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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNewsweek flags: Christopher Wray's law firm advises Trump's trust, which holds his business assets
http://www.newsweek.com/fbi-director-search-john-pistole-christopher-wray-donald-trump-jared-kushner-617861Link to tweet
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)Raven
(13,899 posts)all the Trump business would be pulled from his law firm?
Zoonart
(11,876 posts)are cronies who are already bound up with him. I don't see how this guy gets confirmed. Just another fox in the hen house.
dlk
(11,575 posts)Solly Mack
(90,779 posts)It also figures that nothing will be done about the conflict of interest this causes.
No investigations from someone who will want to go back to his old job one day. Just another lackey who will protect assets instead of the people.
oasis
(49,400 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Finally and probably most importantly, also while AAG DOJ in the early days of the Plame investigation, Wray provided inappropriate briefings to John Ashcroft about what Ashcrofts buddies had said during FBI interviews.
This is what led to Ashcrofts recusal and the appointment, by Deputy Attorney General Jim Comey, of Patrick Fitzgerald as special counsel.
In short, it seems Wray is likely to ensure that highers up never see any consequences for their actions. And he sure seems likely to keep Trump in the loop on the investigation of Trump.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/06/07/trump-fbi-nominee-christopher-wray-gave-inappropriate-briefings-to-john-ashcroft-during-plame-investigation/
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029170290
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,755 posts)Let's bring the lawyers' bad practices into this cesspool we're investigating. You think this is uncommon? Lord no, it's not. Conflicts of interest abound in American society, and are getting worse because social networking IS replacing every safeguard that we once knew. The crossing over of the private and public sector was the beginning of the end.
Wake up, sleeping giant. Wake up.
MedusaX
(1,129 posts)Sources:
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/lobbying-hires/298975-saudi-arabia-hires-tenth-lobby-firm?amp
Tweet from @olgaNYC1211
Wtf!!! The New FBI Director Christopher Wray's Law Firm Last Year took on Rosneft as a client.. Remember Steele Dossier
#TrumpRussia
https://mobile.twitter.com/olgaNYC1211/status/872429168058912768
King & Spalding Notable Clients:
Rosneft, Oil India, Sakhalin Energy, Bashneft, Eco Energy World.
https://www.chambersandpartners.com/180/24/editorial/7/1
malaise
(269,157 posts)Worst President ever
Kleveland
(1,257 posts)I want to say; "Can this situation get any worse?"
Then sanity slaps me, and says "Oh yes, give it 15 minutes".
It has been said that it always gets darkest just before the dawn.
That does not make me feel any better, not at all.
DK504
(3,847 posts)That light you see at the end of the tunnel is actually a train barreling at you.
HAB911
(8,911 posts)YCHDT
(962 posts)progressoid
(49,996 posts)I'm going to go broke on booze and weed with this shit.