Brooklyn prosecutors’ aggressive tactics net the Eastern District of New York an outsize share of high-profile cases
Newsworthy defendants are not easily quantifiable, but international terrorism cases are. In such investigations, venue is often unclear. There is no default court to try the murder of an American diplomat in Niger by a man from Mali, as was done in Brooklyn in 2016. Since 2003’s prosecutors have tried more international terrorism cases than any other district court, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a database.
In the 1990s, Brooklyn’s well-heeled counterpart in Manhattan, the Southern District of New York, brought big cases against members of al-Qaeda, such as after the of America’s embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. After September 11th, Kelly Currie, the former deputy chief of the department overseeing terrorism investigations, says that a “sea change” in resources allowedagents as they uncovered threats, travelling widely to chase evidence.
Mr DuCharme reckons he visited about 20 countries in his tenure; another former prosecutor, Zainab Ahmad, worked cases from at least 16. Another, Shreve Ariail, travelled to Sicily in 2011 after getting a tip that an al-Qaeda operative had turned up on a passenger ship from Libya.
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