Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, regarded as the gold standard for U.S. Attorneys, plans to personally prosecute two men accused of being part of the 2008 bombings in Mumbai, India that killed 170 people, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
The paper reported that Fitzgerald has personally prosecuted only one case in Chicago since arriving in 2001 from New York.
Fitzgerald had prosecuted terrorism cases in New York and was named a special prosecutor in Washington in the leak case of CIA operative Valerie Plame, which resulted in the conviction in 2007 of Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff Scooter Libby.
In Chicago, Fitzgerald will join assistant U.S. Attorneys Daniel Collins and Vicki Peters in prosecuting the Mumbai bombing defendants Tahawwur Rana and David Headley, the paper reported.
