By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — David Schwendiman, a war crimes prosecutor in Bosnia, is expected to get the nomination from President Obama for the U.S. Attorney post in Utah, the Salt Lake Tribune is reporting. Citing political and legal insiders, the paper said Schwendiman will likely replace his former boss U.S. Attorney Brett Tolman…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s official. Defense attroney and former former federal prosecutor Paul J. Fishman is the new U.S. Attorney for New Jersey. The U.S. Senate confirmed his appointment Thursday night, the Newark Star-Ledger reported. Fishman, 52, will replace Ralph J. Marra, who has been acting U.S. Attorney since Chris Christie stepped down to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Wisconsin’s U.S. Senators have have nominated two finalists for the U.S. Attorney post in Madison. Senators Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold have forwarded to the White House the names of Assistant U.S. Attorney John W. Vaudreuil and former Assistant Attorney General Eric J. Wilson, according to the Associated Press. The post…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — President Obama on Friday nominated four U.S. Attorneys including Nicholas Klinefeldt, whose father is in prison. Klinefeldt, the U.S. Attorney nominee for the Southern District of Iowa, has a father serving a 10-year sentence for a methamphetamine conviction. The story of his possible nomination and his father’s problems were…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Michael Moore for U.S. Attorney. What’s this world coming to? Well, it’s not actually the Michael Moore of “Roger and Me” fame, the target of the right. It’s the other Michael Moore, a former Georgia state senator and a former chief assistant district attorney. He is currently a private attorney. President…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A different kind of payday is coming for Shakila Nakia Wallace — and it may be in the form of a prison sentence. Wallace, 25, a former office automation clerk in the U.S. Attorney’s financial litigation unit in Philadelphia, pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court to using personal identification info…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Kansas City Acting U.S. Attorney Matt J. Whitworth has been named a U.S. Magistrate Judge, the U.S. District Court in Western Missouri announced. Whitworth, who became acting U.S. Attorney on March 1, has been a federal prosecutor in the Kansas City office since 1988. He is a 1983 graduate of the…
Simply put: politics ain’t pretty. The current state attorney Angela Corey is trying to derail her ex-boss’s bid to be U.S. Attorney. Corey has apparently written Florida’s two senators discouraging the appointment of ex-boss Harry Shorstein, who once fired her when he was state attorney. Shorstein is one of three candidates being considered for the…
