U.S. Attorney John Durham resigns; led prosecution of mobsters, drug kingpins and corrupt politician
Source: Hartford Courant
Full Headline: U.S. Attorney John Durham resigns; led prosecution of mobsters, drug kingpins and corrupt politicians. A hero in the law enforcement community.
By EDMUND H. MAHONY HARTFORD COURANT | FEB 26, 2021 AT 6:10 PM
U.S Attorney John H. Durham, who has built an extraordinary record over more than four decades as a Connecticut prosecutor, is leaving office this weekend, part of President Joe Bidens plan to quickly replace top federal prosecutors around the country with his own appointees.
Durham has played a leading role in the most most important criminal cases in Connecticut and elsewhere in the country since the 1970s and, as his departure from office approached, judges, lawyers and law enforcement officers reflected on his contributions to the states criminal justice system and his absence going forward.
Im biased, said Robert Devlin, a senior state appellate judge and Durhams partner 40 years ago on the federal justice departments super-secret organized crime strike force. But if you look at it objectively, how can you not say that John Durham is the most consequential federal prosecutor ever to come out of the District of Connecticut. Maybe even broader than that. Look at the cases he made and pushed across the finish line. One after the other; huge and difficult and complicated cases.
As a mob prosecutor, Durham, now 70, convicted the leadership of the Patriarca Crime family, then New Englands most powerful criminal outfit, riveting mob watchers across the country by playing for a Hartford jury - for the first time ever, in public - a recording of vicious gangsters pricking their trigger fingers and burning images of the crime familys patron saint during the mafias secret initiation ceremony.
Read more: https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-john-durham-leaves-office-20210225-20210226-oiha3hmoljab3pq7rfniiqyltq-story.html
mackdaddy
(1,527 posts)It does not really say, just that he is leaving his normal federal prosecutor position.
It certainly was a fluff piece on this guy though.
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OnDoutside
(19,956 posts)Biden didn't fire him.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)The only thing he'll be remembered for - and he knows it.
UpInArms
(51,282 posts)eom
mzmolly
(50,992 posts)disappointed.
RussBLib
(9,008 posts)"Durham wasn't done! Biden cut off his knees."
Usual right-wing blather.
true, true.
Bleacher Creature
(11,256 posts)His pre-2017 reputation is meaningless after capitulating to Trump and Barr these last few years.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,307 posts)Thanks, Barr.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)Is a man retiring at 70 that surprising?
rockfordfile
(8,702 posts)He didn't really hold anybody accountable when it really mattered.