Impeachment Lawyers: Mob Buster vs. GOP Veteran Counsel
The public impeachment inquiry hearings set to begin Wednesday will pit a Democratic attorney who built his reputation as a federal mob and securities fraud prosecutor against a GOP House Oversight investigator who helped steer some of the most notable probes of the Obama administration, the Associated Press reports.
For the Democrats, Daniel Goldman will lead the questioning of witnesses. The Washington Post reports that Goldman “made his bones as a prosecutor by sending mobsters, stock swindlers and a multimillion-dollar insider trader to prison, cases in which colleagues said he mixed brains and ‘swagger’ to win convictions.”
Steve Castor, House Intelligence Committee counsel for the minority, will ask questions on behalf of the GOP. “Castor was brought over from the House Oversight Committee by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who recently joined the Intelligence Committee,” reports Fox News.