Healey investigation tied to Trump cabinet pick
Attorney General Maura Healey's investigation into ExxonMobil could pop up as the company's head tries to win confirmation to a Cabinet post, Healey suggested Friday.
President-elect Donald Trump this week announced Exxon chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson as his pick for secretary of state.
"I say to Rex Tillerson and I say to Exxon, nobody's above the law. Answer our questions," Healey told CNN's Carol Costello in a televised interview. "Whether that happens now in a confirmation hearing or whether it happens by them simply doing what they should be doing and answering our questions, providing us with the documents, I hope they come forward. I hope they come clean on this."
Exxon is suing Healey in both Suffolk Superior Court and a Texas federal court over her probe into whether the company misrepresented the impacts of its products on the environment. Healey described the suit as an effort "to shut down and cut off questions from being asked."
A Democrat who campaigned for Hillary Clinton, Healey has been sharply critical of Trump and the appointments he has announced so far.
"The people he has nominated to head any number of the various departments are people who have spent much of their careers trying to dismantle the very departments that they're now slated to head," Healey said Friday.
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