time as a trial attorney. what is his reputation at the d.o.j.? what should we know about him? he was the chief of the public integrity section where i worked as a trial attorney. we didn t overlap. i met him many times. people who work in that section are stead fastly apolitical. but there s also a reason that we wanted to be public corruption prosecutors. those prosecutors have a bad attitude of government officials who don t follow the rules. and yak is a prosecutor s prosecutor. has been trying criminal cases for 0 years. he won two big public corruption cases. one against the former governor of virginia, who by the way was a democrat. and another case against a republican congressman from arizona. i will say that public integrity prosecutors decline more cases than they bring. the justice department standard is you don t prosecute unless you think you can get 12 jurors