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revolv dr changed teams? Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison as a litigation partner in its New York EXXON SACKLERS

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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04**012017**/exxon-climate-investigation-jeff-sessions-attorney-general-trump

over the past year, the battle lines formed along partisan lines on the question of whether the Justice Department should launch a probe intoExxonMobil's stance on climate change.

The designated referee in that battle was to have been U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who received the formal letters staking out each side's position on an investigation.

One of those letters, sent by five Republican senators sympathetic to Exxon, carried the signature of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, who isDonald Trump's choice to succeed Lynch as the next attorney general.

That letter argued that a federal investigation of Exxon would suppress debate on the validity of climate change and amounted to prosecutorial misconduct. Any investigation of the oil giant must be stopped immediately and no future probes initiated, Sessions and the other senators told Lynch.

If he is confirmed by the Senate to replace Lynch, Sessions will become the nation's top law enforcement officer and would hold ultimate authority on the future of any federal investigations of Exxon, making it highly unlikely that any investigation underway would proceed any further. Sessions did not respond to an interview request.

Sessions would have a seat at Trump's cabinet table alongside like-minded climate denialists tapped to run the Environmental Protection Agency as well as the Departments of Commerce, Interior and Energy. And even if Rex Tillerson, Trump's choice for secretary of state, has acknowledged the scientific consensus that the risks of climate change are real and need to be dealt with, he has been the chief executive of Exxon for the past 10 years.

In other words, Sessions will fit comfortably into an administration loaded with supporters of the fossil fuel industry. That leaves little hope federal authorities will take action on Exxon, said Joel Schwartz, a former federal prosecutor who worked on the prosecution of the tobacco industry.

"If they don't see climate change as causing a problem then there is no crime to prevent; there is no wrong to right," Schwartz said. "Under their argument there can be no bad actors—just scientists with honest differences of opinion."

California Reps. Ted Lieu and Mark DeSaulnier were among the first to call for Lynch to open a probe of Exxon.The two Democrats asked the attorney general to determine whether Exxon had violated federal law by "organizing a sustained deception campaign disputing climate science" and "failing to disclose truthful information" about climate change.

The request came in the wake of an investigative series ofstories published by InsideClimate News that reveals Exxon scientists were warning of potentially catastrophic effects of a buildup of atmospheric carbon dioxide from fossil fuels as early as 1977. (The Los Angeles Times laterpublished stories researched by the Columbia School of Journalism.)

The Justice Department confirmed in January that it had referred the request to the FBI for an initial inquiry, but no details were ever disclosed.

In May, Sessions was one of five Republican senators who demanded Lynch halt that preliminary investigation.

"We write today to demand that the Department of Justice (DOJ) immediately cease its ongoing use of law enforcement resources to stifle private debate on one of the most controversial public issues of our time—climate change," according to the letter.

Sessions was joined by Sens. Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, David Perdue and David Vitter in signing the letter that suggested a prosecution of Exxon would amount to prosecutorial misconduct.

"As you well know, initiating criminal prosecution for a private entity's opinions on climate change is a blatant violation of the First Amendment and an abuse of power that rises to the level of prosecutorial misconduct," they told Lynch.

David Vladeck, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and former director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection of the Federal Trade Commission, said the position staked out by Sessions and the others in the letter to Lynch is a signal Exxon will get a free pass at the federal level.

"That means it will be left to the state attorneys general to pick up the cudgel if there is going to be any holding Exxon accountable," he said.

But given Exxon's resources, its powerful allies in Congress and the ferocity it has shown in attacking the investigations being undertaken by New York and Massachusetts, other attorneys general may be reluctant to engage in litigation.

"They may believe it's the right thing to do, but they know they can't sustain the fight they will surely encounter," Vladeck said. "So Exxon...will go on about its business without being held accountable for its conduct."

Lieu and DeSaulnier, both Democrats from Southern California, are grudgingly accepting what lies ahead.

"It's not looking very encouraging," DeSaulnier said.

Lieu said he hopes the FBI will turn up enough evidence that cannot be ignored, but said, "I am pessimistic about the attorney general's office."

