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Cool , she has made her bones on some tough cases and is just the person to scare the crap out of the robber baron financial industry. Besides she has the perfect name for an AG!
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama is expected to nominate U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch of New York to become the next U.S. attorney general, CNN reported Friday.
Lynch, 55, a long-time prosecutor, would be the first African-American woman to hold the job if she is nominated and confirmed by the Senate.
Lynch currently serves as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, which covers the borough of Brooklyn, and is thought to be a non-controversial candidate who would be easily confirmed.
She would take the place of outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced in September that he would resign.
A White House spokesman declined to confirm the CNN report, which cited U.S. officials who had been briefed on the matter.
Lynch emerged as a leading contender for the job after a previous top choice, Kathryn Ruemmler, pulled out of consideration amid concerns that her involvement in controversial White House decisions could complicate her confirmation.[id:nL1N0SN00D]
The Greensboro, North Carolina, native, who earned her college and law degrees at Harvard, worked in the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney's office between 1990 and 2001, and has served in the top post there since the beginning of the Obama administration in 2009.
In her first stint at the office she oversaw the prosecution of a New York police officer who sodomized Haitian immigrant Abner Louima, an incident that became a national symbol for police brutality.
In April, Lynch's office indicted Republican U.S. Representative Michael Grimm for fraud. Her office also helped investigate Citigroup Inc over shoddy mortgage securities the bank sold, which led the bank to enter into a $7 billion settlement in July.
Lynch's office also was involved in the December 2012 $1.2 billion accord with HSBC over the bank's lapses in its anti-money laundering controls.
(Reporting by Aruna Viswanatha and Julia Edwards; Editing by Bill Trott)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/07/us-usa-justice-lynch-idUSKBN0IR1RR20141107
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama is expected to nominate U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch of New York to become the next U.S. attorney general, CNN reported Friday.
Lynch, 55, a long-time prosecutor, would be the first African-American woman to hold the job if she is nominated and confirmed by the Senate.
Lynch currently serves as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, which covers the borough of Brooklyn, and is thought to be a non-controversial candidate who would be easily confirmed.
She would take the place of outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced in September that he would resign.
A White House spokesman declined to confirm the CNN report, which cited U.S. officials who had been briefed on the matter.
Lynch emerged as a leading contender for the job after a previous top choice, Kathryn Ruemmler, pulled out of consideration amid concerns that her involvement in controversial White House decisions could complicate her confirmation.[id:nL1N0SN00D]
The Greensboro, North Carolina, native, who earned her college and law degrees at Harvard, worked in the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney's office between 1990 and 2001, and has served in the top post there since the beginning of the Obama administration in 2009.
In her first stint at the office she oversaw the prosecution of a New York police officer who sodomized Haitian immigrant Abner Louima, an incident that became a national symbol for police brutality.
In April, Lynch's office indicted Republican U.S. Representative Michael Grimm for fraud. Her office also helped investigate Citigroup Inc over shoddy mortgage securities the bank sold, which led the bank to enter into a $7 billion settlement in July.
Lynch's office also was involved in the December 2012 $1.2 billion accord with HSBC over the bank's lapses in its anti-money laundering controls.
(Reporting by Aruna Viswanatha and Julia Edwards; Editing by Bill Trott)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/07/us-usa-justice-lynch-idUSKBN0IR1RR20141107
