Attorney General Jennings Announces Independent Review of Hair Evidence in Some Pre-2000 Convictions
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Monday, March 4, 2019
WILMINGTON – Citing the FBI’s acknowledgement of a decades-long pattern of flawed testimony from one of its forensic units, Attorney General Kathy Jennings announced Monday that the Delaware Department of Justice (DOJ) has initiated an independent review of criminal convictions involving potentially questionable hair evidence. The FBI regularly used microscopic hair comparison analysis as a […]
Guilty Pleas for Bank Robber and Drug Dealer
Criminal Division | Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Friday, March 1, 2019
A 49-year-old Townsend man has pled guilty to robbing a Middletown bank. Deputy Attorney General Rebecca Song secured the plea from Nathaniel Lester with the assistance of social worker Crystal Pitts. Detective Julia Fabbroni of the Middletown Police Department was the Chief Investigating Officer. In November 2018, Lester walked into the Fulton Bank branch in […]
Wells Fargo Consumer Redress Review Program Mandated By National Settlement With AGs Starts
Consumer Protection | Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Program allows consumers, who have not been made whole through other remediation programs, to have inquiry reviewed by escalation team Wells Fargo has begun a consumer redress review program through which consumers who have not yet been made whole through other remediation programs already in place can seek to have their inquiry or complaint reviewed […]
Prison Sentence for Hockessin Killing
Criminal Division | Department of Justice | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Friday, February 22, 2019
Prosecutors also secure guilty pleas to drug, weapons, and rape charges The New York man who shot and killed a Hockessin man was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Deputy Attorneys General Brian Robertson, Cari Chapman, Matthew Keating, and Abby Adams prosecuted the case against Benjamin Rauf, 29, of Westerlo, NY. In August 2015, Shazim […]
Attorney General Jennings Joins Lawsuit Challenging President Trump’s Declaration of National Emergency
Department of Justice | Department of Justice Office of Impact Litigation | Department of Justice Press Releases | Newsroom | Date Posted: Monday, February 18, 2019
WILMINGTON – Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings has joined 15 other attorneys general in a lawsuit to block President Trump’s unilateral spending of federal defense funds for construction of a border wall under the guise of an “emergency.” The complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief was filed Monday in U.S. District Court for Northern California. […]
