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President Trump’s legal team has been shaken up — with the resignation of spokesman Mark Corallo and the possible ouster of personal attorney Marc Kasowitz, according to multiple reports. Corallo resigned Thursday night, CBS News reported. The longtime GOP operative had been handling the White House’s defense in the wide-ranging Russia investigation, according to Politico. He had worked for the House committee that probed President Bill Clinton in the 1990s before leaving for the Justice Department under then-Attorney General John Ashcroft. Kasowitz — who represented Trump since the early 2000s and led the defense in the Trump University fraud case...

The bosses of New York's five Mafia families in the mid-1980s came a hair-trigger away from sanctioning a hit on then-federal prosecutor Rudy Giuliani, according to bombshell FBI records made public today. Before cooler heads prevailed - the mob bosses decided by a razor-thin 3-to-2 margin not to try to whack the future mayor and presidential candidate - at least two of the dons argued fervently that the mob-busting U.S. attorney should sleep with the fishes. Bonanno boss Philip “Rusty" Rastelli, Genovese chief Vincent “The Chin" Gigante and Lucchese honcho Anthony “Tony Ducks" Corallo all cast votes to spare the...

As many as 100 FBI agents, federal prosecutors and other department employees are likely to be asked—possibly as early as the next few weeks—to sign broadly worded statements waiving any confidentiality agreements they had with journalists about the anthrax case, Justice officials tell NEWSWEEK. The waiver statement was recently ordered by a federal judge at the urging of lawyers for bioterrorism expert Dr. Steven J. Hatfill, who has filed a lawsuit alleging that government officials leaked damaging personal information about him in an effort to connect him with the anthrax attacks.