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Posted on October 22, 2014 at 11:31 PM
Updated today at 11:31 PM
WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Eric Holder is upset at recent leaks from the ongoing state investigation into the Ferguson, Mo., police shooting of Michael Brown.
Holder on Wednesday told Justice Department lawyers, who are conducting a separate federal inquiry of the shooting and a probe of the Ferguson police department, that he is "exasperated" at the "selective flow of information coming out of Missouri," a Justice official said.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch published accounts of testimony presented to a St. Louis County grand jury and the state's autopsy report showing Brown suffered a gunshot wound in a struggle inside the officer's squad car.
The information appears to bolster at least part of the account of Officer Darren Wilson, who has told investigators he fatally shot Brown because he feared for his life.
Holder called the leaks "inappropriate and troubling" because the federal investigation is still ongoing and the grand jury is still convening to hear evidence, the Justice official said. Holder said he is highly suspect of local authorities, the Justice official said, because the autopsy and grand jury testimony leaks are similar to the decision by local police to release surveillance video showing Brown stealing cigars from a convenience store just before the deadly police confrontation.
Holder, at the time, denounced the release of the video as intended to skew perception of the case.
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By Evan Perez and Eric Bradner, CNN
updated 10:31 AM EDT, Tue October 21, 2014
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Washington (CNN) -- Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday that he found it "frustrating" that the Justice Department hasn't been able to carry out criminal prosecutions of executives whose risky banking practices blamed for the global financial crisis.
As Holder wraps up nearly six years at the helm of the Justice Department, the attorney general has drawn criticism for his department's record on white collar crime.
Holder frustrated no person went on trial for financial crisis
Some critics say the department failed by not bringing charges as a deterrent against shoddy practices on Wall Street. Some fault him for instead extracting billion dollar settlements from the world's biggest banks.
Holder has defended the department's record saying the settlements are one way to prod shareholder to hold management more accountable.
Still, in an exclusive interview with CNN on Monday, Holder acknowledged that the lack of criminal prosecutions of executives "is something that is frustrating."
"The American people should understand we looked at those matters, tried to come up with ways in which we could hold people and institutions accountable," Holder told CNN. "We have prosecuted certain institutions. We have gotten record amounts of money in and we've used that money for appropriate remedial measures so that people can stay in their houses, have their mortgages reduced. So a lot of good has come from our efforts in that regard."
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