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 Currie, who returned to the office in November to become Lynch's
second-in-command, will be the acting U.S. Attorney for Eastern
District of New York. Lynch was officially sworn in Monday as
attorney general, replacing Eric Holder.
The 170-lawyer U.S. Attorney's office oversees cases in the New York
boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island, as well as in Long
Island.
The office has recently pursued defendants ranging from former U.S.
Representative Michael Grimm, who pleaded guilty in December to a
tax charge, to Abid Naseer, a Pakistani man convicted in March of
conspiring with al Qaeda to bomb U.S. and European targets.
The office is also pursuing a civil rights investigation into the
July 2014 death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man whose death
after a chokehold by a white police officer sparked outrage and
protests.
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Prior to joining the office in November, Currie had been a partner
at the law firm Crowell & Moring for four years.
He previously served in the office from 1999 to 2010, including as
deputy chief of its criminal division and chief of its violent
crimes and terrorism section.
(Editing by Bernadette Baum)
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