Bloomberg Law
December 11, 2019, 1:13 PM UTC

Wake Up Call: Trump to Pick Jessie Liu for Top Treasury Sanctions Job: Report

Rick Mitchell
Rick Mitchell
Freelance Correspondent
  • President Trump plans to nominate former Morrison & Foerster partner Jessie K. Liu, the current U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, to become the Treasury Department’s undersecretary for terrorism and financial crimes, a report says. Trump earlier this year picked Liu to be the Justice Department’s No. 3 attorney, but she had to withdraw after some Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee complained about her conservative credentials, in particular her membership a decade ago in a women’s group that supported abortion and fought Samuel Alito’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court court. (WaPo)

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