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FBI Names Mark Giuliano Special Agent in Charge of Atlanta Division

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Mark Giuliano has been named special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Atlanta Division, FBI announced this week in a release.

“Under Mark’s leadership, the National Security Branch has integrated intelligence into operations in ways that have fundamentally changed the way we do business,” said FBI Director Robert Mueller. “He has also played a critical role in building and improving relationships with other members of the U.S. intelligence community and with state, local and federal entities. He will continue to make contributions to the Bureau and to our nation as special agent in charge in Atlanta.”

Giuliano’s career as a special agent with the FBI began in 1988 when he reported to the Washington Field Office and worked on the Safe Streets and Gang Task Force and served on SWAT as an assault team leader.

In 1997, Giuliano was promoted to supervisory special agent in the Violent Crimes Section at FBI Headquarters. While there, he was responsible for the fugitive and Top Ten programs, FBI said.

Giuliano was later assigned to the Atlanta Division where he served as supervisory special agent of the violent crimes and international terrorism squads.

During his career, Giuliano also served as assistant special agent in charge of National Security, FBI’s on-scene commander in Afghanistan, chief of the Domestic Terrorism and Strategic Operation Section in the Counterterrorism Division, deputy assistant director and assistant director for Operations Branch II and executive assistant director of the National Security Branch.

Giuliano has an economics degree from the College of Wooster.

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Former Congressman Richard Renzi Convicted of Extortion and Bribery in Illegal Federal Land Swap

On Tuesday this week a federal jury in Tucson, Arizona found former Congressman Richard Renzi (R-AZ) and a real-estate investor, James Sandlin, guilty of conspiring to extort and bribe individuals seeking a federal land exchange.

Renzi, 55, was found guilty of 17 felony offenses including conspiracy, honest services wire fraud, extortion under color of official right, racketeering, money laundering and making false statements to insurance regulators. Sandlin, 62, was found guilty of 13 felony offenses including conspiracy, honest services wire fraud, extortion under color of official right and money laundering.

The convictions were announced by Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney John Leonardo of the District of Arizona.

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Data Scientists Gather for Government Performance Summit #GPS13

GEICO’s Good Stuff is a column series highlighting great stuff happening in the federal community.

This week, the Performance Institute convened their 13th annual Government Performance Summit just outside Washington, DC in Crystal City, Virginia. This year’s summit is entitled “Science of Data: Unlocking Information for Improved Insight.”

Speakers and break-out sessions focused on the increased access and availability of government data, which presents agencies with the capability to use verifiable information to set, monitor, and track progress towards reaching their strategic goals.

Jon Desenberg, a senior director at the Performance Institute, said the Government Performance Summit (GPS) is “a groundbreaking opportunity to learn from government managers on how to improve the way government works.”

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Supreme Court Holds That Obtaining DNA Samples From Arrestees Suspected of Committing Violent Crimes Is Constitutional

In 2009, Alonzo King brandished a shotgun at several people.  He was arrested and, pursuant to Maryland law, at his booking a DNA sample was taken from him.  This DNA sample was eventually run through a database of DNA obtained in relation to unsolved crimes.  The results implicated Mr. King in a previously unsolved rape which was committed in 2003.  Based on the DNA evidence, Mr. King was convicted of rape and sentenced to life imprisonment, although he challenged the government’s gathering of his DNA as an unlawful suspicionless search in violation of the Fourth Amendment.  After several appeals, and in an unusually split 5-4 decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Maryland’s law allowing law enforcement officers to obtain a DNA sample from suspected violent felons at booking was constitutional. 

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