By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Joseph L. Perritte, a retired FBI agent who ended his 30-plus year career as crypto systems unit chief of the electronics section of the FBI Laboratory, died late last month in Bethesda, Md., of prostrate cancer at age 88, the Washington Post reported. Perritte, a resident of Silver Spring,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Michael Morehart, the FBI’s deputy assistant director of the Security Division at headquarters, is moving down the road to take over as special agent in charge of the Richmond division. Morehart started as an agent in October 1986, and was first assigned to the Columbia, S.C., bureau before going…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Pamela L. Dempsey, 52, who had worked for the Justice Department as a federal prosecutor since 1986, died earlier this month in Washington from leukemia, the Washington Post reported. Her most recent position at Justice was deputy chief of the asset forfeiture and money laundering section, the paper reported….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Allan Kornblum, 71, a Florida federal magistrate, an ex-FBI agent who worked on civil rights cases in the 1960s, and a Justice Department official credited with writing key passages of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), died last week of cancer in Gainesville, Fla., the Washington Post reported. Kornblum,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Chalk up three more confirmations of U.S. Attorneys around the country. The news website Main Justice reports that the Senate on Thursday confirmed Ron Machen for the District of Columbia; Andre Birotte Jr. for the Central District of California and Richard Hartunian for the Northern District of New York….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Assistant U.S. Attorney Angel Moreno, who is based in Laredo, Tex., is the new acting U.S. Attorney for the Houston division, the Houston Chronicle reports. The federal judges in the Southern District of Texas voted to appoint Moreno to the position, the Chronicle reported. President Obama has yet to name anyone…
Sen. Charles Schumer By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Daniel Alter, a former N.Y. assistant U.S. Attorney who served on the prosecution team in the 1998 African embassy bombings, could become the first openly gay federal judge. New York Sen. Charles Schumer has sent the White House a recommendation nominating the Yale Law School graduate…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON – President Obama nominated Timothy Purdon for the U.S. Attorney post in North Dakota, and David Fein for Connecticut. The President decided to pass on selecting Connecticut’s acting U.S. Attorney Nora Dannehy,who had been appointed in 2008 to lead the probe into the controversial U.S. Attorney firings around the country…
