The man who could one day supervise special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation received an ethics waiver from the Trump administration in April, a watchdog has found.

Noel Francisco, a longtime conservative lawyer who is the U.S. solicitor general, is next in line to oversee Mueller’s team if Deputy Attorney Rod Rosenstein were to be fired or resign.

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