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Newly released DOJ records show Jack Smith’s office bypassed its own stricter purchasing standards to rush a forensic video software order in July 2023, weeks before indicting Trump over the 2020 election, with key pricing and paperwork still withheld.

The CEO of Alexandria, Virginia-based Oxygen Forensics and a Russian national have been arrested on charges of hiding the firm’s Russian ownership and software origins from U.S. agencies that bought its products.

Sen. Susan Collins’ office is disputing a ProPublica report linking her 2020 campaign to a Biden-era FBI bribery investigation, saying the campaign was never a target and cooperated fully with investigators.

The Justice Department charged 16 people in seven states with illegal voting and related election crimes, and officials say the Trump administration’s broader investigation now spans more than 1,620 open cases and over 300,000 suspected instances of noncitizen voting.