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US Attorney General Jeff Sessions Monday appointed a senior federal prosecutor on Long Island in a new task force targeting the MS-13 street gang and other criminal groups transnational organizations.
US Deputy Attorney John Durham of the East District of New York was one of five federal prosecutors from across the country appointed to the new Transnational Crime Task Force.
"AUSA Durham played an important role in the FBI Task Force on Long Island, which arrested hundreds of MS-13 members," Sessions said in a Washington task force announcement, according to prepared remarks.
According to his statements, he asked the subcommittees to make "specific recommendations" in the next 90 days "on the best ways to prosecute these gangs and remove them from our streets," according to his statement.
A spokesman for the US Attorney's Office in Central Islip, where Durham has been working for about 13 years on his LinkedIn page, did not immediately comment.
Durham is the lead prosecutor in the case of alleged members of an MS-13 gang accused of the murder of 15-year-old Nisa Mickens and her friend Kayla Cuevas, 16, on September 13, 2016. the gang by the authorities Local and federal repressive and drew the attention of President Donald Trump, who taunted the gang while defending an anti-illegal immigration program.
The new initiative will be overseen by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, according to Sessions.
During the creation of the working group, the sessions designated MS-13 and four other entities – Cartel del Jalisco Nueva Genreacion or CJNG; the Sinaloa cartel; Clan del Golfo and Lebanese Hezbollah – as "main threats of transnational organized crime".
Nicole Fuller is Newsday's senior criminal justice reporter. She started working at Newsday in 2012 and previously covered the local government.
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