Monica Krempasky

Where Are They Now? Monica Goodling Working For Ex-Ashcroft Spokesman

Ryan J. Reilly | May 12, 2011, 8:30AM

When news broke that former Bush administration official Monica Goodling had been reprimanded by the Virginia bar for her role in politicizing the Justice Department's hiring and promotion process, a bar official said Goodling was working in market research in Arlington, Va.

A quick Google search for a Monica Goodling working as a flack in Virginia didn't turn up any results, so we figured she was keeping a low profile. But the Washington Post managed to track down Goodling --working under her married name, Monica Krempasky -- at a firm called Corallo Media Strategies under Mark Corallo, her former boss in DOJ's Office of Public Affairs.

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Topics: John Ashcroft, Justice Department, Karl Rove, Monica Goodling, Monica Krempasky, William Hochul

Obama Administration

Obama Promotes Prosecutor Mistreated By Bush DOJ For Wife's Dem Ties

Justin Elliott | December 28, 2009, 9:45AM

A career prosecutor whose promotion to Main Justice was quashed by Monica Goodling during the Bush years has been nominated to be a U.S. Attorney, in President Obama's latest reversal of a politicized decision of the Bush Justice Department.

William Hochul, who has been an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York for nearly 20 years, was nominated to be the U.S. Attorney there last week after a recommendation from Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

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Topics: Chuck Schumer, Daniel Bogden, Justice Department, Monica Goodling, Obama Administration, William Hochul