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1 week ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Justin Wise |Roy Strom |Emily Siegel |Zainab Mudallal
A couple of weeks ago, my colleague Justin Wise told me about a mysterious advertisement he heard on a soccer podcast that targeted the litigation finance industry. I asked him to send me a recording. What I heard led me down a rabbit hole into trying to figure out how a political advertisement without any disclaimer ended up on air.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Suzanne Monyak |Justin Wise
Approximately 4,500 Justice Department employees have accepted the Trump administration’s offer to participate in its deferred resignation program, according to new budget documents.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Suzanne Monyak |Justin Wise
Department says 4,500 positions vacant due to deferred resignationsDepartures part of federal cost-cutting effortMore than 4,000 Justice Department employees have accepted the Trump administration’s offer to participate in its deferred resignation program, according to new budget documents.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Suzanne Monyak |Justin Wise
Approximately 4,500 Justice Department employees have accepted the Trump administration’s offer to participate in its deferred resignation program, according to new budget documents.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Emily Siegel |Justin Wise
Groups pose tort reform as pocketbook issue for consumersAd urges support for bill to impose 41% tax on litigation fundersDuring the June 1 episode of The Totally Football Show with James Richardson, a podcast produced by The New York Times’ The Athletic, listeners in the Washington, DC-area heard a mysterious ad.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Emily Siegel |Justin Wise
During the June 1 episode of The Totally Football Show with James Richardson, a podcast produced by The New York Times’ The Athletic, listeners in the Washington, DC-area heard a mysterious ad.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Justin Wise |Jacklyn Wille |Seth Stern |Carmen Castro-Pagan
The Democratic mayor of Newark sued the acting US Attorney in New Jersey over his arrest outside a private detention facility linked to the administration’s mass deportation efforts. Ras Baraka in a Tuesday lawsuit accused Alina Habba of false arrest and malicious prosecution in connection with the May 9 incident, in which Baraka was arrested on a trespassing charge at the Delaney Hall private detention facility in Newark.
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4 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Justin Wise |Suzanne Monyak
The Trump administration is proposing to combine the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives with the Drug Enforcement Administration in what would be a dramatic overhaul in federal law enforcement. ATF, which has thousands of employees nationwide, would be “incorporated into DEA, addressing both drug and gun crimes,” according to a proposed fiscal 2026 budget document released Friday by the White House. The transition would be initiated in fiscal year 2026, the department said.
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4 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Justin Wise |Suzanne Monyak
The Trump administration is proposing to combine the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives with the Drug Enforcement Administration in what would be a dramatic overhaul in federal law enforcement, while proposing broad funding cuts across the Justice Department. ATF, which has thousands of employees nationwide, would be “incorporated into DEA, addressing both drug and gun crimes,” according to a proposed fiscal 2026 budget document released Friday by the White House.
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1 month ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Justin Wise |Suzanne Monyak |Seth Stern
The Trump administration is ratcheting up its threats of prosecution against Democrats and other critics, in an escalation of its use of the legal system to go after the president’s perceived enemies. The officials targeted include repeated Donald Trump antagonists such as ex-New York Gov.
