Nora R. Dannehy

Nora R. DannehyActing United States AttorneyDistrict of Connecticut

On April 4, 2008, Nora R. Dannehy became Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut upon the resignation of United States Attorney Kevin J. O’Connor, who currently serves as Associate Attorney General of the United States. Ms. Dannehy has been an Assistant United States Attorney in the Office for 17 years, most recently serving as Deputy United States Attorney. [http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/ct/usattorney.html]

Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey on September 29, 2008, appointed a federal prosecutor, Ms. Dannehy, to continue an investigation into the dismissals of nine federal prosecutors in 2006 as an internal Justice Department inquiry concluded that political pressure drove the action against at least three of them. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/washington/30usattorney.html]