Ashcroft: No Conflict in Former Employee Giving Me $50 Million Contract
Well of course he says there’s no conflict! WTF did they think he’d say? This is wrong? There is a conflict? Geezzzzzz. These crooks do any damn thing they want, legal or illegal, conflict or no conflict and they get away with it time and time and time and time again. Why ask the slime bag who has the conflict if it’s a conflict? He says there isn’t, so that makes it all A-ok, eh congress? How stupid can they be? How stupid do they think we are?
Former attorney general John D. Ashcroft today strenuously defended a government’sanctioned contract that could earn his consulting firm more than $50 million, saying there is no conflict of interest in the appointment made by one of his former U.S. attorneys.
Ashcroft has come under scrutiny from Democratic lawmakers since he accepted a no-bid contract to oversee the operations of an Indiana medical equipment company which is accused of giving kickbacks to doctors. He was chosen by U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie of New Jersey, a Republican who once worked for Ashcroft.
“There is not a conflict,” Ashcroft said. “There is not an appearance of conflict.”
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