Prosecutor in anthrax, Blackwater cases resigns

By GottaLaff

President Obama is looking for a replacement:

Washington U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Taylor, a holdover from the Bush administration, will leave the Justice Department on Friday. He will join the auditing firm Ernst & Young, where he will lead their fraud investigation practice.

Taylor inherited the anthrax and Chandra Levy investigations and declared both long-unsolved matters closed. [...]

Taylor also announced manslaughter charges against Blackwater security contractors involved in the deadly 2007 shooting of Iraqi civilians. The case involved the unprecedented question of whether overseas State Department contractors could be charged in the U.S.

Taylor previously served as counselor to Attorney Generals John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales. He has also served as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee and as a line prosecutor in San Diego.

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