Here's what we know about Robert Hur, the man appointed as special counsel to investigate after classified documents were found in President Biden's house and office
Earlier he was the principal associate deputy attorney general under Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein from 2017 to 2018 and an assistant U.S. attorney in the District of Maryland from 2007 to 2014. There he prosecuted crimes from gang violence and firearms offenses to financial and mortgage fraud and public corruption.`
He was special assistant and then counsel to Christopher Wray, now FBI director but at the time assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, where Hur handled counterterrorism and corporate fraud.Hur was a member of Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan's special council on gangs and violent criminal networks and headed the governor's Asian-American Hate Crimes Workgroup.
He received his law degree from Stanford Law School and his undergraduate degree from Harvard University. He studied at King's College in Cambridge in the United Kingdom.He was a law clerk for Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist.
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