosecutor or independent counsel) is a lawyer appointed to investigate, and potentially prosecute, a particular case of suspected wrongdoing for which a conflict of interest exists for the usual prosecuting authority. Other jurisdictions have similar systems.
The United States Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government.It is a permanent, investigative, and prosecutorial agency whose basic legislative authority comes from four federal statutes: the Civil Service Reform Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act, the Hatch Act, and the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA).
The Office of Special Counsel was an office of the United States Department of Justice established by provisions in the Ethics in Government Act that expired in 1999. The provisions were replaced by Department of Justice regulation 28 CFR Part 600, [ 1 ] which created the successor office of special counsel .
(Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Thursday declined to block the U.S. Justice Department from releasing a special counsel's investigative report on President-elect Donald Trump’s attempts to ...
Jack Smith has been appointed special counsel to oversee two criminal probes surrounding Donald Trump that could see charges brought against the former president. Attorney General Merrick Garland ...
A potential government witness in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case against fDonald Trump has received online threats that are under federal investigation, special counsel Jack Smith said ...
The Immigrant and Employee Rights Section, Civil Rights Division (formerly the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC)), in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, is responsible for enforcing the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), which protects US citizens and certain other individual from ...
The special counsel is looking at whether Trump illegally kept classified materials at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., and if he and his staff obstructed repeated efforts to retrieve them.