Fitzgerald Deserves Top U.S. Law Post, Comey Says (Update3)
By Patricia Hurtado and David Voreacos
July 20 (Bloomberg) — Patrick Fitzgerald won the convictions of four Osama bin Laden associates in May 2001. In March, he got Lewis “Scooter” Libby. Last week, he nailed Conrad Black.
Fitzgerald, 46, isn’t saying what he’ll do next in his career. Friends and colleagues say he probably will remain a prosecutor rather than join a law firm. One colleague says Fitzgerald’s destiny may include the top law-enforcement job in the country: U.S. attorney general.
‘ ‘ I think he would make a spectacular attorney general,” said former Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Comey, now general counsel at Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed Martin Corp., the world’s largest defense contractor. ‘ ‘ He certainly is one of the very best federal prosecutors in America.'”
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