Preparing to restock the Department of Justice at the start of the Trump administration, Jeff Sessions sought out Elliott Broidy for recommendations. The Republican donor’s conviction in a political corruption case years earlier didn’t seem to be a problem.
In November 2016, just after the election, President-elect Donald
Trump announced Jeff Sessions as his pick for attorney general. His
confirmation was still a couple of months away, but the Republican
senator from Alabama went quickly to work helping to shape the Justice
Department he would soon inherit.
One task was to line up U.S. attorney nominees to potentially replace
Obama administration holdovers leading offices across the country. It
is a common bit of work for a new administration, and recommendations
for posts as federal prosecutors typically come from senators of every
state, as well as former Department of Justice officials.
In at least one instance, however, Sessions wound up turning to a
more unorthodox source for recommendations — Elliott Broidy. Broidy, a
longtime Republican donor, was not a lawyer, and thus had no experience
as a prosecutor. Moreover, Broidy had been convicted in 2009 for his
role in a major New York state public corruption and bribery case.
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