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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill Barr Did WHAT? How Is This Not The Biggest Story In The Country Right Now?
https://abovethelaw.com/2020/11/bill-barr-did-what-how-is-this-not-the-biggest-story-in-the-country-right-now/amp/The fact that there are state election boards currently contemplating invalidating tens of thousands of votes is the only thing that keeps this off the top of every news outlet right now but the Attorney General potentially using his office to help his private book of business is not great.
Last night, Reuters broke the story that Attorney General Bill Barr, while working at Kirkland & Ellis, represented Caterpillar in a billion-dollar tax case that miraculously was dropped by the DOJ one week after Barr took over the Justice Department:
"A week after Barr was nominated for the job of attorney general, Justice officials in Washington told the investigative team in the active criminal probe of Caterpillar to take no further action in the case, according to an email written by one of the agents and reviewed by Reuters.
More at link.
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TomDaisy
(1,870 posts)634-5789
(4,175 posts)NAILED IT!
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)would it not?
A'course, what Cheney did with Halliburton and the Iraq War was more egregious than this (morally at least), and we all know what happened there (nothing, in case you didn't).
IOKIYAR always applies.
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)No wonder they do not want Joe Biden to become president.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)safeinOhio
(32,674 posts)bull frog in the swamp.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)DBoon
(22,356 posts)Did we play nice with the Mafia? With MS-13?
C_U_L8R
(44,998 posts)They only postponed things a few months.
Hugin
(33,133 posts)Pence's brother and the Russians are up to their eyeballs in CAT, too.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)I've read that Pence's brother is deeply involved with russia.
Yeehah
(4,585 posts)Barr is rotten to the core!
Qutzupalotl
(14,302 posts)As they say, the fish rots from the head down. Trump has corrupted almost all of the federal government, and appointments like Barr have corrupted justice.
malaise
(268,949 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)a hundred years to prosecute just Trump's personal malfeasance.