The Justice Department announced Wednesday it will no longer allow prosecutors to strike settlement agreements with big companies directing them to make payouts to outside groups, ending an Obama-era practice that Republicans decried as a “slush fund” that padded the accounts of liberal interest groups. “No private lawyer could give away a client’s settlement money, and no government lawyer may do so either. It is time for this unlawful practice to end,” Larkin wrote in 2016. “No private lawyer could give away a client’s settlement money, and no government lawyer may do so either. The agreement was struck under then-Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department.

Source: Fox News June 07, 2017 12:48 UTC