
Michael Kosnar
Justice Department Producer at NBC News
Justice Department Producer NBC News
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3 weeks ago |
nbcnews.com | Michael Kosnar
A former federal inmate who was pardoned by President Donald Trump in his first term for drug trafficking crimes more than two decades ago has been tapped as deputy director of the federal Bureau of Prisons, according to bureau spokesperson Kristie Breshears. Joshua J. Smith, a Tennessee businessman who founded an inmate advocacy and rehabilitation nonprofit foundation, the Fourth Purpose, will be second in command in the bureau.
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3 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Erik Ortiz |Michael Kosnar
5 hours agoJ.D. Vance Speaks Out After He’s Dragged Into Explosive Row Between Trump and MuskVice President J.D. Vance has broken his silence amid the escalating online war of words between President Donald Trump and his former ally and key campaign donor, Elon Musk.
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4 weeks ago |
nbcnews.com | Michael Kosnar |Ken Dilanian |David Rohde
May 29, 2025, 9:46 PM EDTThe FBI’s top two leaders said in interviews on Fox News that the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide and promised to release a surveillance video from the federal jail in New York City where Epstein was found dead. Officials in the first Trump administration ruled that Epstein’s death in 2019 was a suicide.
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1 month ago |
nbcnews.com | Erik Ortiz |Michael Kosnar |Andrew Blankstein
In its heyday, Alcatraz Island housed more than 260 prisoners, with notorious gangsters such as Al Capone, George "Machine Gun" Kelly and James "Whitey" Bulger serving time on the rocky outpost. With Alcatraz's closing in 1963 after it fell into disrepair, the federal prison off San Francisco found a new life as a popular tourist destination — one that continues to draw more than a million visitors a year as a national historic landmark.
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2 months ago |
nbcnews.com | Dareh Gregorian |Suzanne Gamboa |Ryan J. Reilly |Michael Kosnar
Hannah Dugan, the Milwaukee County judge arrested Friday by the FBI for allegedly obstructing federal authorities who were seeking to detain an undocumented immigrant, was a longtime social justice advocate before she took the bench.
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