Justice Department shields Trumps anti-trust nominees emails from scrutiny
Source: raw story
05 Apr 2017 at 00:08 ET
Jeff Sessions speaks to CNN (screen grab)
DOJ Shields Trump’s Antitrust Nominee From Scrutiny
April 5, 2017
How the Trump administration will enforce antitrust law remains an open question, but don’t expect the Department of Justice to willingly provide many clues. Last week, the department said that it will not release any emails it may have from Makan Delrahim, the former corporate lobbyist Trump nominated in March to be the government’s top antitrust regulator.
The Justice Department’s declaration came in response to an open records request from International Business Times. That request asked for any email correspondence between the Justice Department’s antitrust division and Delrahim.
Delrahim, who served as deputy attorney general in the antitrust division under President George W. Bush, is currently deputy White House counsel and had been a registered lobbyist for clients with business before the antitrust division. One of his clients was health insurance giant Anthem, which is currently asking the antitrust division to settle a lawsuit blocking its $54 billion proposed merger with Cigna.
IBT’s request specifically asked the government to release any email correspondence between antitrust regulators and Delrahim’s lobbying firm email address. In response, the department said “we can neither confirm nor deny the existence” of such email correspondence. However, the Justice Department also asserted that if such emails did exist, they are exempt from open records laws...............................
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As Maddow and her panel pointed out tonight--so much is going on behind the scenes at the WH that affect us all!1
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