Exxon may also find a more agreeable Securities and Exchange Commission under the Trump administration. The SEC reportedly launched an investigation into how Exxon accounts for climate change impacts when it values its assets. Exxon has confirmed the SEC investigation and pledged its cooperation.

In the wake of the probe, Exxon announced in October that it was revising the estimated value of its Canadian tar sands reserves to conform to SEC guidelines.

On Wednesday, Trump announced lawyer Jay Clayton as his choice to replace Mary Jo White as SEC chair. Clayton has represented a number of Wall Street giants and could be instrumental in helping implement Trump's promise to scale back on financial regulation.

In addition to designating a chair, the new president likely will be making three other appointments this year to the five-member commission.

The commission is designed as a non-partisan body, and no more than three commissioners may belong to the same political party. Appointees are subject to confirmation by the Senate.

Yet Trump will shape the commission with conservative appointees who will be industry-friendly and lenient enforcers of regulatory rules, according to experts.

It's unlikely Trump will appoint commissioners explicitly opposed to investigating Exxon, saidAndrew Vollmer, a law professor at the University of Virginia and former deputy general counsel at the SEC. New Republican commissioners, however, are likely to share the president's ideological policy preferences, he said.

"The kind of people he will pick can influence and affect investigations," Vollmer said. "There is nothing improper about that as long as a commissioner does not have a conflict of interest."

Trump's appointee to head the SEC, for instance, could instruct the SEC's enforcement division to stop a particular investigation, he said. But that carries the risk of alienating staff and exposing the commission to public criticism, making the power more theoretical than real, he said.

Still, he said, "the chair has the power."

If allegations of wrongdoing came from a whistleblower, then the SEC would be mandated to conduct a summary investigation of Exxon, according to according toBevis Longstreth, a former SEC commissioner who was appointed by Ronald Reagan. But even then, it need only be a cursory look to satisfy the statutory requirements that the credibility of whistleblower complaints be weighed, Longstreth said.

"I don't think you can look to the SEC—given what will be its be makeup—to do very much in the way of an Exxon investigation," he said.

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elite Law Students to Paul, Weiss: Drop ExxonMobil

Students at some of the nation’s top law schools are demanding that law firm Paul, Weiss, a top U.S. law firm, drop ExxonMobil as a client.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/business/loretta-lynch-paul-weiss.html

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Loretta Lynch, Former Attorney General, Is Joining a Top Law Firm Back in New York

“New York is really my professional home,” said Loretta Lynch, who will become a litigation partner at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison.

“New York is really my professional home,” said Loretta Lynch, who will become a litigation partner at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison.Credit...Erin Schaff for The New York Times

By Matthew Goldstein

May 28, 2019

In the two years since leaving her post as the world’s most powerful prosecutor, Loretta Lynch has kept a low profile. She cared for her elderly parents. She gave the occasional commencement speech. She refrained from loudly criticizing her successors in the Trump administration.

Now Ms. Lynch, the first black woman to serve as United States attorney general, is about to re-emerge in the legal world. She is joining the law firm Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison as a litigation partner in its New York office, where she will work on complex lawsuits and defend companies in criminal prosecutions.

Before President Barack Obama nominated her in 2014 to serve as attorney general, Ms. Lynch was the United States attorney in Brooklyn, a post she had also held under President Bill Clinton.

“New York is really my professional home. It’s where I have garnered my most significant experience,” she said in an interview. “I feel like New York has the most diverse and legal environment in the country if not the world.”

Brad Karp, the law firm’s chairman, was in Ms. Lynch’s graduating class at Harvard Law School.

“Loretta is one of the most highly regarded lawyers in the country, with a unique background and a unique set of experiences,” he said. “She is collegial and collaborative.”

Between her two stints as United States attorney, Ms. Lynch was a partner with the law firmHogan & Hartson. She has served on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and was the special counsel to the international tribunal that prosecuted those responsible for human rights violations and genocide in Rwanda in the early 1990s.

