Bush Taps Tyco Lawyer to No. 2 Justice Post
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President Bush named Timothy E. Flanigan, a senior lawyer for Tyco International Ltd., to be deputy attorney general, the No. 2 position at the Justice Department.
Flanigan has been Tyco’s general counsel for corporate and international law since November 2002. Before that, he was deputy counsel at the White House under Bush.
Flanigan would succeed James Comey, who plans to leave his government post later this year.
Tyco, which has about 250,000 employees and $36 billion in annual revenue, makes electronics and medical supplies and owns the ADT home security business.
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