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February 3, 2009

Ex-Chamber of Commerce Lobbyist Considered for Top Justice Post
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President Obama is reportedly considering nominating Mark Gitenstein to
head the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Policy, the department’s
main policymaking unit. Public Citizen has criticized the possible
nomination. The group accuses Gitenstein of having a long record of
championing laws to shield corporations from accountability at the
expense of ordinary Americans. Gitenstein is a former registered
lobbyist for the US Chamber of Commerce. Since the mid-1990s, he has
lobbied for a law that made it more difficult to hold businesses and
their auditing firms liable for false earnings predictions.



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