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...Fitzgerald with a sense of humor." - Hugh Keefe, a Connecticut defense lawyer, comparing Durham to Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who led the investigation into the leaked identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame (Washington Post, January...
...spotlight is on Dr. Murray. But it's not the only spotlight we're going to see." - Attorney Brian Oxman to TIME on July 23, talking about the probable direction of the investigation into Jackson's death...
John Durham is a low-profile professional thrust into a decidedly high-profile assignment. The press-shy Connecticut prosecutor was tapped by Attorney General Eric Holder on Aug. 24 to investigate alleged mistreatment of terror suspects by CIA interrogators and contractors. His appointment came on the heels of a newly released Justice Department report indicating interrogators abused prisoners by, among other things, threatening to kill one man's family and choking another man to the point of unconsciousness. Durham, 59, is no stranger to top-level governmental investigations. In 1999 he was selected by Attorney General Janet Reno to probe...
...Served as a Vista Volunteer on a Montana Indian reservation for two years after law school. Then returned to Connecticut to join the State's Attorney's office. (Read "Officials Defend CIA's Use of Contractors...
...request of then-Attorney General Reno, investigated whether notorious Boston mobsters James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi had corrupted the FBI agents whom they served as informants. That probe led to the conviction of retired FBI agent John Connolly Jr., sentenced to 10 years in prison for helping the two avoid prosecution. The investigation helped inspire the Martin Scorsese film The Departed...