U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced on Monday that Bill Baer will serve as acting associate attorney general Jaquiski Tartt Jersey , leaving his position as head of the department's Antitrust Division to take the No. 3 post at the department.
Baer was considered most likely to replace Stuart Delery, the acting associate attorney general, who announced last week that he will leave on April 17.
"From his work at the Federal Trade Commission to his leadership of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division Arik Armstead Jersey , he has demonstrated keen intelligence, strong judgment and consummate skill," Lynch said of Baer in a statement.
Lynch did not say whether the Obama administration would seek to confirm Baer through a Senate nomination process.
As head of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division DeForest Buckner Jersey , Baer oversaw such cases as the scheme by Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays and others to rig the foreign currency exchange spot market as well as the case against Apple for price-fixing e-books Joe Williams Jersey , Lynch said.
The Justice Department declined to comment on who would replace Baer in the Antitrust division.
Hillary Clinton and her high-powered campaign stand-ins are talking about trust everywhere they speak these days, and for good reason.
The FBI is probing her use of a private email server. Husband Bill Clinton met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch in a session both say was innocent but they regret. And the Democratic Party is poised to nominate Clinton for president.
On Sunday's news shows, Sen. Sherrod Brown C.J. Beathard Jersey , R-Ohio, and Labor Secretary Tom Perez explicitly talked about Clinton and trust. And the candidate herself acknowledged that she has "work to do" to earn the trust of voters in her likely general election matchup against Republican Donald Trump, who suffers from a public trust deficit of a different sort Ahkello Witherspoon Jersey , stemming from political inexperience and an impulsive style.
Mr. and Mrs. Clinton
This week, President Barack Obama will personalize the "I trust Hillary" theme during his first appearance with his former secretary of state in battleground North Carolina. And Vice President Joe Biden will reinforce the message Friday in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania Reuben Foster Jersey , with Clinton at his side.
It's all evidence of a remarkable vulnerability that persists both despite and because of Clinton's decades of public life. But the timing of the trust campaign is no accident.
Bill Clinton, the former president, met last Monday with the FBI's boss Solomon Thomas Jersey , Lynch, on the tarmac in Phoenix in a session the drew widespread criticism. The FBI interviewed Clinton for more than three hours on Saturday about whether she exposed government secrets by blending personal and official business on a home email server. Clinton immediately gave a television interview in which she denied wrongdoing and repeated an acknowledgment she had slipped into a speech last week on the same day Sen. Elizabeth Warren vouched for her.
Clinton said she will do "everything I can to earn the trust of the voters of our country," remarks aired Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." ''I know that's something that I'm going to keep working on [url=http:/