Republicans File Complaint to D.C. Bar on Clinton Lawyer Mills
- Confidante Mills had conflict of interest, GOP official says
- Legal ethics professor says it may not be that clear-cut
Cheryl Mills arrives for a closed-door deposition before the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Sept. 3, 2015, on Capitol Hill.
Photographer: Alex Wong/Getty ImagesOfficials with the Republican National Committee said Monday they lodged a complaint with the District of Columbia Bar against one of Hillary Clinton’s attorneys and closest confidantes, the latest move to raise questions about what the GOP calls a cover-up over Clinton’s private e-mail system.
Raj Shah, the RNC’s research director, said in the complaint that Cheryl Mills violated a D.C. Bar rule by serving as one of Clinton’s attorneys during the FBI’s investigation into whether the former secretary of state and her aides mishandled classified information. Mills, who was chief of staff when Clinton was secretary of state, had also received limited immunity from the FBI as it looked into the server.