AG Barr's SIL is now a legal advisor to trump!

[lillypaddle]

Newly confirmed Attorney General William Barr’s son-in-law just left his job in the Justice Department for a post in the White House counsel’s office, raising questions about a possible conflict of interest.

Tyler McGaughey, who is married to Barr’s youngest daughter, has duties in the new White House job that are unspecified, CNN reported. The counsel’s office “advises the President, the Executive Office of the President, and the White House staff on legal issues pertaining to the President and the White House,” the White House website says.

Walter Shaub, who directed the Office of Government Ethics under former President Barack Obama and left the post under President Donald Trump in 2017, told CNN the situation is “concerning.” It prompts “further questions about Barr’s independence,” he said.



[link:https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/02/19/attorney-general-william-barrs-son-in-law-trump-legal-adviser/23672878/|

[mitch96]

1. Here we go with pay to play politics again.. uff.... nt

[lillypaddle]

4. Not sure why

but I expected a little more than this from Barr.

[Leghorn21]

2. ..and Barr's daughter scored a job at FINCEN

Mary Daly, Barr's oldest daughter and the director of Opioid Enforcement and Prevention Efforts in the deputy attorney general's office, is leaving for a position at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the Treasury Department's financial crimes unit, a Justice official said.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/13/politics/barr-family-justice-department-moves/index.html

Poor dear Walter, I hope he someday sees an end to this endless parade of foul infamy

[lillypaddle]

8. Wait. What?

Is this because daddy is head of the DOJ now???

[Leghorn21]

9. Well, the timing seems to confirm that, lilly

Cheeze, FINCEN is one of our greatest tools for finding mobster money, if it’s compromised, uuunnnhhhh, not good

I believe they’ve probably already tracked a ton of chargeable offenses, they’ve been at it a while, but this just - isn’t heartening news

LORDY

[Johnny2X2X]

3. Barr should recuse himself from the Mueller investigation immediately

Stuff like this used to be a massive deal in this country. We've fallen so far so fast that it will barely make the news.

[enough]

6. +1

[CrispyQ]

7. The bigger you are the harder you fall.

Our fall has been spectacular so far. Will we right ourselves or will we hit bottom? I vacillate between being slightly optimistic to deeply pessimistic.

[enough]

5. Absolutely unacceptable. Our government has already been demolished by these people.

And they wouldn’t even know why it’s a problem.