She replaces Joshua Levy, who stepped down final week.
#BREAKING Assistant U.S. Lawyer Leah B. Foley appointed because the U.S. Lawyer for the District of Massachusetts. A federal prosecutor for 23 years, Ms. Foley brings intensive expertise in prosecuting complicated federal crimes & main DOJ operations.
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Foley has 23 years of expertise as a federal prosecutor, most lately as an assistant U.S. lawyer for the District of Massachusetts and earlier than that as an assistant U.S. lawyer for the District of Columbia.
She joined the Massachusetts workplace in 2006 as an assistant U.S. lawyer within the Felony Division. Earlier than that, she served as deputy chief of the Narcotics & Cash Laundering Unit, the place she supervised worldwide and home drug investigations and worldwide cash laundering, immigration, human trafficking and firearms circumstances. She additionally served because the lead lawyer for Boston’s Organized Crime & Drug Enforcement Job Drive since 2013.
“I can consider no larger mission than that of public service and it’s the honor of a lifetime to now serve within the capability of U.S. Lawyer. I’m profoundly humbled by the chance to serve our nice nation because the chief federal legislation enforcement officer in Massachusetts,” Foley stated in a press release. “I look ahead to working with the excellent women and men of the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace and our native, state and federal legislation enforcement companions to guard our communities and help the ideas of the rule of legislation.”
Previous to her tenure with the Division of Justice, Foley served as counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary from 1998-2002, the place she suggested Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, on drug coverage and different legal legislation issues; negotiated coverage points with representatives of elected officers, federal businesses, public curiosity teams and personal organizations; traveled to overseas nations to evaluate American legislation enforcement initiatives overseas; and labored with overseas legislation enforcement and officers to fight worldwide drug trafficking.
Earlier than starting her profession in public service, she labored as an affiliate at diGenova & Toensing in Washington D.C., representing shoppers in tax, antitrust, securities fraud and FEC violations circumstances.
Foley obtained a Grasp of Legal guidelines from Georgetown College Legislation Middle in 1996 after receiving her Juris Physician from Loyola Legislation College. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts from the College of Louisiana at Lafayette the place she studied English, philosophy and French.
