The highest felony prosecutor within the Biden administration is linked to an anti-police group.
In response to a report by The Washington Free Beacon, Nicole M. Argentieri, Senior Deputy Lawyer Normal for the Legal Division of the Division of Justice, beforehand labored for the Authorized Help Society of New York.
The Authorized Help Society of New York supported the 2021 Defund the Police march.
Attorneys on the Authorized Help Society of New York additionally represented Black Liberation Military members Herman Bell and Jalil Muntaqim of their parole circumstances. The 2 people had been convicted of killing two New York Metropolis law enforcement officials in 1971.
Argentieri served on the board of the Authorized Help Society whereas working on the personal regulation agency O'Melveny & Myer.
The Free Beacon reported that “O'Melveny & Myers supplied professional bono providers to the Authorized Help Society and in addition served on its 'Police Accountability Undertaking,' representing defendants arrested throughout Black Lives Matter protests in the summertime of 2020.”
Whereas the hassle was designed to “maintain police accountable,” its supervising lawyer, Jennvine Wong, advocated defunding police departments, the location famous.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) wrote on X: “The Performing Chief of the Justice Division's Legal Division, Nicole Argentieri, served on the board of a bunch that advocated parole for cop killers.”
“Police killers deserve the dying penalty, however the radicals who lead the Biden administration would allow them to be killed once more,” he continued. “The number of Argentieri to steer the Legal Division as Govt is a slap within the face to any courageous police officer.”
Argentieri's profile describes her as overseeing “greater than 1,400 federal prosecutors and division employees who conduct investigations and prosecutions involving organized and transnational crime, violent crime, cybercrime, public corruption, cash laundering, securities fraud, fraud in healthcare, the Overseas Corrupt Practices Act. violations of the Financial institution Secrecy and Legal Sanctions Act, baby exploitation, worldwide narcotics trafficking, human rights violations, mental property theft and different crimes, in addition to issues involving worldwide affairs and delicate regulation enforcement strategies.”
American Religion reported that Biden's judicial nominee for the Third Circuit Courtroom of Appeals, Adeel Mangi, can be affiliated with the anti-police group.
Mangi sits on the advisory board of the Alliance of Households for Justice, a bunch that helps people who’ve killed law enforcement officials.
“In letters to varied senators, [law enforcement] organizations spotlight Mangi's function on the advisory board of the Alliance of Households for Justice (AFJ), a corporation not solely co-founded by the cop killer, however which has additionally labeled different convicted cop killers as 'freedom fighters,'” the press launch mentioned. dismissal from the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The 5 teams that despatched the letters had been the Rockland County Patrolmen's Benevolent Affiliation, the Nationwide Affiliation of Police Organizations, the Nationwide Sheriffs' Affiliation, the New Jersey State Warrant Officers Affiliation and the New Jersey State Police Benevolent Affiliation.
