SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) _ Former U.S. District Judge Howard Munson, who presided over trials involving tax protesters and an early Internet hacking case, died Sunday. He was 84. Munson had served on the federal bench for 32 years, retiring this year. For Full Story
By The Washington Post Curtis Allen Fitzgerald, 65, a retired assistant chief in the FBI’s criminal investigations division, died of cancer Sept. 23 at his home in Alexandria. Mr. Fitzgerald, a native of Ripley, Tenn., worked for three years at the Memphis FBI office as a clerk while going to the University of Memphis. On…
COLUMBUS— The National Association of Former U.S. Attorneys has awarded assistant U.S. Attorneys David Devillers and Kevin Kelly the 2008 award for the outstanding single trial in the nation. The two prosecuted Thomas A. Henderson, who murdered to people who provided information that helped convict him of a 1981 bank robbery in Macon, Ga. Macon…
BY Maggie O’Brien Omaha World-Herald Staff Writer OMAHA, Neb – Not many people know what part-time Von Maur employee Julie Fidler did to help authorities in the hours after a 19-year-old gunman walked into the Omaha store last December and killed eight people, then himself. Julie Fidler, 52, who lives in Bellevue, would prefer to…
Law Enforcement Online (LEO) recently added four Liaison support specialists to serve LEO moderators and more than 100,000 members. The job entails providing LEO presentations, initial trainings on site, on site support for command posts with the Virtual Command Center and training for moderators. The new additions include James Sheehan (west coast); Edward Bejarano (south/southeast);…
By Ben Bain Government Leader News Zalmai Azmi, the FBI’s chief information officer who has directed the bureau’s massive information technology upgrade projects for almost five years, announced today that he will be retiring from the government Oct. 17. Azmi, a native of Afghanistan who has spent 24 years working for the federal government, said…
Harold “Barefoot” Sanders, a legendary U.S. District Court judge in Texas, died Sunday in Dallas. He was 83. He worked for the Justice Department and later served as a federal judge for 28 years, overseeing the desegration of Dallas schools. The New York Times reported that he was a few cars behind President Kennedy’s motorcade…
Keith L. Prewitt, a 25-year veteran of the U.S. Secret Service, was recently named deputy director, director Mark Sullivan announced. Prewitt most recently served as assistant director of the Office of Protective Research.
