Weissman. That fool’s days are numbered, God willing.
FLASHBACK (note the author):
In Andrew Weissmann, The DOJ Makes a Stunningly Bad Choice for Crucial Role
AAG for the Criminal Division, Leslie Caldwell, reunites with her discredited henchman from a bogus Merrill Lynch prosecution
By Sidney Powell
01/12/15
Just when one thinks things can’t get any worse in the Department of Corrupting and Obstructing Justice, Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, Leslie Caldwell, brings back her long-time protégé and comrade Andrew Weissmann. She has empowered him to head the Fraud Section of the Department. Ms. Caldwell and Mr. Weissmann go way back—to the Eastern District of New York ( most recently run by Loretta Lynch) where they cut their teeth prosecuting major organized crime figures, while running cooperators’ cases on the secret docket to protect the unseemly deals they made.
As we predicted upon Ms. Caldwell’s ascension, brace for a major escalation in the war on American businesses. The head of the fraud section is an important and powerful position, and Mr. Weissmann shouldn’t have any difficulty passing the FBI background check. He departed as general counsel only a year ago.
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If Mr. Weissmann were subject to confirmation hearings, it might be a different story. Ms. Caldwell and Mr. Weissmann reunite as part a cabal of prosecutors from the old Enron Task Force, a frightening number of whom have been running our country behind the scenes during this administration. The Enron Task Force prosecutors ran roughshod over the rights of countless people in their pursuit of convictions rather than justice, and their strategies and tactics resulted in the reversal in whole or in part of every case they actually took to trial. Fresh off their secretly-corrupted convictions, they all received the Attorney General’s Award for Excellence, and they catapulted themselves to positions of enormous power and influence in Washington.
Kathryn Ruemmler became President Obama’s longest-serving White House Counsel, Lisa Monaco became his Counter-Terrorism Advisor, Andrew Weissmann became Deputy Director/General Counsel of the FBI, and Leslie Caldwell became AAG for the Criminal Division. Matthew Friedrich had already completed his stint as Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division where he micro-managed the corrupted prosecution of former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens during the Bush administration.
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