jeff sessions: Whitaker was appointed acting attorney general on Wednesday afternoon after the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, was fired by Trump, according to The Guardian. Play Video 0 39 Jeff Sessions has left the building - video Court filings in the case against World Patent Marketing show that Whitaker received regular payments of 1,875 from the Florida-based company, and sent a threatening email to a victim of the alleged scam. Matthew Whitaker was paid to sit on the advisory board of World Patent Marketing, which was ordered in May this year to pay a 26m settlement following legal action by federal authorities, which said it tricked aspiring inventors. Whitaker publicly vouched for the company, claiming in a December 2014 statement that they go beyond making statements about doing business ethically' and translate those words into action . What does Jeff Sessions' firing mean for Mueller and the Trump-Russia inquiry Read more Whitaker, a former US attorney for the southern district of Iowa, said at the time I would only align myself with a first-class organization. World Patent Marketing and its founder, Scott Cooper, were sued by the Federal Trade Commission in March last year. Whitaker's role in the alleged scam was first reported by the Miami New Times in August 2017, shortly before he joined the Trump administration as a senior aide to Sessions.
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