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: Legal Pad | LAFormer U.S. attorney nominated to police commission
By Richard Binder
Last Thursday Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa nominated a former U.S. attorney to serve on the police commission and help choose the next chief.
Debra Wong Yang, 49, who served as the nation's first Asian-American U.S. attorney from 2002-07, was nominated to fill the vacancy left by Anthony Pacheco, who stepped down for personal reasons. Yang, who also has served as a Municipal and Superior Court judge, now works at the firm of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher in its crisis management practice and white-collar defense groups.
Yang says her prime interests now are seeing that the Los Angeles Police Department fully implements the consent decree without backsliding on the reforms created before it was lifted last month.
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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on August 17, 2009 (boomark / email).
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