From The Daily Caller
A conservative organization filed a bar complaint on Friday against a former Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) official who alleged lobbyists are improperly influencing antitrust enforcement decisions.
Roger Alford, formerly the antitrust division’s second-in-command, was one of two senior officials fired in July amid an internal blowup over a settlement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Juniper Networks that allowed the companies’ merger to continue. Alford publicly criticized several officials driving the deal in August for sacrificing the “rule of law” to the “rule of lobbyists.”
The bar complaint, which alleges Alford improperly “betrayed client confidences” by voicing concerns about internal operations in a speech and op-ed, is the latest development in a battle reportedly taking place behind closed doors in the division.
CASA’s complaint alleges Alford “discarded his obligations as an attorney when he delivered a speech and wrote an op-ed that betrayed client confidences and disadvantaged his former client,” urging the D.C. Bar to investigate.