Justice Department Memo Says Whitaker Appointment Is Legal

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Apparently, there's bigger problems for him...

The Acting Attorney General Helped an Alleged Scam Company Hawk Bizarre Products
Last week, President Donald Trump named Whitaker acting attorney general, with oversight of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, after ousting Attorney General Jeff Sessions, for whom Whitaker had worked as chief of staff. Since his appointment, Whitaker’s background has come under intense scrutiny. Reporters combing through his past radio and TV punditry discovered that he had made many statements that called into question his ability to oversee the Mueller probe impartially. Whitaker’s association with World Patent Marketing, which charged would-be inventors large fees to supposedly help them promote their products, also stood out on his resume.


The special toilet was not the firm’s only notable offering. It marketed a slew of oddball inventions, including a “theoretical time travel commodity tied directly to price of Bitcoin.” Called Time Travel X and marketed as “a technology, an investment vehicle and a community of users,” the cryptocurrency never materialized. The firm also pitched Sasquatch dolls, promoting them with a video claiming that “DNA evidence collected in 2013 proves that Bigfoot does exist.”

The acting attorney general helped an alleged scam company hawk bizarre products

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Federal authorities say World Patent Marketing was scam. A federal judge shut down the company last year and fined it $26 million after the Federal Trade Commission found it had “bilked thousands of consumers out of millions of dollars” in fees it charged clients based on phony promises of lucrative patent deals. The company is under investigation by the FBI, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The company’s advisory board, which included a former presidential candidate in the Central Africa Republic and an Israeli-born mixed martial artist, gave it a patina of legitimacy. And between 2014 and 2016, as World Patent Marketing was hawking an array of dubious products and allegedly fleecing aspiring inventors, the company paid Whitaker at least $9,375. Whitaker was no passive board member. He defended the firm against critics, solicited new business, appeared in at least one promotional video for the company, and he seems to have acted at times as outside counsel for the firm. Unlike other advisory board members, he has not returned the payments he received from World Patent Marketing.
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In a December 2014 news release, Whitaker defended the firm. “As a former US Attorney, I would only align myself with a first class organization,” he stated. “World Patent Marketing goes beyond making statements about doing business ‘ethically’ and translate and translate
those words into action.” Whitaker was quoted in another 2014 press release lauding the company’s customer service. In a third release, Whitaker, a former University of Iowa football player, solicited sports-related patent applications. In 2015, he appeared in a video the firm posted touting the design of a razor submitted to the company.

In an August 2015 email, Whitaker invoked his status as a former US attorney to threaten a man who was planning to file a Better Business Bureau complaint against the company. “There could be serious civil and criminal consequences for you,” Whitaker wrote in the email, first reported by the Miami New Times.

About two months later, Cooper referenced what seemed to be the same dispute in a bizarre article included in a company newsletter. Cooper claimed the man was trying to extort and blackmail him with online complaints and asserted that the man had also threatened Whitaker. “The time has come to hit back,” Cooper states in the article, which was later cited in the class action suit. “This guy just bought himself jail time. We have a formidable team here and we are going to hit him with everything we have.”
The acting attorney general helped an alleged scam company hawk bizarre products



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Donald Trump’s new attorney general once said that judges should be Christian and proposed blocking non-religious people from judicial appointments.

Great. We have an acting AG who doesn't like the Constitution.
 
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Justice Department Memo Says Whitaker Appointment Is Legal

We all know that Whitaker was appointed for one reason and one reason only - it has absolutely nothing to do as to whether he actually possesses the necessary skills to manage the Justice Department!

This is another obvious example of "The Donald" placing his own personal needs above those of the nation!
 
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