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Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced the appointment of Richard P. Donoghue as Interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 546, which provides that the Attorney General may appoint a United States Attorney for the district in which the office of United States Attorney is vacant. This appointment will take effect on January 5, 2018.
When I became Attorney General, President Trump gave me clear orders to go after MS-13, stated United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Since then, this Department of Justice has been relentless, arresting hundreds of MS-13 members from Los Angeles to Long Island. Today, I am appointing someone as Interim United States Attorney for Eastern District of New York who has tremendous experience prosecuting MS-13: Richard Donoghue. As a federal prosecutor for more than a decadeincluding as Criminal Chief of that officehe has been involved in the prosecution of gang members, terrorists, and corrupt public officials. Every MS-13 member in Long Island should know, Richard Donoghue will use all the tools at his disposal to get criminals off our streets.
Mr. Donoghue is currently the Chief Litigation Counsel for CA Technologies, where he oversees the companys litigation matters worldwide.
CA Technologies, formerly known as Computer Associates International, Inc. and CA, Inc., is an American multinational publicly held corporation headquartered in New York City. It ranks as one of the largest independent software corporations in the world. The company creates systems software (and previously applications software) that runs in mainframe, distributed computing, virtual machine and cloud computing environments
>>This appointment will take effect on January 5, 2018.
Why so long and what happens in the meantime?