By Scot J. Paltrow | Reuters – Fri, Jan 20, 2012
(Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer, head of the Justice Department's
criminal division, were partners for years at a Washington law firm
that represented a Who's Who of big banks and other companies at the
center of alleged foreclosure fraud, a Reuters inquiry shows.
The firm, Covington & Burling,
is one of Washington's biggest white shoe law firms. Law professors and
other federal ethics experts said that federal conflict of interest
rules required Holder and Breuer to recuse themselves from any Justice Department decisions relating to law firm clients they personally had done work for.
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