AUSAs David Devillers and Kevin Kelly Get Award
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…
FBI Office Manager Julie Fidler To Get Director Award
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…
LEO Adds Four Liaison Specialists
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);…
Zalmai Azmi To Retire From FBI
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…
Death: Legendary Federal Judge Harold “Barefoot” Sanders.
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…