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Rachel Brand, DOJ's No. 3, Leaves for Walmart Top Legal Post
Brand has served as the associate attorney general since May 2017, reporting to the deputy, Rod Rosenstein, and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The New York Times first reported the news of Brands departure.
The men and women of the Department of Justice impress me every day, Brand said in a statement. I am proud of what we have been able to accomplish over my time here. I want to thank Attorney General Sessions for his leadership over this Department. Ive seen firsthand his commitment to the rule of law and to keeping the American people safe.
Brand would become a top legal officer at Walmart, a move that follows the Jan. 31 retirement of Jeffrey Gearhart. In 2012, Gearhart was promoted to head of global governance. Walmart, the worlds largest retailer, had been searching internally and externally for Gearharts successor.
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https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/sites/nationallawjournal/2018/02/09/rachel-brand-dojs-no-3-is-leaving-for-walmarts-top-legal-post/?slreturn=20180109232141
RandySF
(59,408 posts)GWC58
(2,678 posts)for their taxes! I really despise those money grubbing, no good pieces of shit. No! Make that steaming piles of DOG SHIT!! I avoid that place like the plague.
tableturner
(1,684 posts)I think a joint operation between Trump and Walmat is at least plausible at this point.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)appointee. I've wondered about that integrity she has such a good reputation for -- which in many can be mixed from situation to situation -- since learning of her association with the slimy, amoral U.S. Chamber of Commerce, "Chief Counsel for Regulatory Litigation" (!) as Wikipedia has it.
This organization, just for instance, headed up an international effort to force nations promoting tobacco cessation to stop by making them pay tobacco companies damages for lost income. Its head even boasted arrogantly that they were succeeding, though they did not. And that's only one example of their venal depravity.
They're also believed to have taken unknown amounts of foreign money from undisclosed sources to invest in the battle for power between Democrats and Republicans. If one was Russia, and who believes one is not likely to be...?
mitty14u2
(1,015 posts)President Donald Trump's criticism of Sessions and Rosenstein specifically and the Justice Department the FBI more generally have increased the pressure on senior officials at both places
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/no-3-justice-department-official-leaving-walmart-n846531
I remember that you could register and vote during the Bill Clinton administration at Walmart in Arkansas, this is as Fishy, Brand quitting a high quality job offered by Walmart during a crazed presidency and oh by the way Walmarts owners getting MILLIONS back in taxes from Trumps Tax Law. Mueller if he is not in Trumps pocket needs to open his case against this administration ASAP and file in the blanks later or as he goes along!
Need to read; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Brand