Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
A defense lawyer whose expertise is white-collar crime was nominated Tuesday to be assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s criminal division, the New York Times reports.
President Obama nominated Leslie R. Caldwell, a former federal prosecutor who worked in the Northern District of California and the Eastern District of New York.
Caldwell served as director of the DOJ’s task force that specialized in Enron’s 2001 collapse, the Times wrote.
She graduated from Penn State University and George Washington University law School.
