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FBI Los Angeles Division gets New Assistant Director

Written by FEDagent on 18 October 2012. Posted in GEICO's Good Stuff

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has named Bill Lewis as the new assistant director in charge of FBI’s Los Angeles Division.

Lewis began his career as a special agent with the FBI in 1988, when he reported to the Lincoln Resident Agency of the Omaha Division. Several years later, Lewis was transferred to the Atlanta Division to investigate domestic terrorism and drug matters.

In September 1997, Lewis was promoted to supervisory special agent. Around that time, Lewis was charged with management of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing investigation and supervision of the Eric Rudolph fugitive investigation.

Lewis was assigned to the Violent Crimes/Fugitive Unit in the Criminal Investigative Division at FBI Headquarters in November 1999 as a supervisory special agent. Lewis was later designated as the unit chief of the FBI’s Transfer Unit in December 2000.

During his career at the FBI, Lewis also served as assistant special agent in charge of the Mobile Division; the Counterterrorism Division’s on-scene commander in Iraq; legal attaché for the FBI in Baghdad, Iraq; and special agent in charge of the Criminal Division in Los Angeles.

Before joining the FBI, Lewis earned a criminal justice degree from Troy State University.

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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 13^th 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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