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.
Born in Philadelphia and raised in Old Greenwich, Conn., she started her career as a federal prosecutor in the southern district of New York, the paper reported.
After her marriage, she converted from Catholicism to Judaism and had a bat mitzvah in 2008, the paper reported.
