July 20 (Bloomberg) — Patrick Fitzgerald won the convictions of four Osama bin Laden associates in May 2001. In March, he got Lewis “Scooter” Libby. Last week, he nailed Conrad Black.
Fitzgerald, 46, isn’t saying what he’ll do next in his career. Friends and colleagues say he probably will remain a prosecutor rather than join a law firm. One colleague says Fitzgerald’s destiny may include the top law-enforcement job in the country: U.S. attorney general.
“I think he would make a spectacular attorney general,” said former Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Comey, now general counsel at Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed Martin Corp., the world’s largest defense contractor. “He certainly is one of the very best federal prosecutors in America.”
It’d be a smart move by the incoming Democratic administration to move him to some higher position in DOJ.
In other things, Fitzgerald, I saw the guy at Millennium Park in Chicago yesterday. He was the special guest for “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me” which was being taped there.
Nina Totenburg did a short piece on the event on today’s “All Things Considered.