By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com No surprise here. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif), head of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, isn’t sad to see the resignation of Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, who heads the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Lanny Breuer’s resignation is long overdue,” Issa said in a press release issued late last week. “Breuer…
Steve Neavling Ticklethewire.com April Brooks, the new head of the FBI’s criminal division in New York, seems to have done it all. The first woman to run New York’s criminal division, the 45-year-old helped track down sex offenders and murders, crack down on dangerous gangs and go after corrupt officials, Reuters reports. “This is just…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com John M. Dowdy Jr., who has been the acting first assistant U.S. Attorney for the past year, is now the court-appointed U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. He replaces Donald R. Burkhalter, who retired this month. Dowdy was appointed by Chief U.S. District Judge…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Native New Yorker Diego Rodriguez is leaving the mothership at FBI headquarters to return home as special agent in charge of the criminal division in New York, the agency announced Thursday. Rodriguez, the section chief of the Domain and Collection Management Section in the Directorate of Intelligence at FBI…
