Cybersecurity
Eric Holder’s Job Prospects Were Too Big to Fail
The former attorney general is giving his critics a new round of ammunition by returning to Covington & Burling, whose corporate clientele has included Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.
Attorney General Eric Holder delivers remarks about the Justice Department's findings related to two investigations in Ferguson, Missouri, at the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building March 4, 2015 in Washington, DC.
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This is an excerpt from Bloomberg's daily Opening Line column.
The day Eric Holder became U.S. attorney general—Feb. 3, 2009—a front-page story in the New York Times declared, “Wall St., a Financial Epithet, Stirs Outrage and Punch Lines.” Bloomberg headlined a story, “FDIC Boosts Estimate for U.S. Bank Failures Costs.”