Ruth Pollack, Esq. Testimony New York Senate Judiciary Committee. More Proof of Major New York Corruption.

Rita Adler is Chief Counsel of the NYS Grievance Committee for Tenth Judicial District - Rita Adler is Corrupt in my Book and there is NO Doubt About it.

Rita Adler is the Former Chief of Investigations Division at Suffolk County District Attorney. This alone gives her connections and powers that many may never understand.

Rita Adler stays in her powerful corrupt, life ruining, position for a reason - and that reason is THEY let her.. ..

.. meaning people like Proskauer Rose LLP, Ex-Supreme Justice appointed by Mario Cuomo - CORRUPT Judith Kaye, guys like George Demos with Massive Money behind him for Corruption he Pulled off for major companies like JP Morgan while George Demos was a Corrupt SEC investigator... Rita Adler Protects George Demos's Secrets.. in return George Demos protects Rita Adler and the Wall of Corruption gets Higher...

More on that at
www.PeterSivere.com

Rita Adler is Conflicted on Many Levels. I believe that Rita Adler is in Conflict and Corruption with NYAG Andrew Cuomo, with Proskauer Rose, with the New York Bar, the New York Supreme Court and thereby protecting Proskauer Rose Corruption in multiple states, Protecting Trillions in Secrets for Major Corporations, such as the Iviewit Technologies Theft and protecting the Criminal Activity of George Demos, Andrew Cuomo and other Elite.. Protected New York Politicians..

What Ever Companies, Corrupt Lawyers, Corrupt Politicians that Rita Adler is GIVEN Order to PROTECT - well She Darn well WILL ~ and You .. well your Just Collateral Damage in a War you had Nothing to do with. .. as Rita Adler is TOLD who to Quiet, Keep Down, Destroy and Run Out of Business and Well Rita Adler DOES Just That.

Rita Adler did NOT investigate the George Demos Complaint, not even a little and DISMISSED it.. the Evidence massive, easily proven .. Dismissed with No Proper or Really ANY "Looking Into" at all. Massive Fraud, Cover Ups .. hundred of millions of dollars, lives ruined, whistleblower loses job and NOTHING from the Corrupt Ruth Adler... Yet in the Ruth Pollack Video Testimony we see that Rita Adler .. .. somehow went after this Attorney with a Vengence and Why?

What was Ruth Pollack Esq. Working on that was so important to the Corrupt Cronies that Rita Adler Answer to that would make Rita Adler set her up. It looks to me like Rita Adler went out of her way to Stop, what looks to me like a Good, Honest, non-rights violating attorney that simply is representing her clients and practicing law.. AND out of no where the Corrupt Rita Adler and cronies target this Attorney.

Sure makes me curious what Ruth Pollack was working on and for Whom, that would make Rita Adler not only INVESTIGATE but also to find a way to go after this attorneys license, to take away her livlihood, and well basically do all that Rita Adler can to Shut her UP - yet not make one inquiry on to the actual ILLEGAL activities of George Demos... well Money, Greed, Politics are a HUGE motive for Rita Adler and Certainly not Law, Morals, Ethics or Constitutional Rights.

So Protect George Demos and Take down Ruth Pollack Esq. hmmm. there is a WHOLE lot more to this don't ya think?

George Demos is Corrupt, Plain and Simple.

New York Criminal Defense Attorney David Schwartz of Gerstman Schwartz LLP, who I believe was working for Chris Cox's father - well they were "Looking Into" the George Demos situation.. thing is the Proof is Right there... but to Expose the SEC Corruption, George Demos.. well then folks like the Corrupt Rita Adler and the Massive Corruption out of JP Morgan would be exposed as well - and with JP Morgan exposure you have.. OOPS.. pant on the ground for the Highest Power of ALL and that Is the Corrupt Proskauer Rose Law Firm in New York.

Attorneys that are Honest and Speak Out, well ...
MOST all are Silenced in One Way or another..

As in the Portland Attorney Fraternity, you Cross the Protected Attorneys and You Pay, you are set up, you lose your career and in the case of the murdered federal public defender Nancy Bergeson.

She gave her life, all because she said the jury was tampered with, all because she worked for the truth and did not favor the MONEY people.. but instead the TRUTH, the law.

