The presiding judge in the criminal case against a suspected ringleader of the attack on an American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, disclosed his wife’s former ties to the U.S. Department of Justice during a hearing on Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge Christopher “Casey” Cooper’s wife is Amy Jeffress, who supervised the national security section of the U.S. Attorney’s office in Washington before leaving the position in 2008. Cooper, confirmed to the federal court in Washington in March, said he didn’t think his wife’s Justice Department connections posed any conflict, but he wanted to put the information on the record.
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