As the top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, Ms. Lynch oversaw a number of high-profile public corruption cases, as well as the investigation that led to the filing of bribery charges against officials with FIFA, the international soccer organization.

As attorney general, she issued a report that found the Chicago Police Department relied too heavily on deadly force. She was an advocate for making it easier for felons to re-enter society.

But her nearly two-year tenure was partly defined by her department’s handling of investigations into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.

In June 2016, with the presidential campaign in full swing, former President Clinton boarded Ms. Lynch’s Justice Department plane on the tarmac in Phoenix. When the visit became public, it raised questions about her ability to oversee the investigation in an impartial manner. A report from the department’s inspector general later found that the brief meeting “was an error in judgment.” Ms. Lynch has said she viewed it as purely social.

As a former attorney general, Ms. Lynch, 60, was an attractive job candidate for many law firms. She was also coveted in an industry that has faced intensifying criticism for its lack of racial and gender diversity.

A recent report by the New York City Bar Association faulted top law firms for the “slow ascension to leadership and elevated attrition rates for attorneys of color and women.” The report found that after years of steady progress, the recruitment and advancement of minorities at big law firms had stagnated and even regressed.

Paul Weiss has a better record on that front than most big law firms. The nonprofit group Lawyers of Color found this year that Paul Weiss had the highest percentage of black lawyers — 8 percent — of the 400 firms it ranked.

But Paul Weiss has not been immune to criticism. This year, when the firm posted a photo on LinkedIn of a dozen new partners — all but one of them white men — it set off outrage on social media.

Ms. Lynch said Paul Weiss was a leader in focusing on diversity and took a “holistic approach to providing equal opportunity through the ranks.” She said that was important because at big law firms there was a tendency for “a lot of women and minority to move on to other professions.”

Since leaving office, she has taken a muted tone to criticizing the Trump administration. Delivering the commencement address at the Hofstra University Law School last week, she said the nation’s commitment to reason and the rule of law “now falls under daily attack from those we once trusted to uphold them.” By contrast, her immediate predecessor as attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., recently blasted Attorney General William Barr as being “not fit” to lead the Justice Department.

Ms. Lynch said she would rather stick to commenting on policy disagreements. She said in the interview that she was concerned that the Justice Department was backing away from its commitment to civil rights, especially when it comes to dealing with community policing.

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Senators Demand DOJ Cease Investigation Into Opponents of President Obama’s Energy Policies

may 26, 2016

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202-228-7561 WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), David Perdue (R-Ga.), and David Vitter (R-La.) today sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, demanding that the Department of Justice (DOJ) end its use of law enforcement resources against political opponents of President Obama’s energy agenda.

“These actions provide disturbing confirmation that government officials at all levels are threatening to wield the sword of law enforcement to silence debate on climate change,” the letter reads. “As you well know, initiating criminal prosecution for a private entity’s opinions on climate change is a blatant violation of the First Amendment and an abuse of power that rises to the level of prosecutorial misconduct.”

The letter goes on to demand that Attorney General Lynch confirm that all investigations into any private individual’s views on climate change end within 14 days and promise not to initiate any future such investigations.

“Freedom of thought and inquiry is at the very heart of liberty,” Sen. Cruz said. “Sadly, the Obama administration and its allies in state attorney general offices across the country are threatening to use the power of government to intimidate and ultimately silence companies and researchers who do not agree with the government’s opinions about the allegedly harmful effects of climate change and what should be done about it. This is an abuse of power and a direct assault on the First Amendment. The Obama Justice Department should immediately cease any further consideration of such action and should instead do everything in its power to protect the freedom of thought of all Americans.”

“Threatening prosecution of those who dare to challenge the most outlandish scaremongering by climate activists strikes at the very heart of the Free Speech protections on which this nation was founded,” Sen. Lee said. “Issuing subpoenas to harass researchers and academics with whom they have communicated, as some state attorneys general offices have done, shows a basic disregard for Americans’ Freedom of Association. The public expects us to prevent such abuses, not perpetrate them. It is our responsibility to contain the inevitable chilling effects by calling for an end to any consideration by the Department of Justice of such harassment at once.”

