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The Stanford Daily
March 8, 2018
Lam became the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California after serving San Diego as a Superior Court judge. ... Correction: A prior version of this article incorrectly stated that Carol Lam was the U.S. Attorney for the district of Southern California, when in fact she was the U.S. Attorney for theÃâà...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
September 17, 2017
The Trump Administration has named 42 U.S. attorney nominees so far, but the lead federal prosecutor job in San Diego remains up for grabs as ... Santa Fe venture capitalist and well-connected Republican Gerald Parsky leading a local bipartisan committee, took more than a year to nominate Carol Lam.
KVIA El Paso
April 14, 2017
Carol Lam, who was named U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California in 2002 by President George W. Bush and forced to resign nearly five years later, prosecuted fewer immigrant smuggling cases and turned limited resources on "the most dangerous offenders," according to a report by the U.S.Ãâà...
New York Times
January 27, 2017
The attorney general-designate, Jeff Sessions, who unsuccessfully prosecuted black voting rights activists as a United States attorney in Alabama three decades ago, had his confirmation hearing before Mr. Trump's Twitter eruption. He now should pledge to refrain from politicizing voting rights enforcementÃâà...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
March 27, 2015
Speculation emerged last week that the Bush administration allegedly has asked San Diego-based U.S. Attorney Carol Lam, the region's chief federal prosecutor, to step down. Last year, successfully prosecuted U.S. Rep. Randy Duke Cunningham and in December secured the convictions of executivesÃâà...
Daily Kos
May 19, 2013
With Washington engulfed in scandals real and imagined over the Benghazi tragedy, the IRS' handling of applications by political groups for tax exempt status and the Justice Department's seizure of AP phone records, California Congressman Darrell Issa is enjoying his moment in the sun. For RepublicansÃâà...
Think Progress
December 5, 2008
Mary Beth Buchanan was appointed by President Bush to serve as U.S. attorney in Pittsburgh in Sept. 2001. Buchanan has held several significant posts within the Bush/Ashcroft/Gonzales Justice Department, most notably serving as director the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys. Just last month, theÃâà...
New York Times
November 6, 2004
Democrats in Congress and others have suggested that Ms. Lam, the former United States attorney in San Diego, was ousted largely to stymie her ... “Carol Lam was a person of impeccable integrity,” said Bonnie M. Dumanis, the district attorney in San Diego, who worked closely with Ms. Lam on manyÃâà...
New York Times
November 6, 2004
Carol Lam, the former United States attorney for San Diego, is smart and tireless and was very good at her job. Her investigation of Representative Randy ... period without Senate confirmation. Three theories are emerging for why these well-qualified U.S. attorney were fired — all political, and all disturbing.
