THREAD Just heard from Deputy Attorney General (& former colleague) Lisa Monaco at the ⁦@ABAesq⁩ Institute on White Collar Crime. Here is what she announced today about corporate criminal enforcement. 1/ She discussed 1) Trends in Crime, 2) Three announcements she is rolling out today in corporate enforcement & 3) Reviews DOJ will undertake to consider additional initiatives.

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THREAD: Back of the envelope thoughts on the FBI raid of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's office: 1/

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This was a referral by Mueller to the FBI & US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, suggesting this is NOT part of Mueller's investigation but rather Mueller obtained evidence relevant to potential crimes outside his scope 2/

THREAD on resources for Steve Bannon’s Executive Privilege dispute with HPSCI:

For caselaw history see p. 946-957 of my law review article Constitutional Conflict & Congressional Oversight: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… 1/ Some @just_security blog posts on the topic of Trump administration informal@moves to block congressional testimony w/o formal assertion of executive privilege or congressional follow-up:

justsecurity.org/50282/year-end…

justsecurity.org/48051/don-jr-s…

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THREAD on Darrell Issa’s retirement, based on my experiences with him as a committee staffer in Congress & an Obama White House lawyer.
There will be grave dancing. 1/

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I served on the Democratic staff of the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform (HOGR) from 2007-2011, where Rep. Issa (R-CA) served 2/