The Department of Justice blasted House Republicans for spreading the "completely baseless" claim that the federal agency was behind the New York hush money trial of former President Donald Trump. "The conspiracy theory that the recent jury verdict in New York state court was somehow controlled by the Department is not only false, it is irresponsible," assistant Attorney General Carlos Uriarte told House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, in a letter obtained by CNBC. The fiery reply to the high-ranking lawmaker was just one thrust in a multipronged effort by the DOJ to refute conspiracies about Trump's historic conviction by a Manhattan Supreme Court jury on 34 counts of falsifying business rec