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            Obama to Nominate NYC Prosecutor as US Attorney General

   by VOA News

   The White House says President Barack Obama will nominate Loretta Lynch
   as attorney general of the United States to replace the outgoing Eric
   Holder.

   United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta
   Lynch, if confirmed, would be the first African- American woman to hold
   the post.

   The White House said Obama will announce his intention to nominate her
   to the post on Saturday.  It described Lynch as a strong, independent
   prosecutor who has twice led one of the most important U.S. Attorney's
   Offices in the country.

   The 55-year-old Harvard Law School graduate grew up in Greensboro,
   North Carolina. She began her career as a federal prosecutor in 1990.

   In 2010 she was appointed to the Attorney General's Holder Advisory
   Committee.

   Lynch served as U.S. attorney in Brooklyn from 1999 to 2001 before
   working in the private sector.

   Lynch's office has prosecuted several high profile cases involving
   corruption, terrorism and organized crime.



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