From Yahoo:
WASHINGTON - The White House plans to nominate Thomas O'Brien, a career prosecutor, as the new U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, according to a Democratic Senate aide with knowledge of the decision.
The aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision was not yet public, said Tuesday that the announcement was expected this week.
O'Brien had been viewed as the leading candidate for the job. He currently is chief of the office's criminal division and before that worked in the Los Angeles County district attorney's gang division.
O'Brien would fill the vacancy created when Debra Yang resigned last October to go into private practice.
Yang was not among the eight U.S. attorneys whose firings last year have turned into a controversy for the Justice Department and has said she left of her own accord.
O'Brien's appointment would still leave California with two of its four U.S. attorney positions unfilled.
The other vacancies are in San Diego and San Francisco where U.S. attorneys Carol Lam and Kevin Ryan were dumped in the mass dismissals last year.
In San Diego, interim U.S. attorney Karen P. Hewitt could be made permanent.
In San Francisco, attorney Joseph Russoniello appears to be the leading candidate to replace Ryan, according to local press accounts and lawyers familiar with the process. Russoniello, who declined comment, held the same U.S. attorney post under President Ronald Reagan from 1982 to 1990.
The Eastern District in Sacramento is the one district in California that hasn't seen recent turnover. McGregor Scott has been U.S. attorney there since 2003.
Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd declined comment on the report of O'Brien's nomination and said the department was working to find candidates for the vacancies in San Diego and San Francisco.
And who is O'Brien?
O'Brien, a Republican, joined the U.S. attorney's office in October 2000, moving up to chief of the office's civil rights section in February 2005 and chief of the criminal division in June of the same year. During this tenure, he's prosecuted and investigated a range of crimes, including murder, fraud, human trafficking, police misconduct, narcotics, immigration and child exploitation.
He tried 65 cases, including 35 gang murder cases, during his five years as a deputy district attorney assigned to Los Angeles County's hard-core gang division
2 comments:
He's not corrupt, is he? I've read the DOJ did some bad things in the past that I blew off, but now I believe it from that INSLAW and Promis stuff. This country has been heading down the wrong path for decades, I think JFK tried to turn it around and they killed him for it. jmho.
I believe everyone deserves a fair defense but not a corrupted offense to dupe America and the world. It is very sad and depressing for humanity.
The sad thing now is that any Republican chosen by President Cheney must follow his orders. Now even good lawyers can get a bad name joining this corrupt Administration.
Teak with the release of the CIA horror report there's now no question who killed John F. Kennedy. Check the names of the Cuban Mafia that the US paid for assassinations. The tape that showed the smoke from the grassy noel was destroyed by the CIA. Now it is strange that all the journalist who covered JFK as they were young reporters seem to have the White House memory lost. After all these years we now know who Deep Throat is and also who killed President Kennedy. I guess we can now say the United States had it's own COUP.
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