Catherine Rampell: Matthew Whitaker has experience advising con artists. Will he help more under Trump?

Washington - Many assume Matthew G. Whitaker was chosen as acting attorney general because he criticized the Russia probe, said he would have indicted Hillary Clinton and otherwise looks like a die-hard Trump loyalist.But maybe Whitaker really was picked because he has experience advising con artists.Whitaker, after all, was involved with a Miami-based firm that federal regulators shut down last year as an alleged scam. The firm, World Patent Marketing, promised aspiring inventors that it would