Reply #33: here is my current round-up of Fitzgerald [View All]

He has prosecuted the mob and Chicago Mayor Daley's cronyism. He must insulate himself from political pressures.

I think that with Judy Miller giving more information, there is a bit of a new flow of information and so he will have to follow it again and this process will go on for a while longer.




FBI indicts 14 reputed mob figures
FBI agents were always sure that 18 unsolved murders, some dating back more than three decades, were ordered by some of the top men in the Chicago mob. But they were never able to arrest anyone for the crimes — until now.

Patrick Fitzgerald announces the arrests of reputed mob members and associates on charges of plotting at least 18 murders. "The mob takes a hit today," U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald told reporters in announcing the charges.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-04-25-fbi-mob_...


CIA leak prosecutor takes on Chicago machine

Fitzgerald leads investigation into Daley's political empire CHICAGO - He sent members of New York’s Gambino crime family to the federal pen and he jailed terrorists who planned to strike America with a wave of bombings. Now Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the federal prosecutor who heads Washington’s CIA leak investigation, is also taking on City Hall. The 45-year-old New Yorker who is chief federal prosecutor in
Chicago is digging deep into Mayor Richard M. Daley’s political empire.


Chicago officials aren’t the only ones concerned about Fitzgerald’s zeal. New York Times reporter Judith Miller has been jailed since July 6 for refusing to testify in his investigation of who leaked
the fact that Valerie Plame was an undercover CIA officer. Miller said she was keeping her promise of confidentiality to her source. But Fitzgerald said not even the attorney general or director of central intelligence could make such a vow. “I would love to tell someone, ’Come in, and tell me what you know. I will never betray who you are to anyone,”’ Fitzgerald said. “I would love to say that in the hunt for bin Laden.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8852202 /