By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
WASHINGTON — Richard A. McFeely, who has a law degree and was the FBI’s deputy assistant director of the Finance Division, has been named special agent in charge of the bureau’s Baltimore Division.
McFeely replaces Amy Jo Lyons, who was recently named assistant director of the Inspection Division at FBI headquarters.
McFeely joined the FBI in 1990 and was first assigned to the Buffalo office, where he worked violent crimes and street gangs, the agency said.
In 1995, he served as the lead case agent in the Buffalo office. Bomber Tim McVeigh was from New York.
In 1997, he was named a supervisory special agent in the Latin American Unit of the FBI’s criminal division and in 1998 he was detailed to the Executive Office of the President, Office of National Drug Control Policy.
In 1999, he went to the Washington Field Office and later supervised a counterterrorism squad. In 2005, he was named an assistant special agent in charge in that office.
McFeely went to headquarters the next year as a section chief in the Criminal Investigative Division and in 2007 became the FBI’s budget officer. The following year he was named deputy assistant director of the Finance Division.
He earned a law degree from Delaware Law School in 1989.
