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Government

Nov. 21, 2009

New DOJ Powers on Horizon

The Justice Department's new powers to obtain information from government fraud suspects and share it with other agencies and private litigants are expected to kick in soon.

By Robert Iafolla

Daily Journal Staff Writer

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department's new powers to obtain information from government fraud suspects and share it with other agencies and private litigants will kick in "very, very soon," the department's top official in the civil division said Thursday.

Associate Attorney General Tony West, a former partner at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco, said the exp...

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