The department said the inaccurate initial filing resulted from a failure of communication between civil division lawyers handling the lawsuit and the criminal division prosecutors and F.B.I. agents who spent years investigating the case.
A "federal review into the circumstances" that led to Hunt's shooting in September last year is being conducted by the FBI and the justice department's civil rights division, prosecutors told an attorney representing Hunt's family in a letter this week.
In a statement, Stephen O'Doherty, of the CPS special crime division, said prosecutors could not prove Hain handled the unreported donations.
Lanny A. Breuer, the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's criminal division, said prosecutors were focused not only on lenders that underwrote risky mortgages, but also on companies that packaged and sold the mortgages to investors.
William Delker, chief of the state attorney general's criminal division, said prosecutors would decide soon whether to bring criminal charges against the diocese for endangering children by failing to remove abusive priests from public ministry in the years before Bishop McCormack's tenure.
The Libertarian Party's new vice presidential nominee, former Massachusetts governor William Weld, who once headed the Justice Department's criminal division, says prosecutors would have to prove criminal intent to charge Clinton, and "I don't see it".
"Our office has already launched an investigation into police misconduct in this case, specifically for obstruction of governmental administration and hindering prosecution," said Joseph Petrosino, the chief of the felony trial division and a prosecutor in the trial.
Ms. Caldwell, chief of the securities fraud division in the prosecutor's office in San Francisco, has a reputation for toughness and for helping juries make sense of complicated criminal cases.
Mary O'Callaghan's trial took an unexpected twist Thursday after an official in the Los Angeles Police Department's internal affairs division gave a prosecutor new information about a sergeant who witnessed the 2012 incident, said Robert Rico, O'Callaghan's attorney.
The evidence was persuasive enough so that Nancy Diehl, the former chief of the trial division for the Wayne County prosecutor's office, which has jurisdiction over Detroit, argued that the plea should be set aside.
