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Chris Christie
June 2004, served as theUnited States Attorney for New Jersey from 2002 to 2008.
During the second term of George W. Bush, a controversy arose about the administration's dismissal of several U.S. attorneys, allegedly for political reasons. When it was revealed that Christie had been on a preliminary version of the hit list, New York Senator Charles Schumer said: "I was shocked when I saw Chris Christie's name on the list last night. It just shows a [Justice] department that has run amok.”Pat Meehan, the U.S. attorney in Philadelphia, said: "Among his peers, Chris stands out as one of the most admired. If you were to create a list of the U.S. attorneys who have had the greatest impact, Chris would be one of the top two or three names I'd put on it. This defies explanation.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Christie
Christopher Asher Wray
Christopher Asher Wray was born in New York City. His father, Cecil A. Wray Jr., was a graduate ofVanderbilt University and Yale Law Schoolwho worked as a lawyer at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York City
OnJune 9, 2003, President George W. Bush nominated Wrayto be the33rdAssistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division of the Justice Department. Wray was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on September 11, 2003. Wray was Assistant Attorney General from 2003 to 2005, working under Deputy Attorney General James Comey. While heading the Criminal Division, Wray oversaw prominent fraud investigations, including Enron. Wray was Assistant Attorney General from 2003 to 2005, working under Deputy Attorney General James Comey.
Following the dismissal of FBI Director James Comey on May 9, 2017,New Jersey Governor Chris Christie presented to President Donald Trump the possibility of hiring Wray as Comey's replacement.According to then Press Secretary Sean Spicer, Trump interviewed Wray for the vacant FBI Director job on May 30. Eight days later, Trump announced his intention to nominate Wray to be the next FBI Director.
In 2005, Wray returned to King & Spalding as a litigation partner in the firm's Washington, D.C., and Atlanta offices. Wray represented several Fortune 100 companies and chaired the King & Spalding Special Matters and Government Investigations Practice Group. During his time at King & Spalding, Wray acted as New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's personal attorney during the Bridgegate scandal. Wray's firm also representsRussian energy giants Gazprom and Rosneft, an issue which came under contention during the confirmation process for position of FBI Director.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_A._Wray
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King & Spalding LLP
The firm has represented various large companies and private equity funds.
The firm "advises Donald Trump's real estate empire", according to one report which also cited the American Civil Liberties Union on the subject.[13] The partnership includes former senior U.S. government officials who joined or rejoined the firm after government service; these officials include Sally Yates, Rod Rosenstein, Zachary T. Fardon, and many others.
In 2018 the firm filed a Foreign Agents Registration Act application notifying their work as an advisor to the Saudi Arabian organization King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy, which was created by King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to pursue a nuclear program.[14] It received $705,171.21 for this advice.[15]
The firm has also represented the steel-manufacturing corporation Cleveland-Cliffs.
The firm provided Guantanamo Bay attorneys for six Yemeni detainees, including Mohammed Al-Adahi. The firm was appointed as independent counsel to the Special Court for Sierra Leone, following allegations of war crimes against the country's former president, and undertook litigation and research assistance for the prosecutor's office in the U.N.-assisted Khmer Rouge Tribunal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_%26_Spalding
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP- is an international white-shoe law firm headquartered in New York City, with offices in Washington D.C., San Francisco, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Luxembourg. The firm specializes in intellectual property, white-collar crime and government investigations, international arbitration, M&A, private equity, insurance, and securities law. The firm was founded in 1931 by Eli Whitney Debevoise, a descendant of Eli Whitney, and William E. Stevenson, a gold medalist in the 1924 Summer Olympics.In 2021, the firm assisted the Democratic Party in the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump.
Representation of the family that controls Purdue Pharma
Debevoise represented four members of the Sackler family, which controls Purdue Pharma, the company that developed and marketed the painkiller Oxycontin.Purdue, along with other opioid makers, faced over 2,000 suits in 2019 by state, city, and county officials who blame prescription opiates for the death of thousands of Americans in the opioid epidemic. For its legal work amid the opioid scandal, Purdue Pharma paid Debevoise the majority of its legal spend: more than $11.4 million out of a total of more than $17.5 million.
Assistance to Guantanamo prisoners.
Attorneys from Debevoise & Plimpton worked on behalf of prisoners held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. Jeff Lang, of Debevoise & Plimpton, was one of the first Guantanamo Bay attorneys to file an appeal in the Federal appeal court in Washington DC of prisoners' Combatant Status Review Tribunal proceedings. The Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 included provision for prisoners to challenge whether the Tribunals' decisions complied with the Tribunal's mandate. Charles "Cully" Stimson, then Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, stirred controversy when he went on record criticizing the patriotism of law firms that allowed employees to assist Guantanamo prisoners: "corporate CEOs seeing this should ask firms to choose between lucrative retainers and representing terrorists." Stimson's views were widely criticized. The Pentagon disavowed them, and Stimson resigned shortly thereafter.
Christopher Wray's father, Cecil A. Wray Jr., is Partner at Debevoise & Plimpton (https://www.alternet.org/2017/07/fbi-nominee-christopher-wray-sure-looks-dirty)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debevoise_&_Plimpton
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Meet Mary Jo White, Senior Chair of Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP
Mary Jo White is an American attorney who served as the 31st chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from 2013 to 2017. She was the first woman to be the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, serving from 1993 to 2002. On January 24, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated White to replace Elisse B. Walter as Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She was confirmed by the Senate on April 8, 2013, and was sworn into office on April 10, 2013. In 2014, she was listed as the 73rd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
On November 14, 2016, White announced she would step down from her SEC position at the end of the president's term. In her subsequent return to private practice she represented criminal defendants including Les Wexner, an associate of Jeffrey Epstein, and the Sackler family, owners of opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma. She is now the Senior Chair at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York City.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jo_White
Eli Whitney Debevoise (December 14, 1899 – June 30, 1990) was a prominent New York lawyer who co-founded the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton and periodically served in a variety of high-profile government positions
He graduated fromYale Universityin 1921 and fromHarvard Law Schoolin 1925. After graduation, Debevoise immediately joined his father’s Manhattan law practice, but later became an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell, a firm headed by John W. Davis, the Democratic candidate for president in 1924.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Whitney_Debevoise
Hmmm. So Mary Pat Christie sits on the board of Orexo specializing in Opioid Use Disorder drugs, and Christopher Wray is linked to the lawfirm (Debevoise & Plimpton LLP/Mary Jo White) defending Opiod manufacturer, Purdue Pharma. Problem-Solution-> Profit.
MAKE IT RAIN,Q+!!
Is Nancy's congressional liquor store still open? Can that be fucking closed?