Gonzales Deputy’s Got Job Feelers OutSo says The Wall Street Journal: “With Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on the ropes over the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, his deputy, Paul J. McNulty, is quietly testing the waters for a new job.”
It’s not the first time that McNulty has been rumored to be on the way out. The Politico’s Mike Allen reported last month that McNulty would be getting the hatchet. That, of course, didn’t happen.
This time it’s McNulty’s choice, his friends say — but it has nothing to do with his giving false statements to Congress (for which he’s blamed Kyle Sampson and Monica Goodling), or the fact that he was at the center of the U.S. attorney purge. No. He just wants to cash in:
Even before the controversy erupted, Mr. McNulty, 49 years old, had been making plans to join the private sector after 24 years in government, which included a term as U.S. attorney in Virginia’s Eastern District, people familiar with his plans said. Knowing he would like to take a higher-paying job, partly to cover tuition for his four college-age children, well before the end of the administration, his friends recently have sent out feelers on his behalf for possible corporate and law-firm jobs, the people said.
