Sessions Hires Outside Lawyer Amid Expanding Russia Probes
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has hired longtime friend Charles Cooper to be his personal lawyer amid an expanding investigation by the special counsel overseeing the probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Cooper, chairman of the Washington firm Cooper & Kirk, said in an email he began representing Sessions a few days before the attorney general testified last week in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is conducting its own Russia investigation.