While Ms. Bondi, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for attorney general, served as attorney general of Florida, her office declined to investigate allegations of fraud against his for-profit school.

The 59-year-old has long been in Trump's orbit and her name had been floated during his first term as a potential candidate for the nation's highest law enforcement role. Trump an

It didn’t take President-elect Donald Trump long to rebound from former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz’s decision not to seek confirmation as attorney general. Hours later, Trump proposed that the job instead go to another resident of his home state, former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi.