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...The role of special counsel is meant to insulate particularly sensitive Department of Justice investigations from accusations of political bias by choosing someone, often from outside the bureau — but familiar...
...US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, 2008-09 Evelyn FarkasExecutive Director, McCain Institute, Former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia...
...Glenn Gerstell, who was general counsel of the National Security Agency from 2015 to 2020, said it was unlikely Teixeira had undergone a polygraph test to receive his clearance but, even if he did, investigators...
...As former Treasury General Counsel Edward Knight concluded in 1994: Given the purpose of the ESF as a means of maintaining order in exchange markets and its genesis as a tool for counteracting similar funds...
...Banks are not legally prevented from advising Syngenta on that basis, said Benjamin Kostrzewa, former assistant general counsel at the Office of the US Trade Representative and a lawyer at Hogan Lovells...
...William Barr, the US attorney-general at the time, in 2019 directed Durham to conduct a review of the origins of the Russia probe, which morphed into a criminal investigation....
...Russia and the wider world Beyond the US, Europe and their allies, most countries disapprove of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, as seen in UN General Assembly votes since early 2022....
...Attorney-general Merrick Garland last month tapped Jack Smith as a special counsel to investigate the former president in connection with his role in the attack and his mishandling of sensitive government...
...The thought of legal risk weighed heavily on Ryne Miller, FTX US’s 40-year-old general counsel in New York....
...One of Sullivan’s partners, Ryne Miller, had just left the firm to become a general counsel at the crypto exchange....
...“The west has a problem with constrained defence industrial capacity,” said Mick Ryan, a former major general in the Australian army....
...Former CFTC lawyer and Gensler legal counsel Ryne Miller is currently general counsel at FTX....
...The Department of Defense report, released on Tuesday, detailed the post-Cold War surge in mergers which has shrunk the number of American defence prime contractors from 51 in 1990 to 5 today: Lockheed Martin...
...Mark Fletcher PPS to the business secretary“You suggested that the events of that night [when former deputy chief whip Chris Pincher was accused of drunkenly assaulting two men] were the fault of the colleagues...
...“There are some departments with a secretary of state but no ministers beneath them — they’ve all resigned,” said the person....
...Third Point Investors Ltd has been battling Asset Value Investors, which last month lost a vote to remove Third Point’s general counsel from the London fund’s board....
...The US Department of Defense is supporting the resumption of activity there by funding MP Materials, a private equity-backed company, and it has restarted excavations....
...But he could far more plausibly have selected Jeh Johnson, the former secretary of homeland security and Pentagon counsel....
...Minnesota attorney-general Keith Ellison has cautioned that a conviction would be difficult....
...A number of key members of his leadership team are following him out the door, including Horn, long-serving general counsel Alan Braverman and the formidable veteran communications chief Zenia Mucha, who...
...William Barr, the US attorney-general, said there was “no basis” for seizing voting machines or appointing a special counsel to look into voter fraud, in a clear rejection of President Donald Trump’s increasingly...
...Indeed, while much has been made of her background in enforcing trade law against China during her previous stint at in the late 2000s, when she was both a general counsel and then chief counsel for China...
...William Barr, US attorney-general, said on Tuesday he had not seen evidence of voter fraud that would affect the outcome of the presidential election, undermining Donald Trump’s claims the vote was stolen...
...Months after pleading guilty, Mr Flynn, a retired three-star general and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, hired new lawyers and sought to withdraw his plea....
...JUSTICE Sally Yates, a former deputy attorney-general, became prominent in 2017 as acting head of the justice department under Donald Trump when he fired her for refusing to defend his travel ban in court...
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