Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said on Friday that nothing “corrupt” occurred when the Department of Justice suddenly changed an eight-year-old legal interpretation in a way that clearly benefited President Donald Trump’s biggest political donor, casino oligarch Sheldon Adelson. “Your inference that somehow that process was corrupted or corrupt is absolutely wrong and the premise of your question I reject,” the acting attorney general said. “When and where and by whom remains to be seen.”ASSOCIATED PRESS Rep. Jamie Raskin questions acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker at a congressional hearing on Feb. 8, 2019. The Justice Department should “withdraw its opinion” because it rests on faulty legal grounding and could undermine state laws regulating online gaming and lotteries, argued a Feb. 5 letter to the DOJ from New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal and Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro. This meeting came ahead of the Senate’s confirmation hearing for William Barr, Trump’s choice for a permanent attorney general.

Source: Huffington Post February 08, 2019 23:26 UTC