Marc Larkins speaks after Gov. Chris Christie announces his nomination. (gov)
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has named Marc Larkins to be the executive director of the New Jersey School Development Authority Board, according to a news release.
Larkins is an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey who has held a number of positions in the office since he joined in 2003. He has served as Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney, Acting First Assistant U.S. Attorney, Acting Executive U.S. Attorney and council. In addition, he has been the chief of the government fraud unit.
Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s office, Larkins was a trial attorney in the Justice Department’s Civil Division from 1999 to March 2003. Simultaneously, from February 2000 to March 2002, Larkins was Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
Christie, who was U.S. Attorney for New Jersey from 2002-2008, had already named eight of his former colleagues from the U.S. Attorney’s office to serve in his administration. They are:
- Robert Hanna to be the director of the Division of Law in the Attorney General’s office.
- Stephen Taylor to be the director of Criminal Justice in the AG’s office.
- Deborah Gramiccioni to be director of the Authorities Unit in the AG’s office.
- Jeffrey S. Chiesa to be Christie’s chief counsel.
- Kevin M. O’Dowd to be deputy chief counsel.
- Charles McKenna to be head of the state’s Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness.
- Michele Brown to be appointments counsel.
- Lee Solomon to be the president of the board of public utilities.
[...] U.S. Attorney there. She is not the first former colleague Christie has picked out, Main Justice reported. A Republican, she was hired in 1988 by then-U.S. Attorney Samuel Alito, now a U.S. Supreme Court [...]