President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be US attorney in the Eastern District of New York has presided over cases as a state judge on Long Island involving defendants charged with stealing from makeup shop Sephora or drunk driving.
If confirmed, Joseph Nocella would lead cases of an entirely different scale out of the Brooklyn-based office that’s recently prosecuted Mexican drug cartel figures, Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, and former Rep. George Santos.
Nocella, a 1989 Columbia Law School graduate who began his career as a prosecutor there in the early 1990s, would return as the boss of a staff of roughly ...
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