Obstruction Of Justice | featured news

Barry Bonds was sentenced to two years of probation and 30 days of house arrest for obstruction of justice in a probe that looked at athletes' illegal steroid use.

A federal judge in San Francisco on Friday denied Barry Bonds’s request to drop his obstruction of justice conviction, upholding that jury verdict and also rejecting Bonds’s request for a new trial on that charge.

Kwame M. Kilpatrick, who resigned as mayor of Detroit and pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in 2008, was sentenced on Tuesday to as many as five years in prison for violating his probation. The sentence was harsher than expected, and elicited loud gasps in the courtroom.

A former senior executive at the National Security Agency was charged Thursday with lying and obstruction of justice in an investigation ...