(Credit: Annemilgramtwitter.com / Former New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram is President Biden’s choice to lead the U.S. Drug Enformcement Agency (DEA)
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES
President Joe Biden has nominated Anne Milgram, a former New Jersey attorney general, and prosecutor to head the Drug Enforcement Administration, the White House announced Monday. Milgram has had a distinguished career as a state, local, and federal prosecutor. As New Jersey’s Attorney General from 2007-2010, Milgram was New Jersey’s chief law enforcement officer and led the 9,000-person Department of Law & Public Safety, overseeing the New Jersey State Police and the State Division of Criminal Justice. Supporters praise her “strong record” on criminal justice reform. During her career, Milgram spearheaded investigations into human trafficking, narcotics trafficking, street gangs, violent and organized crime, public corruption, securities fraud, mortgage fraud, and civil rights violation, the White House said in a press release.
Milgram began her career as an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. She went on to serve as a federal prosecutor in the United States Department of Justice, where she became Special Litigation Counsel for the prosecution of human trafficking crimes. In that role, Milgram partnered with United States Attorney’s Offices in the Eastern District of New York, New Jersey, and New Hampshire to prosecute some of the first sex trafficking and forced labor cases under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.
Milgram is currently a Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at New York University School of Law, where she teaches seminars on human trafficking and local criminal prosecution and leads the Criminal Justice Lab. The Lab, in partnership with local jurisdictions, has designed and built a screening tool that can be used by law enforcement to identify individuals suffering from mental health and substance abuse disorders who can safely be diverted into treatment.
DEA Has Been Without Senate-Confirmed Leader Since Obama Administration
(Source: Wikipedia Commons) Badge of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a $3 Billion United States federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Justice tasked with combating drug trafficking and distribution within the U.S. The DEA has been without a Senate-confirmed leader since the Obama Administration.
Milgram was among 11 new Biden appointees to major law enforcement posts announced Monday, including Tucson police chief Chris Magnus, named to head the Customs and Border Protect Agency.
