Mike Scarcella
The Blog of Legal Times
12/3/2012
Attorney General Eric Holder Jr.’s chief of staff, Gary Grindler, is leaving the department this week after serving in various high-level roles since 2009.
Grindler, who joined the department’s Criminal Division as a deputy assistant attorney general under the leadership of Lanny Breuer in April 2009, served as the second-in-command at DOJ in 2010 after the departure of David Ogden.
Holder named Grindler—a former white-collar defense and government investigations partner at King & Spalding—chief of staff in January 2011. (Grindler, who had worked under Holder during the Clinton administration, replaced Kevin Ohlson.)…
…The timing of Grindler’s decision to leave the department comes between administrations, when it’s not uncommon to see changes in federal agency leadership posts…
…Margaret Richardson, Holder’s deputy chief of staff, will be the new chief of staff, DOJ said.
Richardson, who served as director of Women for Obama in several states, including California, joined DOJ in early 2009. Richardson previously directed the Clean Slate Clinic at the East Bay Community Law Center in Berkeley, Calif. She has been a counselor to the attorney general since January 2009…
…House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said in a report published in October that Grindler was aware of the connection between flawed investigatory tactics and the December 2010 death of a border patrol agent but failed to “properly supervised the operation.”…
The complete article is at The BLT.
H/T The Ulsterman
There’s more at Big Government, Holder’s Chief of Staff to Resign After Critical Fast and Furious Report.
