According to Newsweek, Barr even has conflicts of interest involving the Russians, with the magazine noting that “Barr’s previous employers are connected to key subjects in the [special counsel’s] probe … [and] his financial ties to companies linked to aspects of the Russia investigation raise questions about whether he should—like his predecessor, Jeff Sessions—recuse himself.”43 The media outlet references, in particular, a “public financial disclosure report [in which Barr] admits to working for a law firm that represented Russia’s Alfa Bank and for a company whose co-founders allegedly
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