The U.S. Justice Department’s tax division finally has a nominee for assistant attorney general, more than three years into the Trump administration.

The White House said Richard Zuckerman, who joined the tax division in December 2017 from Detroit-based firm Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn, would be nominated for the Senate-confirmed assistant attorney general post. Zuckerman has served as principal deputy assistant attorney general, a role that has effectively left him in charge of the tax division in the absence of a Senate-confirmed leader. The Senate last confirmed a tax division leader in 2012.

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