Posted on 01/21/2025 5:50:32 PM PST by bitt
John J. Durham has begun serving as Interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York as per the authority of Acting United States Attorney General James R. McHenry III. Mr. Durham was sworn in on Tuesday, January 21, 2025 by United States District Judge Joanna Seybert. He will serve as Interim United States Attorney for a period of 120 days or until a Presidential nominee has been confirmed by the Senate. Mr. Durham has served as Chief of the Long Island Division and Chief of the Criminal Section of the Long Island Division since June 2024 to the present.
“As someone who has served this Office for nearly 20 years, it is truly an honor to be appointed as Interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York,” stated John J. Durham. “Our mission remains steadfast and vital: to combat the greatest threats to this district – from violent crime, terrorism and drug trafficking to cybercrime, corruption, white-collar fraud and civil litigation – uphold the rule of law and pursue justice. I, along with my team of dedicated public servants in this great Office will never waver in our mission to protect the over eight million residents of this district, and the nation at large.”
Mr. Durham joined the Office in October 2005 and has served in the General Crimes and Long Island Criminal Sections. He has been appointed to several leadership positions in the Office and the Department of Justice, including Deputy Chief for the Long Island Criminal Section, the Office’s Capital Case Coordinator, the Attorney General’s Review Committee on Capital Cases and Chair of the MS-13 Subcommittee of the Attorney General’s Transnational Organized Crime Task Force. In August 2019, Mr. Durham was appointed to serve as the Director of Joint Task Force Vulcan (JTFV), a Department of Justice initiative to combat La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), where he spearheaded indictments against MS-13’s highest-ranking international leaders.
During his time in the Office, Mr. Durham has investigated, prosecuted, and supervised a broad range of federal offenses, including racketeering, murders, terrorism, civil rights, obstruction of justice, armed robberies, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, firearms and public corruption. Most significantly, he has directed the Office’s efforts to dismantle the operations of MS-13 in the EDNY, as well as nationally and internationally. In a series of EDNY indictments, he has led teams of AUSAs and investigators that have arrested and convicted hundreds of MS-13 leaders, members and associates on charges related to more than 70 murders committed in this district between January 2008 and the present. ...MORE
John Joseph Durham is the son of John Henry Durham.
This is John J. Durham. He is the one appointed interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York
Not sure about this appointment... good or not???
That last name spooks me.
Thanks for the clarification. Hopefully he’s got more fire in his belly than his old man.
this stuff sounds good to me:
“During his time in the Office, Mr. Durham has investigated, prosecuted, and supervised a broad range of federal offenses, including racketeering, murders, terrorism, civil rights, obstruction of justice, armed robberies, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, firearms and public corruption. Most significantly, he has directed the Office’s efforts to dismantle the operations of MS-13 in the EDNY, as well as nationally and internationally. In a series of EDNY indictments, he has led teams of AUSAs and investigators that have arrested and convicted hundreds of MS-13 leaders, members and associates on charges related to more than 70 murders committed in this district between January 2008 and the present.
As the Director of JTFV, Mr. Durham led a team of prosecutors and law enforcement officers from across the country and secured significant indictments against MS-13’s command and control structure across the United States, Central America and Mexico, including the first use of national security charges against MS-13 leaders. In addition to his work combatting MS-13, Mr. Durham has prosecuted defendants who attempted to travel to Yemen for the purpose of joining al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and fighting jihad against United States allies, and members of numerous other violent criminal organizations, including the Bloods, 18th Street gang, Crips, Salvadorans With Pride and violent narcotics trafficking and robbery crews. In addition to his violent crime work, Mr. Durham has prosecuted several significant and sensitive public corruption and civil rights matters, including cases brought against the former Chief of Department for the Suffolk County Police Department, the former Suffolk County District Attorney and former Chief of Investigations and Chief of the Government Corruption Bureau for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, a then-sitting Nassau County Legislator, a New York City Police Department sergeant and a Food and Drug Administration official.”
nothing about rooting around in Melania’s underwear drawer ...
Still waiting for his report?
Pressure.
It’s the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY who is key. They kept that office out of Trump’s control in his first term because so much money laundering and securities fraud takes place there to benefit the elites, and the Deep State.
He’s the right guy.
Isn’t he a bad guy?
that’s his Dad’s report you’re looking for...
Meanwhile,
Biden DOJ Gives ‘Disgraceful’ Plea Deal to Vicious MS-13 Leader Who Admitted to Involvement in 7 Murders
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com ^ | 1/16/2025 | by Ben Zeisloft, The Western Journal
Posted on 1/16/2025, 11:08:59 PM by bitt
The Justice Department granted a plea deal to a gang leader in MS-13, allowing him to avoid both the death penalty and a life sentence despite his admission to committing seven heinous murders.
Jairo Saenz, 28, known by the nickname “Funny,” will face “up to 60 years in prison, and a minimum sentence of 40 years in prison under the terms of his plea agreement” when he is sentenced, per a Tuesday release from the Justice Department.
Saenz and his brother, Alexi Saenz, led a branch of MS-13 in Suffolk County, New York, known as the Sailors. The pair developed a reputation for brutality....
No
MS-13, also known as Mara Salvatrucha, is a gang primarily made up of Salvadorans that maintains its power, territory and profits through acts of kidnapping, extortion and murder.
One of the most notorious and violent criminal organizations globally, MS-13 originated in the 1980s in Los Angeles, California, formed by refugees fleeing the civil conflict in El Salvador. Since then, the gang has broadened its reach across the United States....
Foreign gangs should be a top priority of the DOJ since Biden opened the terror-gang flood gates. If the DOJ and IRS shift their efforts from persecuting conservatives to prosecuting foreign gangs and terrorist, we could quickly rid ourselves of them. Of course leftist blue cities and states will provide them sanctuary.
He was another one of those special prosecutors who did nothing special Except to not go after deep state criminals.
Make sure you have the right John Durham.
Now they are subject to lead poisoning, a definite risk for such Pardonees.
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