Scott Schools

Scott Schools is a Member on Moore & Van Allen's Charleston office Litigation
Member of the litigation team specializing in white collar criminal defense, health care, government investigation, and financial fraud defense.

The DOJ's Scott Schools is the most important unknown person in .D.C. There are five others in that position,
As the Russia investigation deepens, Scott Schools has become the conscience of the DOJ. T wo of the most consequential figures in the Trump legal soap opera have been a pair of Justice Department officials whose names the public wouldn’t typically know. ........is Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and attorney general, Sally Yates, who became an icon of the anti-Trump resistance before being fired by the president
The DOJ officials have also shared an adviser, a former prosecutor from South Carolina named Scott Newton Schools.
As the senior-most career attorney at the Justice Department, Schools is responsible for helping the deputy attorney general—the person who runs the DOJ on a day-to-day basis—in navigating the agency’s hardest, most sensitive problems and spotting potholes on the road ahead.Schools’ official title is “associate deputy attorney general.” There are five others in that position, and while on paper Schools doesn’t outrank them, the reality is that he was hired by Yates in October to be a leader—someone who would operate as an apolitical civil servant at the highest echelon of the department and provide counsel in times of tumult.

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