LawFuel – Legal Newswire – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 47, today announced his
resignation effective December 1, 2008. Upon Mr. GARCIA’s
resignation, LEV L. DASSIN, 43, the Deputy United States Attorney
for the Southern District of New York, will serve as the Acting
United States Attorney.
Mr. GARCIA, a graduate of Binghamton University, the
College of William and Mary, and Albany Law School of Union
University, first served as an Assistant United States Attorney
in the Southern District of New York from 1992 to 2001. For his
work on a number of high-profile terrorism cases as an Assistant
United States Attorney, Mr. GARCIA was twice awarded the
Department of Justice’s Exceptional Service award (the
Department’s highest honor) as well as the Distinguished Service
award. Mr. GARCIA then served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce
for Export Enforcement until 2002 when he was appointed Acting
Commissioner of the United States Immigration and Naturalization
Service. Upon the creation of the Department of Homeland
Security, Mr. GARCIA became the first Assistant Secretary of
Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In September 2005, he
returned to the Southern District of New York as the Senateconfirmed
United States Attorney.
During his tenure as United States Attorney, Mr. GARCIA
served on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee and was the
chair of its Subcommittee on Terrorism and National Security. He
was also a member of the President’s Corporate Fraud Task Force.
Mr. GARCIA plans to join a private law firm in New York
City.
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