Attorney General John Ashcroft should have declined to participate in the Microsoft case as he did with the Enron investigation, the House Judiciary Committee's top Democrat said Thursday.
In a letter to Ashcroft, Rep. John Conyers said Microsoft's contributions to Ashcroft's Senate campaign — $20,000 in Ashcroft's failed 2000 bid alone — "cast even further doubt on the administration's actions" in the antitrust case.
Ashcroft disqualified himself from the Enron investigation because he received donations for his Senate bid in 2000 from the energy trading company. Justice's entire Houston office also has bowed out.
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