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Newsbrief:
Bush
to
Nominate
Woman
Prosecutor
to
Head
DEA
3/28/03
The White House announced
on March 21 that President Bush will nominate Karen P. Tandy, head of the
Justice Department's Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, to head
the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). If approved, Tandy would
replace acting DEA head John B. Brown III, a DEA administrator tapped to
sit-in as agency head in January after former DEA chief Asa Hutchinson
resigned to become Undersecretary for Border and Transportation Security
at the Department of Homeland Security.
The Organized Crime Drug
Enforcement task force takes credit for prosecuting more than 44,000 people
and seizing more than $3 billion in cash and goods from suspects since
its inception in 1982.
Tandy, who, if confirmed,
would be the first woman to head the drug-fighting agency, is a long-time
prosecutor who has previously served as chief of litigation for the Justice
Department's asset forfeiture program and as deputy chief for narcotics
and dangerous drugs. She is currently a Deputy Associate Attorney
General.
Tandy also has experience
as an Assistant US Attorney in Virginia and Washington state, where she
prosecuted drug, money laundering and asset forfeiture cases. She
has also worked closely with the DEA, most recently in investigating a
widely publicized pseudoephedrine smuggling operation operating between
Canada and the US. Last year, the DEA's Detroit field office gave
her a crystal plaque recognizing her "significant contributions and support."
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Issue #280, 3/28/03
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