“I have serious concerns any time that the Department of Justice uses its power to repress constitutionally protected speech and open dialogue on any public policy issue,” Sen. Perdue said. “Given the unprecedented politicization of the Obama Justice Department, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s oversight responsibilities have become more important than ever before. There is no place in our democracy for politically-motivated investigations by the Department of Justice.”

“Unnecessary government intrusion of private citizens’ lives is an unfortunate characteristic of the reign of the Obama Administration,” Sen. Vitter said. “It is contemptible for the Justice Department to target and threaten individual American citizens and private or non-profit organizations in pursuit of its far-left environmental agenda.”

Read the letter in its entirety here.

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http://www.alternet.org/environment/sen-sheldon-whitehouse-wsj-caters-fossil-fuel-interestsagain

In recent weeks the right-wing attack machine has been up in arms regarding a letter sent by a group of 20 climate scientists to President Barack Obama, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and White House science adviser John Holdren requesting that the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate fossil-fuel companies that appear to have lied about the effects of their products on our world's climate. This week, the Wall Street Journal joined the fray, writing that "[a]dvocates of climate regulation are urging the Obama Administration to investigate people who don't share their views... they want the feds to use a law created to prosecute the mafia against lawful businesses and scientists."

As the Wall Street Journal and others have noted, and as the scientists' letter acknowledges, I myself raised the possibility of an investigation along these lines in a Washington Post op-edearlier this year. The connection prompted the Journal to quote Georgia Tech's Judith Curry - a prominent climate denier - attacking both me and the scientists. "The demand by Senator Whitehouse and the 20 climate scientists for legal persecution of people whose research on science and policy they disagree with represents a new low in the politicization of science," she said.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_Lynch

Loretta Elizabeth Lynch (born May 21, 1959) is an American lawyer who served as the 83rd attorney general of the United States from 2015 to 2017. She was appointed by President Barack Obama to succeed Eric Holder and previously served as theUnited States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York under both Presidents Bill Clinton(1999–2001) and Barack Obama(2010–2015). As a U.S. attorney, Lynch oversaw federal prosecutions in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Long Island.

Born in Greensboro, North Carolina, Lynch graduated from Harvard Law School in 1984. She then practiced law in New York and became a federal prosecutor in 1990, rising to become head of the Eastern District office. She later returned to private law practice, until she again became the top district prosecutor. From 2003 to 2005, she served on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

On November 8, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated her to succeed Eric Holder as Attorney General.^[1] On February 26, 2015, the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate recommended her confirmation by a 12–8 vote, with all Democrats of the committee and three Republicans in favor. On April 23, 2015, Lynch was confirmed by the Senate by a 56–43 vote, making her the second African American, the second woman and the first African-American woman to be confirmed for the position. She was sworn in as Attorney General on April 27, 2015. Her tenure ended on January 20, 2017.

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Lynch was born on May 21, 1959, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Her mother, Lorine Lynch was a school librarian and her father, Lorenzo Lynch a Baptist minister both graduated from the HBCU Shaw University. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded on the campus of Shaw University.^[2][3][4] As a child, she spent hours with her father, watching court proceedings in the courthouse of Durham, North Carolina. Her early interest in court proceedings was compounded by stories of her grandfather, a sharecropper and pastor, who in the 1930s helped people move to the north to escape racial persecution under the Jim Crow laws of the time.^[2][5] Lynch earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and American literature from Harvard College in 1981 and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1984, where she was a member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.^[6][7] She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, and was a charter member of the Xi Tau chapter of the sorority while at Harvard.^[8][9] In 2017, Lynch was awarded an honorary degree from Duke University.^[10]

Career[

Lynch's first legal job was as a litigation associate for **Cahill Gordon & Reindel** in New York City. She joined the Eastern District as a drug and violent-crime prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office in 1990. From 1994 to 1998, she served as the chief of the Long Island office and worked on several political corruption cases involving the government of Brookhaven, New York. From 1998 to 1999, she was the chief assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District and headed the Brooklyn office.

