Bill Barr has a few previous employers who are connected to key subjects in the Mueller Report, and these facts didn't get much attention during Barr's confirmation hearing.
Should William Barr recuse himself from Mueller report? Legal experts say AG's ties to Russia are troubling
“The legal standard is really clear about these issues.
"'It’s not about actual conflict,
it’s about the appearance of a conflict, about the appearance of bias,' Jed Shugerman, a professor at Fordham University’s School of Law and an expert on judicial and government ethics, tells
Newsweek . 'The problem is that we have so many flagrant conflicts that are so obvious, we get distracted from what the legal standard is.'
"This much is known: On Barr’s public financial disclosure report, he admits to working for a law firm that represented Russia’s Alfa Bank and for a company whose co-founders allegedly have long-standing business ties to Russia.
"What’s more, he received dividends from Vector Group, a holding company with deep financial ties to Russia."
Perhaps the House Judiciary Committee should hit Barr with another subpoena?