Prosecutor in anthrax, Blackwater cases resigns

[babylonsister]

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Prosecutor in anthrax, Blackwater cases resigns


WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal prosecutor who became the public face of the Justice Department's investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks, the killing of Chandra Levy and the Blackwater Worldwide shooting is resigning.

Washington U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Taylor, a holdover from the Bush administration, will leave the Justice Department on Friday. He will join the auditing firm Ernst & Young, where he will lead their fraud investigation practice.

Taylor inherited the anthrax and Chandra Levy investigations and declared both long-unsolved matters closed.

The Justice Department declared that Army scientist Bruce Ivins was responsible for the anthrax mailings that killed five people in 2001. Ivins killed himself before he could be indicted.

Taylor, 44, recently announced murder charges against 27-year-old Ingmar Guandique in the Levy case.

Taylor also announced manslaughter charges against Blackwater security contractors involved in the deadly 2007 shooting of Iraqi civilians. The case involved the unprecedented question of whether overseas State Department contractors could be charged in the U.S.

Taylor previously served as counselor to Attorney Generals John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales. He has also served as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee and as a line prosecutor in San Diego.

Taylor took the top job in Washington on an interim basis in 2006 and, though the Senate never acted on his nomination, federal judges in Washington unanimously voted to extend his tenure.

President Barack Obama will nominate Taylor's replacement. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington's nonvoting representative to the House, is conducting a public search for someone to recommend to the president.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Kark Rove's mini me, was Taylor.

They put him in the DC Attorney office to protect the Bush WH in case any prosecutions were attempted on Bush.
I remember reading his puffed up resume on the DOJ page, back in mid-2006 when the Attorney Gate adventures were starting. Taylor claimed fame as "serving" in Iraq when in fact he spent 4 whole months in Baghdad in the Judge Advocates office.
I can't believe he stayed this long in his cushy job.

Now to get rid of the rest of the "Left Behinds".

[babylonsister]

2. Dare we hope for an honest prosecutor? And

those 'left behinds' are worrisome. Why isn't there a way to make them all resign?