President Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is facing ethics questions about his work for a client during the Mark Foley congressional page sex scandal.Critics of Steve Dettelbach have questioned his decision to take the gig — in which he curtailed questioning of his client by House investigators — and say his work may have violated congressional rules on gifts.Dettelbach, whose Senate confirmation hearing is Wednesday, represented Patrick Baugh, an aide for then-Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.), who knew of an inappropriate interaction between Foley and a page five years before the Florida congressman’s misconduct publicly surfaced in 2006.
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