Trump's Crime-Enforcer Pick Meets Senate Fire Over Alfa Bank

President Donald Trump’s nominee to oversee federal criminal investigations hit a headwind with Democratic senators over his work earlier this year for a Russian bank scrutinized for possible ties to Trump’s campaign.

Brian Benczkowski, a partner at Kirkland & Ellis in Washington, disclosed to senators this month that he had represented Moscow-based Alfa Bank. The job, he told a Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday, was to supervise an internal bank investigation into traffic on the bank’s computer system as well as advise the bank on its response to the publication of an intelligence dossier linking the bank to the Trump campaign.