In 1999, she was nominated by President Bill Clinton to serve as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.^[11] During her term as U.S. Attorney, Lynch oversaw prosecution of New York City police officers in the Abner Louima case.

In 2001, Lynch left the U.S. Attorney's office to become a partner at Hogan & Hartson (later Hogan Lovells). She remained there until January 20, 2010, when President Barack Obama nominated Lynch to again serve as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.^[7][12] From 2003 to 2005, she was a member of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.^[13]

Following the July 2014 death of Eric Garner, an unarmed man who died after being held in a department-prohibited chokehold by a New York City police officer, Lynch agreed to meet with Garner's family to discuss possible federal prosecution of the officer believed to be responsible for Garner's death.^[14][15]

Lynch's office prosecuted Republican congressman Michael Grimm; prosecuted Democratic politicians Pedro Espada Jr. and William Boyland, Jr.; investigated Citigroup over mortgage securities sold by the bank, resulting in a US$7 billion settlement; and was involved in the US$1.2 billion settlement with HSBC over violations of the Bank Secrecy Act.^[2][16][17]

While Lynch was U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, she supervised the investigation into senior FIFA officials from its earliest stages. The investigation culminated in the indictment of 14 senior FIFA officials and sports marketing executives shortly after Lynch was confirmed as Attorney General.^[18] For her work in the case, which eventually led to the resignation of FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Lynch was presented with the 3rd annual Golden Blazer by NBC Sports' Men in Blazers (Roger Bennett and Michael Davies).^[19] (The other winners so far include ESPN's Bob Ley, NBC's Rebecca Lowe, FOX's Rob Stone and former US women's national team captains and FIFA Women's World Cup winners Julie Foudy and Megan Rapinoe.)

Replacing Lynch, Robert Capers was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York on December 15, 2015, taking his oath of office on January 4, 2016.^[20][21]

Attorney General of the United States[

Nomination[

On November 8, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Lynch for the position of U.S. Attorney General, to succeed Eric Holder, who had previously announced his resignation, pending confirmation of his replacement. She was confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 26, 2015, and approved by the Senate in a 56–43 vote on April 23,^[22] thereby becoming the first African-American woman; the second African-American after Holder; and the second woman, after Janet Reno; to hold this office.^[1][23]

Several Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, including chairman Chuck Grassley, opposed Lynch's confirmation, saying it was important to find out more about Lynch's role in settling a $1.9 billion money-laundering deal with HSBC when she served as United States Attorney in New York.^[24] Rand Paul, though not on the committee, opposed her nomination for her support of civil forfeiture.^[25] On April 23, 2015, cloture was invoked on her nomination by a vote of 66 to 34.^[26] Her appointment was confirmed the same day by a 56 to 43 vote.^[22][27] Her nomination process was one of the longest in the history of the United States, taking 166 days after she was first nominated for the post.^[28] She was sworn in by Vice President Joe Biden on April 27, 2015.^[29]

Tenure[

Lynch at the Oval Office following the San Bernardino shooting, December 2015

Lynch speaking at a naturalization ceremony, November 2016

In July 2015, after the Charleston church shooting, Lynch announced the suspected shooter Dylann Roof would be charged with a hate crime.^[30] On May 24, 2016, she furtherannounced that the Justice Department would seek the death penalty for Roof.^[31]

On December 7, 2015, Lynch stated the Justice Department would be investigating the Chicago Police Department to see if there was a potential violation of civil rights in the case of Laquan McDonald.^[32]

On March 3, 2016, following the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Lynch said charges would be filed soon against participants in the standoff while appearing in Portland, Oregon to commemorate the community's policing.^[33]

After the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Lynch's name was mentioned as being a potential nominee to replace him. On March 8, a Justice Department spokesperson said Lynch had asked the White House to withdraw her from consideration.^[34]

In April 2016, Lynch took an active role in addressing what she called the difficulty of re-entry into society by felons, writing an op-ed^[35] and making public appearances in support of raising awareness of this blight on their transition,^[36] also calling on governors to make it easier for released felons to achieve state-issued identification.^[37]

In May 2016, Lynch delivered the commencement address at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia.

