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A new chapter in the Matthew Whitaker saga: DOJ said in a recent court doc that they realized only weeks before Trump tapped Whitaker as acting AG that no one had reviewed his conflict of interest forms during the year he served as Sessions' chief of staff buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
The head of DOJ's ethics office said she realized in October 2018 that "due to administrative error," the office hadn't screened Whitaker's financial disclosure forms — and when they did, they concluded the information he'd submitted was incomplete buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
(Small correx: quote in that last tweet should be "due to *an* administrative error")
DOJ's filing didn't say what the "administrative error" was, if it was addressed going forward, and if there were other senior DOJ officials whose financial disclosures — forms that are used to check for conflicts of interest — weren't reviewed buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
The filing doesn't say what prompted the ethics office to look at Whitaker's financial disclosures in Oct. 2018, but WaPo reported at the time that Trump had talked to Whitaker about replacing Sessions, see: washingtonpost.com/world/national…
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