By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The U.S. Senate on Friday confirmed Stephanie Finley for the U.S. Attorney post for the Western District of Louisiana and Laura Duffy for the top federal prosecutor post in the Southern District of California. Duffy had been recommended by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), the San Diego Union reported. The website Main…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — President Obama continued to press forward Thursday in his effort to put his appointees in key jobs by nominating U.S. Attorneys for West Virginia and Wisconsin. The President nominated William J. Ihlenfeld, II, for the U.S. Attorney post in the Northern District of West Virginia and John William Vaudreuil…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Last November, the Baltimore FBI office was named after Sam Hicks, a slain Pittsburgh FBI agent who had worked as a Baltimore cop. Now his name lives on in a piece of national legislation. The House on Tuesday passed a bill named after Hicks that will allow federal law…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Warren Bamford, a well-respected figure in the FBI who heads the Boston office, will retire next month after 24 years with the agency to take a job with a private utility, the Boston Globe reported. Gail Marcinkiewicz, a spokeswoman for the Boston FBI, told the Globe Bamford’s last day will be…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Retired FBI agent Cornelius “Neil” Sullivan, who was the section chief of the intelligence division and was credited with fostering improved relations with the CIA, died earlier this month in Silver Spring, Md. at age 84, the Washington Post reported. Sullivan joined the FBI in 1951 and served in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — As predicted, President Obama nominated attorney James M. Cole as deputy attorney general Friday, filling the number two spot left vacant by the resignation of David Ogden, who stepped down after less than a year, the Washington Post reported. Ogden and Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. did not get…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — President Obama nominated two more U.S. Attorneys on Thursday, this time for Pittsburgh and Knoxville, Tenn. The nominees are: Private attorneys David J. Hickton for the Pittsburgh post and William C. Killian for Knoxville, according to a White House press release. Hickton replaces the controversial Bush-appointed Mary Beth Buchanan,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Channing Phillips, the number two person in the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office, is heading off to the Justice Department several blocks away to become Deputy Associate Attorney General for Diversity Management. A Justice Department memo announcing the move said Phillips will be responsible for the implementation of Attorney General…
