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Feb 22 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
30 Dec 2010

Obama has bypassed Congress to name James M. Cole of Bryan Cave (who works in the Washington office of the prominent St. Louis-based law firm) to the No. 2 position at the Department of Justice.

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Cole, appointed Wednesday, will serve as the top deputy to attorney general Eric Holder, a close friend. Before joining Bryan Cave in 1995, Cole worked as a prosecutor in the DOJ's corruption-busting Public Integrity Section.
While at Bryan Cave, Cole's duties included working as a special independent monitor for the troubled insurance giant AIG, a deal that netted his Metropolitan Square employer more than $20 million, according to the Government Accountability Project.
Earlier, Cole was the lead attorney for a House Ethics Subcommittee on an investigation that eventually lead to a reprimand for then-Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Steele reportedly worked for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska through St. Louis' Bryan Cave law firm.

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