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The Atlantic
April 13, 2018
That investigation is now being handled by the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York—a regular unit of the Department of Justice. If Mueller were fired, the ongoing pieces of his investigation (into Manafort, Russian social-media interference, etc.) could also get farmed out to various U.S.Ãâà...
New York Times
April 13, 2018
But it was carried out by prosecutors in the public integrity section of the office of the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York. Geoffrey S. Berman, the interim United States attorney, recused himself, so his deputy, Robert S. Khuzami, a former head of enforcement at the Securities andÃâà...
Newsweek
April 7, 2018
Early in O'Callaghan's career, after serving as an assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, he joined Senator John McCain's ... His predecessor in the role, Robert Hur, who left to serve as U.S. attorney for the District of Maryland, wrote in a letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein inÃâà...
Roughly Explained (blog)
April 6, 2018
O'Callaghan's well-regarded work as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he was co-chief of the Counterterrorism and National Security Section from 2005-2008, makes him especially well-suited for this role. O'Callaghan led high-profile prosecutions related to the UnitedÃâà...
CBS News
April 3, 2018
O'Callaghan will replace Robert Hur, who is taking Rosenstein's old job as the U.S. Attorney in the District of Maryland. O'Callaghan's ... Attorney General. His counsel was invaluable over the past ten months and I look forward to seeing him thrive as the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland."Ãâà...
Law360
November 13, 2017
O'Callaghan was on President Donald Trump's transition team for the U.S. Treasury Department and was initially thought to be a candidate to take over the as U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he was a prosecutor in the 1990's. Back then, O'Callaghan co-led the office's nationalÃâà...
Above the Law
August 9, 2017
But even President Trump must cut deals when it comes to judicial and U.S. attorney nominees. That's especially true here in the great state of New York, home to two Democratic senators, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand — one of whom also happens to be Senate Minority Leader (Schumer).
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