Whitaker Goes From Humdrum Iowa Cases to Trump Attorney General
- Highest-profile work was as Jeff Sessions’ chief of staff
- Trump passed over Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein for job
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Matthew Whitaker’s legal work for most of the past decade consisted of defending run-of-the-mill clients in Iowa: a woman accused of shoplifting, a mid-level drug dealer, a drunk man charged with throwing food at a Kum & Go convenience store window.
Now, he’s the acting U.S. attorney general.