The President Trump administration has appointed a new U.S. Legal professional for Massachusetts.
Appearing U.S. Legal professional Common James McHenry appointed Leah Belaire Foley to the submit on Monday, the U.S. Legal professional’s workplace for Massachusetts introduced at present.
“I can think of no greater mission than that of public service and it is the honor of a lifetime to now serve in the capacity of U.S. Attorney,” Foley mentioned in an announcement included with the announcement. “I am profoundly humbled by the opportunity to serve our great nation as the chief federal law enforcement officer in Massachusetts.”
“I look forward to working with the outstanding men and women of the U.S. Attorney’s Office and our local, state and federal law enforcement partners to protect our communities and support the principles of the rule of law,” she continued.
Foley replaces U.S. Legal professional Joshua Levy, who tendered his resignation following Trump’s election, as is the norm for all political appointees when a brand new administration is available in.
Foley isn’t any stranger to the federal courts, having served as a federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., the place she prosecuted violent crimes, intercourse crimes, felony narcotics and firearms instances. In 2006, she joined the Massachusetts workplace as an assistant U.S. Legal professional within the felony division.
She most not too long ago served because the deputy chief of the workplace’s Narcotics & Cash Laundering Unit, the place she oversaw worldwide and home narcotics investigations and worldwide cash laundering, immigration, human trafficking and firearms instances, in line with the U.S. Legal professional’s workplace.
A U.S. Legal professional’s workplace spokeswoman mentioned the workplace doesn’t but have an official picture of Foley to offer.
Foley has a Juris Physician diploma from Loyola Legislation Faculty, a university of Loyola Marymount College, a non-public Catholic college in Los Angeles. She supplemented that with a Grasp of Legal guidelines diploma from Georgetown College in Washington, D.C., in 1996. Her undergraduate diploma is from the College of Louisiana at Lafayette the place she studied English, philosophy and French.
A marriage announcement printed within the New York Occasions on Might 23, 2004, states that she married faculty professor Fritz Foley, who at the moment serves as each a professor and the senior affiliate dean for strategic monetary planning at Harvard Business Faculty, in line with his LinkedIn profile.
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Former U.S. Legal professional Josh Levy speaks at a media roundtable for the final time in his time period on Jan. 8 on the federal courthouse. (Nancy Lane/Boston Herald)
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