Mob, Terror Prosecutor Touted for Chicago Post
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From Times Wire Reports
A federal prosecutor who has won convictions against members of New York’s Gambino organized-crime family and the World Trade Center bombers was recommended for the post of U.S. attorney in Chicago.
Patrick J. Fitzgerald, 40, was recommended to President Bush by Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (R-Ill.), who is not related to the prosecutor. If nominated by Bush and confirmed by the Senate, Fitzgerald would succeed Scott Lassar.
He is a prosecutor in the case of four men accused of the deadly 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
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