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Related: About this forumPresident Obama expected to nominate Loretta Lynch as attorney general
Washington (CNN) -- Loretta Lynch, the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, is expected to be President Barack Obama's pick for attorney general, U.S. officials briefed on the matter said.
An announcement is expected in the coming days, though the timing is complicated by the president's plans to travel to Asia this weekend.
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/07/politics/new-attorney-general-nominee-loretta-lynch/index.html
An announcement is expected in the coming days, though the timing is complicated by the president's plans to travel to Asia this weekend.
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/07/politics/new-attorney-general-nominee-loretta-lynch/index.html
The fix is in - no one on Wall Street will be prosecuted. Lynch is the only attorney ever to serve on the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and did so precisely during the time frame of the worst excesses of the housing bubble.
http://www.nndb.com/company/073/000125695/
Wall Street always wins.
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President Obama expected to nominate Loretta Lynch as attorney general (Original Post)
Man from Pickens
Nov 2014
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dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)1. Unfortunate last name.
[font style=color:#FF0000;]I am currently experiencing life at several WTFs per hour.[/font]
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)2. Will she be singing Coal Miner's Daughter?
I kid! I kid!
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)3. Did we expect anything better?
westerebus
(2,976 posts)4. Will the new Senate confirm?
I'm thinking this is the canary in the coal mine.
Cynicism is a lost art form over due to return.
Man from Pickens
(1,713 posts)5. I bet they will
She is 100% Grade-A Wall Street Approved
They will confirm her to show how "bipartisan" and "compromising" they are.
westerebus
(2,976 posts)6. Then it's all down "hill" from there.
It's a poor pun, but, lowering expectations is the new GOTV campaign. You heard it first. ha