Ashcroft and aides form consulting firm in Washington to advise companies

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By Deirdre Shesgreen
Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau
05/02/2005

WASHINGTON - John Ashcroft plans to use his expertise as the nation's former top cop and his political connections as Missouri's former U.S. senator in a business venture that will offer a mix of lobbying savvy and law-enforcement know-how.

The former Republican lawmaker, who resigned as U.S. attorney general last November, is forming a consulting firm, the Ashcroft Group, with one of his long-time political aides, David Ayres.

The pair have also hired another former Ashcroft aide, Juleanna Glover Weiss, to join them in the venture, which they expect to have up and running this month.

The firm will aim to help "big companies with big problems," Glover Weiss said. That means they will help businesses do everything from push legislative wish lists on Capitol Hill to navigate the new post-Enron laws governing corporate malfeasance. Advertisement

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[biscotti]

2. Why doesn't he

just slither back under his rock. What a zero. Complete jerk.

[KoKo]

3. I was just thinking about him the other day...wondering what he was up to

and figured it would be "no good." Yep...he's right there with the rest of them making a buck off their years in DC. He, Tom Daschle and the rest of them. The list of "consulting firms" lobbying DC with former members of Congress and Presidential Cabinets must be numbering in the thousands now. And...who knows how many Corporate Lobbyists are out there. It must be hard to get through the halls of congress fighting one's way through the mobs of them. :-(

[Dover]

What a waste....he had such a promising musical career ahead of him.

He really might have soared with the eagles.

[Dover]

4. .

[Nothing Without Hope]

5. Just closing the circle. n/t

[mitchum]

6. Another damn parasite who padded his resume on the taxpayer's dime

[cornermouse]

7. Well, I guess if they're looking for prostitutes...