Mary Jo White

It was the law enforcement agency behind some of the most sensational headlines to hit New York City over the last several years. It successfully investigated Bernard Kerik, the former NYPD commissioner and Homeland Security chief nominee. It exposed...

Gov. Ed Rendell nominated a veteran environmental lobbyist to serve as Pennsylvania's top environmental official. Rendell on Tuesday announced his choice of John Hanger to head the state Department of Environmental Protection. And the governor...

Embattled state Comptroller Alan Hevesi, now the subject of an intensifying criminal investigation, lost the support of one of his chief political patrons yesterday when Democratic gubernatorial front-runner Eliot Spitzer withdrew his endorsement....

WASHINGTON - The White House aides and journalists at the center of Patrick J. Fitzgerald's probe into how a spy's cover was blown have little in common with the terrorists and mobsters he has pursued for most of his career. But for Fitzgerald, a...

A Montreal shopkeeper today was convicted of conspiracy in a plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport shortly before New Year's Day 2000. Mokhtar Haouari, 32, betrayed no emotion as the jury at U.S. District Court in Manhattan declared him guilty...

A Virginia security guard whose name and telephone number were found inside the car of a suspected hijacker emerged Wednesday as a possible link to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon. A federal magistrate ordered Mohamed Abdi,...

U.S. officials believe that Mohammed Atef, a top lieutenant of Osama bin Laden, was involved in planning the Sept. 11 hijackings that killed about 5,700 people, sources confirmed Sunday. This provides the most direct, high-level link between bin Laden...

Following poignant pleas from victims to show no mercy, a federal judge Thursday sentenced four associates of Osama bin Laden to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 1998 bombings of U.S. Embassies in East Africa. U.S. District...

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White, the nation's most experienced terrorism prosecutor, announced yesterday that she has decided to resign by the first of the year. "My expectation had been that I would step down as United States attorney in early...

Federal officials have asked the Police Department to help question immigrants being probed in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. The Bush administration has announced that it intends as part of its terrorist investigation to...

President Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich is a saga of secrecy, tenacity, sleight of hand and pressure from Rich's ex-wife and one of her friends, who together have steered millions of dollars to Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton's causes and those of...

Attorney General John Ashcroft has established a special team within the Justice Department to handle the terrorism cases stemming from last month's attacks upon the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The move, confirmed yesterday by the Justice...