Anonymous ID: 9f44a0 July 3, 2018, 5:08 p.m. No.2018730   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8859 >>8935

Top DOJ official to resign; Sessions names replacement

Successor won't oversee Mueller probe

m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/3/scott-schools-resign-doj-office/

  1. Associate Deputy Attorney General Scott Schools announced Tuesday that he will step down this week.

  2. Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed Bradley Weinsheimer to be acting associate deputy attorney general upon Mr. Schools‘ resignation, which is effective Friday.

  3. Unlike his predecessor, Mr. Weinsheimer will not be involved with special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

  4. Mr. Schools has been an active figure in the Mueller investigation, one of a few Justice Department officials to receive updates about the ongoing probe, NPR reported. It also connected the outgoing deputy attorney general to former FBI Deputy Directer Andrew McCabe as the one who recommended Mr. McCabe be fired.