Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Trump Transition Team Borrowing Steve Cohen’s Lawyer For Help With Draining The Swamp

 

If you’re a presidential transition team predicated on the notion of eradicating special interests from the American body politic and bringing prosperity back to America through a tsunami of populist revolution, why would you not hire the general counsel of a hedge fund run by a man whose name is synonymous with the dark side of finance and power?

"Kevin O’Connor, the general counsel for Steven A. Cohen’s investment firm, is overseeing staff picks for the Justice Department as a member of President-Elect Donald Trump’s transition team, according to a chart obtained by Bloomberg.

Sure, why not? If you’re looking to “Drain the Swamp” and “Make America Great Again,” the man who built his career as an SEC staff attorney, then became US Attorney in Connecticut, then US Associate Attorney General, then back to private practice before going to work for the guy whose firm pled guilty to the biggest insider trading charge in Connecticut history, seems like a pretty unimpeachable choice.

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Source: Dealbreaker (via The Empire Report)

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