now that he is under investigation by the u.s. attorney in manhattan, an investigation that some members f the william barr justice department did not know about when they had a meeting with rudy giuliani recently. it was a kind of routine meeting that defense lawyers have with prosecutors all the time. rudy giuliani was there as a member of the defense team on an unrelated case. now that everyone in the justice department knows that rudy giuliani is under investigation by the u.s. attorney in new york after that story broke publicly, the justice department had to issue a formal statement of regret that they allowed rudy giuliani in the door while he was under investigation. when assistant attorney general brian bencowski and fraud lawyers met with mr. giuliani, they were not aware of mr. giuliani s associates in the southern district of new york and would not have met with him had they known. donald trump has claimed that he doesn t know the giuliani
what came out in his confirmation hearing yesterday, we now know that brian bencowski after he left the trump transition, he went to work representing a russian bank called alpha bank. alpha bank is linked very closely with vladimir putin. alpha bank featured prominently in a controversy last year concerning unexplained electronic communications during the presidential campaign between computer servers connected to alpha bank and computer servers connected to the trump organization. we learned at benchcowski s hearing this week that his time working at alpha bank is not one long-standing relationship that he now has to explain going back years. he started working for alpha bank this year. after all that controversy about alpha bank in the trump organization during the campaign. he started working for alpha bank after he left the trump transition earlier this year. we also learned that he was still working for alpha bank when the trump administration
and the fight will be between his very, very high-paid lawyers, and the criminal division of the u.s. criminal justice department. and the u.s. criminal justice department until now in this administration has been run by an acting director of that division, left over from the obama administration, then left over from the george w. bush administration before that, career person, but now the trump administration has picked somebody new for that job. running the criminal division of the justice department is a huge deal. it is a huge and important job. the trump administration s pick for that job is brian benchcowski. now, thanks to reporting this week in the new york times and what came out in his confirmation hearing yesterday, we now know that brian bencowski after he left the trump transition, he went to work representing a russian bank called alpha bank. alpha bank is linked very closely with vladimir putin.