Biden Nominates Former DOJ Official to Export Enforcement Post
President Joe Biden will nominate Matthew Axelrod, a former Justice Department official, to be the Commerce Department’s assistant secretary for export enforcement, the White House said Aug. 18. The White House described Axelrod as a “longtime public servant with deep…
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criminal and national security enforcement experience,” citing his time as the principal associate deputy attorney general during the Obama administration. Axelrod had also previously spent more than a decade as a federal prosecutor. He is currently part of the Office of the White House Counsel, where he serves as special counsel on domestic and national security matters.