Sirota: Bush's Top Cop Leaves to Defend Corporate Criminals

From David Sirota:

In my travels Monday, I noticed this little tidbit buried at in the back pages of the Wall Street Journal:

"Christopher A. Wray, chief of the Justice Department's criminal division and a central figure in the government's crackdown on corporate crime, will step down to lead a corporate white-collar crime defense unit at the Atlanta law firm of King & Spaulding."

As a King & Spalding press release brags, corporate clients "will benefit greatly from the experience [Wray] has gathered while at the Justice Department."

How nice. Our nation's top corporate cop will now using his insider knowledge of DoJ to help corporations get off the hook when they commit crimes. In some sense, we shouldn't be surprised, as this is, after all, the Bush administration - a group of people who run the business/government revolving door so fast it is starting to resemble an industrial-strength fan.

Typical.

Remember the Congressman who pushed through that disastrous "Medicare Reform" thing went to work as a lobbyist for PhrMA. There are a slew of these. I hated it when it happened with Bush I's and Clinton's people and I hate it FAR MORE now because it's much more egregious and consistent now.