Courtesy of Pam Martens
It’s starting to look very swampy again in the nation’s capitol. President Biden pushed forward a law partner from the law firm that notoriously represented Donald Trump and the Trump Organization on tax matters for 15 years, right up to January of this year, to be the head of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Astonishingly, on Tuesday, the Senate confirmed that nominee, Kenneth A. Polite, for the position.
The Trump Organization and its CFO, Allen Weisselberg, were indicted earlier this month on tax evasion charges.
Polite, a law partner with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, will now preside over the criminal division of DOJ, which holds the reins on whether to bring criminal charges against the well-connected and powerful in corporate America – his law firm’s former clients, and more than likely, his future clients if past precedent is any gauge. That doesn’t ensure confidence among the American people, nor does the history of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.
Another law partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Sheri Dillon, shared the stage with President-Elect Donald Trump on January 11, 2017 as one of his legal and tax advisors. This is what she told the American people that day: (Play close attention to her statement that “conflicts of interest laws simply do not apply to the president….”)
“President-elect Trump wants the American public to rest assured that all of his efforts are directed to pursuing the people’s business and not his own. To that end, as he explained a few moments ago, he directed me and my colleagues at the law firm Morgan Lewis and Bockius to design a structure for his business empire that will completely isolate him from the management of the company.
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