In June 2016, in response to the Orlando nightclub shooting, Lynch made multiple appearances on television news shows to highlight the ongoing investigation of the FBI,^[38] disclosing that edited transcripts of the conversation between the shooter and the FBI negotiators would be released.^[39] On June 21, Lynch traveled to Orlando to both meet with survivors and inquire into the ongoing investigation, also bringing with her $1 million in emergency funding for Florida, Orange County, and Orlando to help pay for overtime and other investigative costs.^[40]

In October 2016, Lynch removed the Brooklyn FBI agents and federal prosecutors from the death of Eric Garner case, replacing them with agents from outside New York.^[41] The local FBI agents and federal prosecutors had determined that charges should not be brought in the case, prompting strong disagreement from attorneys in the Washington, D.C. office of the Department's Civil Rights Division.^[41] Lynch's intervention has been called "highly unusual".^[41]

Hillary Clinton email investigation[

In early March 2016, hackers working with Dutch intelligence had reportedly provided a highly classified Russian government document to the FBI.^[42] The document, which had "possible translation issues," had purportedly contained a memorialization of an alleged conversation between Lynch and Amanda Renteria.^[43][44] One of the allegations within the document reportedly said that Renteria had been assured that "Lynch would keep the Clinton investigation from going too far."^[45][46][47] FBI Director James Comey said it was "one of the bricks in the load" that led to his decision to not consult with the Department of Justice before closing the investigation, even though Lynch had denied ever speaking with Renteria, in addition to the FBI determining that the document was not credible.^{[48][47][49][50]}

On June 27, 2016, Lynch and former President Bill Clinton met privately aboard Lynch's Justice Department jet, which was parked on the ramp in**Phoenix,** Arizona. ABC15 Phoenix reporter Christopher Sign broke the story on June 29, citing unnamed sources.^[51] The following day, during a press conference in Phoenix, Lynch denied the conversation was about the Hillary Clinton email controversy or any matters pertaining to it, saying the discussion instead involved personal social topics such as travels, golf, and grandchildren.^[52] On July 1, 2016, Lynch swore she would "fully accept" the recommendation of the FBI and prosecutors regarding the email probe, and admitted that she understood how the meeting was raising "questions and concerns", and that she "certainly wouldn't do it again".^[53] On July 6, a day after FBI Director James Comey recommended not pressing charges against Clinton, Lynch confirmed the Justice Department had opted to not pursue charges against Clinton and would close the probe into her private email server.^[54] On July 12, Lynch testified before Republican lawmakers, on the legal basis of the Justice Department's choice to not prosecute Clinton.^[55]

On June 8, 2017, former FBI head James Comey testified under oath that Lynch had instructed him (during the course of a private conversation) to not refer to the Clinton email scandal as an "investigation" and instead refer to it as a "matter". He also said that the directive, combined with Lynch's Phoenix ramp meeting with former President Clinton, led him to make his independent announcement regarding the Clinton email probe last July. In his closely watched Senate Intelligence Committee testimony, otherwise devoted to discussing the circumstances of his firing, Comey said that tarmac meeting was a "deciding factor" in his decision to act alone to update the public on the Clinton probe—and protect the Bureau's reputation.^[56][57][58]

In June 2017, the Senate Judiciary Committee launched a bipartisan investigation into whether or not Lynch tried to interfere with the Hillary Clinton email investigation.^[59] The following month, Lynch issued a statement through her lawyer pledging to cooperate with the investigation and denying the allegation she had given assurances to a Clinton campaign staffer that she would limit the email investigation.^[60] The Department of Justice Inspector General also investigated the handling of the Clinton email investigation.^[61] The Inspector General's report, released in June 2018, called Lynch's tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton an error of judgment for the public perception it created, but found no political bias.^[62]

Personal life[

Lynch married Stephen Hargrove in 2007. In her personal life, she uses her married name, Loretta Lynch Hargrove. Her husband has two children from a previous marriage.^[2][63]..

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