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Connecticut’s top prosecutor decided to retire as a state oversight commission considered whether to hold termination hearings on Wednesday. This follows an...

Gov. Ned Lamont said Thursday he would fire Connecticut’s top prosecutor — if he had the authority — for “ethical malfeasance,” a day after an...

An independent investigation released Wednesday questioned the “integrity” of Connecticut’s top prosecutor hiring a state budget official’s daughter in...

Breach of neutrality Moon hit for trying to control prosecution President Moon Jae-in appointed former Vice Justice Minister Kim Oh-soo as prosecutor general Monday, despite strong objections from the main opposition People Power Party (PPP). It is disappointing that Moon pressed ahead with the appointment without a bipartisan endorsement of Kim. Regrettably, he has become the 33rd ministerial-level official to take office without the consent of the opposition bloc under the Moon administrati...

Qualification questioned Prosecutions neutrality should not be breached President Moon Jae-in cannot deflect criticism for tapping a pro-government figure as the new prosecutor general. On Monday, he nominated former Vice Justice Minister Kim Oh-soo to the top post at the prosecution. Moon appeared to put loyalty over qualification and competence in choosing Kim over three other candidates shortlisted by a recommendation committee. Addressing the nomination, the presidential office said Kim h...

Once Dismissed as a Fringe, Counterculture Vice, Psychedelics Are Rapidly Approaching Acceptance in Mainstream Medicine These drugs uniquely change the brain, and a person’s awareness of experiences, in the span of just a few hours. This fast-acting shift could be useful in mental-health treatments, and research is already supporting this notion. Just one dose of Psilocybin, the active ingredient in Magic Mushrooms, was recently shown to ease depression and anxiety in cancer patients—an o...

| Credit: Andrew Burton/Getty In her book, Selvaratnam, 49, recounts how other women reached out to her about Schneiderman after the New Yorker piece — including a woman who said she met him after the scandal broke. Schneiderman allegedly mistreated her, too. In Assume Nothing, Selvaratnam writes that this woman had sent her an email explaining that she felt "sympathy" for the former a...

Policy. carried out in front of the whole world. and fully, fully embraced by the international community of democracy. we werent pressuring ukraine to get rid of a top prosecutor, we were pursuing ukraine to replace a weak prosecutor who wouldnt do his job with someone at the time we hoped would finally crack down on corruption in ukraine. thats what it was about. trump on the other hand was secretly putting at risk our national security by pursuing a personal political vendetta against me, bec...

There is no evidence of wrongdoing and ukraines former top prosecutor has agreed, but president trump brought it up with ukrainian president prompting the whistleblower complaint in the first place and that is what has sparked the impeachment investigation, garrett tenney with more and what we know about this. >> this controversy surrounding hunter bidens work for one of the biggest gas companies in ukraine isnt new. in early 2014 vice president joe biden became the obama administrations point m...

Theres a top prosecutor whose allegations were central to giulianis efforts. he inadvertently set a trap for president trump. matthew chance. what a mind-spinning 24 hours -- 48 hours, its been, matthew. >> it is. weve been wading through the documents. not just the transcript but also this incredible whistleblower report, which has been rich in giving us some indication of how this all works. out of all of it, its this figure thats emerged as central. he was the prosecutor general of this count...