Lawyers To Replace Fitzgerald All Were Federal Prosecutors
From the Chicago Sun-Times
All eight candidates who have been interviewed for the daunting job of replacing former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald have experience of working in the office he once led, a list obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times shows.
The list of six men and two women — all of whom once worked as federal prosecutors in Chicago — is being considered by a panel advising U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, according to two sources close to the selection process.
It includes a sitting federal judge, a state inspector general appointed by Gov. Pat Quinn and six lawyers currently in private practice in Chicago — but no true outsiders such as Fitzgerald, who was brought in from New York to lessen potential conflicts of interest.
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From the Chicago Sun-Times
All eight candidates who have been interviewed for the daunting job of replacing former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald have experience of working in the office he once led, a list obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times shows.
The list of six men and two women — all of whom once worked as federal prosecutors in Chicago — is being considered by a panel advising U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, according to two sources close to the selection process.
It includes a sitting federal judge, a state inspector general appointed by Gov. Pat Quinn and six lawyers currently in private practice in Chicago — but no true outsiders such as Fitzgerald, who was brought in from New York to lessen potential conflicts of interest.
Read more in our daily News Update...