Will Levi spent the last two years helping William Barr navigate several hot-button issues at the center of Trump’s campaign against the “deep state.” Now he's been named as the attorney general's chief of staff.
Attorney General William Barr has named Will Levi as his new chief of staff, according to two Justice Department officials familiar with the matter.
As chief of staff, Levi will work closely with Barr and other senior DOJ officials to manage the department’s day-to-day affairs. He will also regularly interact with the White House counsel’s office. Levi, who started his new role on Monday, replaces Brian Rabbitt, who is taking a senior role in the DOJ's criminal division. The move had been in the works for some time, as Rabbitt had wanted to move back into issues he had worked on previously in the government and private sector.
Levi is a third-generation DOJ official. His father, David Levi, who was a U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of California under President Ronald Reagan, briefly worked with Barr during Barr's first stint as a senior DOJ official. And Levi’s grandfather, Edward Levi, served as attorney general under President Gerald Ford, pushing through major reforms at the department after the Watergate scandal eroded the country’s faith in government.
“He was immensely helpful, and I was deeply impressed by his brilliant work, his diligence and his deep dedication to public service and the rule of law,” Alito told POLITICO in a statement.
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