WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Adam Schiff issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is opening a new inquiry (https://www.schiff.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026.07.08_Letter_to_Acting_AG_Blanche_re_Abbott_Labs.pdf) into the Department of Justice (DOJ) reportedly dropping a major criminal case involving contaminated baby formula produced by Abbott Laboratories.
Schiff launched the probe today demanding answers from Acting Attorney General Blanche on who at DOJ made the decision to close the case, and what personal involvement Blanche had in potentially overruling Trump's own political appointees and career prosecutors that reportedly endorsed pursuing the c...