The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to consider another U.S. Attorney nominee at its meeting Thursday.
Michael C. Ormsby (K&L Gates LLP)
U.S. Attorney nominee Michael C. Ormsby of the Eastern District of Washington would replace James A. McDevitt, who became U.S. Attorney in 2001. Ormsby, who was nominated on March 2, is a partner at the law firm of K&L Gates LLP in Spokane, Wash. Read more about him here.
The committee will also vote on U.S. Attorney nominee Mark Green of the Eastern District of Oklahoma at its meeting Thursday.
The panel has yet to schedule votes for another four would-be U.S. Attorneys. The committee has approved 70 of President Barack Obama’s U.S. Attorney nominees, 66 of whom have won Senate confirmation. There are 93 U.S. Attorney posts.
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Joseph Persichini Jr., the former head of the FBI’s Washington, D.C. office who retired last year amid a cheating scandal, is now the Executive Director of the Washington D.C. Police Foundation.
Joseph Persichini Jr. (FBI)
A George W. Bush U.S. Attorney who is the Republican nominee for a House seat in northeast Pennsylvania now says he did not obtain written permission from the Justice Department to be a business reference for a man who federal prosecutors were investigating.
Tom Marino (Tom Marino for Congress)
Former U.S. Attorney Tom Marino of the Middle District of Pennsylvania told The Daily Item, a newspaper in Sunbury, Pa., that he did not request authorization from the DOJ to be a business reference for Louis DeNaples, who sought a casino license. Marino told a radio station in April that the DOJ permitted him to be a reference for DeNaples.
Marino told The Daily Item that there was an understanding that he could be a business reference for anyone as long as he didn’t promote his staffers or use his job title. He told the news website he allowed people to use him as business references “all the time.”
Rep. Chris Carney (D-Pa.), who is running against Marino, has made the former U.S. Attorney’s business reference a major campaign issue.
Attorney General Eric Holder’s former Deputy Chief of Staff, Jim Garland, is set to return to Covington & Burling LLP this week.
Garland announced in August that he would be leaving the Justice Department to return to private practice.
At the Justice Department, Garland handled antitrust issues, state and local law enforcement, and all criminal matters not related to national security. He served as the Attorney General’s point man for the department response to the economic crisis, advised Holder about when the federal government should seek the death penalty, and worked on the newly created Intellectual Property Enforcement Task Force.
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Jacqueline C. Wolff, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in New Jersey, will join Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP in New York, the firm said in a release.
Wolff, formerly of counsel at Covington & Burling LLP, served in the Fraud Division of the New Jersey U.S. Attorney’s office from 1984 to 1988. She also served as chief of the Environmental Crimes Unit.
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Nancy L. Caplinger, a Kansas Court of Appeals judge and former Assistant U.S. Attorney, has been nominated to fill a vacancy on the Kansas Supreme Court, The Capital-Journal reported Tuesday.
Caplinger served as a federal prosecutor from 1995 until her nomination to the appeals court in 2004. During her time at the U.S. Attorney’s office, she served as head of its appellate division.
