According to Recode the democratic lawmakers are planning to question President Donald Trump’s nominee on his past ties to corporate giants like AT&T.
Makan Delrahim Trump’s selection for the post, previously spent years working at a Washington, DC, where his legal and lobbying clients included such companies as AT&T, Comcast, Google and Qualcomm, according to federal records.
According to Recode over the last years Delrahim has cut his ties with many of those companies, including AT&T, which he stopped representing in 2008. Soon after cutting his ties with Qualcomm, Delrahim officially joined the White House as one of Trump’s top legal aides.
Recently Delrahim’s previous work has triggered renewed scrutiny as he seeks to lead antitrust at the Justice Department, a gig that requires confirmation by the US Senate. The top Democrat on the chamber’s leading antitrust committee, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, said in a statement to Recode that she would push Delrahim to sit out of investigations that overlap with his past clients.
During his testimony, Klobuchar said she would “ask [Delrahim] if he will recuse himself from matters related to his prior employment, as required.
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