Federal Government to Focus on Drug Prosecutions Through DOJ and DEA Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Acting Administrator for the DEA, Robert Murphy, recently held a press conference highlighting the federal government’s work on drug enforcement in the new year,...
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DOJ Announces Preliminary Policy Outline for Restoring Gun Rights
Proposed Rule for Restoring Gun Rights Open for Comments from General Public As we have previously covered, earlier this year the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) had announced that it was transferring the mechanism that adjudicates applications for the restoration of...
Rise in Vigilante Justice Against Accused Child Abusers
Youtuber Confronts Airline Employee at O’Hare International Airport In recent years, a trend of individuals without any ties to law enforcement confronting others who they believe have engaged in or allegedly professed a desire to engage in sexual activity with minors...
Largest Health Care Fraud Takedown in US History Announced by DOJ
324 Charged in Various Schemes Involving $14.6 Billion in Fraud Claims Recently, the Department of Justice announced that under its 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, the federal government unveiled charges against 324 individuals, including almost 100 medical...
More Challenges to Illinois Gun Controls
Supreme Court Upholds Concealed Carry Regulation Recently, the Illinois Supreme Court upheld the law that governs the issuance of Concealed Carry Licenses (“CCL”) and Firearm Owners Identification Cards (“FOID”), saying that these regulations did not violate the...
Supreme Court Sets Limits on Factors for Supervised Release Violations
The United States Supreme Court just announced an opinion that clarifies what factors a district court judge can consider when weighing sentencing options in response to a violation of supervised release. When district court judges hand out a sentence on the federal...
Federal Law Enforcement to Focus on Chicago
Government Initiative Expands to Include Downtown Chicago and Transportation The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Andrew S. Boutros, recently announced that the federal government would be expanding the “Project Safe Neighborhoods”...
Controversial Uses of DNA in Investigations “John Doe DNA Warrant” Used to Tie Convict to Crime Decades Later
The use of a so-called “John Doe DNA warrant” has made the news recently after a convict escaped from an Arkansas prison last week. The inmate, former police chief Grant Hardin, plead guilty to a first-degree murder charge in 2017 when his DNA was entered into the...
California Reveals Mass False Opioid Positive Drug Tests in Prison Population Incarceration Status Potentially Impacted by False Positive Tests
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”) recently announced that they are undergoing a massive review of any inmates who may have recently been effected by an estimated 6,000 false positive tests for the presence of opioids. There were...
Authorities Continue to Crack Down on Smugglers Using “Narco Subs”
6 Tons Recovered from Narco Sub in Columbia Columbian authorities announced that they had successfully recovered over 3,000 kilograms of cocaine that was being smuggled via a “narco sub” off the Pacific coast, with an additional 270 kilograms recovered via drug...