Those who defy the Wall of Corruption and respect the rights of the people are Set Up, Pushed Out, Threatened and worse - so most choose their life, their jobs, their kids ... they have to in many instances. Thing is every now and then there is someone brave enough to stand up for all of us regardless of their consequences.

Those Brave Hearts and Wise Voices that stand up and speak for all of us, and take those blows of Economic Terrorism, those threats, the severe defamation among peers and potential clients... and those who give ALL they have ever known there life to be in order to Give Voice to Victims, in order to turn the light on in the dark rooms of dirty deeds ~ Well Those people need you to stand up, speak out, and make noise to give them cover fire per say.

As the Wall of Corruption is so high, and involves every level of the Judicial process, they don't stand a chance alone. They need your light to shine on them as they Boldly Expose what is hurting us all and few can stand up to.

Listen to this New York Attorney Speak up on behalf of .. well what I call live and let live - not discriminating but basing legal cases, justice if you will, on actual law and NOT on favoritism, lifestyle, who you know - who you owe, the size of your pocketbook

It is Easy to Hide under Your Bed while Bad things happen to Other people, many find it the Only Way. Other wise you lose all you have come to know as your life.

Thing is Women Like Ruth Pollack, New York Attorney - well they simply can't do that. It is not an option to lay down the Truth and let the victims suffer for it. It really is not an option to hide and wait for the storm to pass. Woman like Ruth Pollack Esq. makes a stand for you all - and especially for all you Attorneys out there who have to Conform, who swallow that jagged pill of deceit and dishonesty to protect your family - your way of life.... You attorneys out there who are made to look the other way at the Evils that happen at Corrupt law firms like Foley and Lardner...AND .. Like the Massively Corrupt Proskauer Rose Law Firm.

Below is a Link to Ruth Pollack, Esq. Testimony to the New York Senate Judiciary Committee, about the unEthical, Corrupt, Illegal activities of Ruth Adler - further proof of the Mass Corruption in New York Courts.
http://www.investigativeblogger.com/2010/10/ruth-pollack-esq-testimony-new-york.html

Coming Soon Connection between Rita Adler and Ex-Supreme Court Judge Judith Kaye, Connections with Rita Adler and Proskauer Rose LLP, information on WHY and HOW Rita Adler really does help to create and maintain the massive Wall of Corruption in New York Courts.

Rita Adler gets perks and benefits Galore... George Demos had NO Repercussions for ruining Peter Sivere's Life, for Letting JP Morgon off on over 300 Million Dollars in Criminal Activity as George Demos worked for the SEC and basically whitewashed the EVIL and Criminal behavior of JP Morgan. More on the Peter Sivere - Rita Adler - George Demos

Do you have a Tip Rita Adler? How about her husband Noel Adler and Address changes to make sure that Rita Adler's agenda for her Cronies is carried out? Do you have a Tip as an attorney on Rita Adler Corruption, email me Crystal@CrystalCox.com - start a one time Gmail Account if you need to stay anonymous, or simply go to some location and search your tip and find my site and click on it.

Rita Adler's PAST - all of it - Rita Adler RUINS lives and protects corruption, she has to GET something out of it. What is It? Rita Adler was Chief of Investigations Division at Suffolk County District Attorney - so you know she has TONS of Secrets KNOWN and Favors Owed. What are they?

eMail me at Crystal@CrystalCox.com

Do what you Can to Bring the Truth to the Lie, the Light to the Dark.. .Tell On Rita Adler, Noel Adler, George Demos, Andrew Cuomo, and the gang that has taken over any chance of your New York Justice system actually being based on Justice, on the Law, or anywhere near the Constitution of the United States of America.

Folks At this Point, Silence is Betrayel.
Speak Up Now or Seriously Forever Hold your Peace.

Posted Here by
Crystal L. Cox
Investigative Blogger
Crystal@CrystalCox.com



Resources to Post


http://www.investigativeblogger.com/2010/10/ruth-pollack-esq-testimony-new-york.html

www.PeterSivere.com

www.JamesPelzer.com

www.SecondDepartment.com

http://www.industrywhistleblower.com/2010/08/new-york-criminal-defense-attorney.html

http://www.petersivere.com/2010/03/peter-z-sivere-v-jp-morgan-chase.html

http://www.petersivere.com/search/label/Rita%20Adler

George Demos Facts and Connections
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Demos

"At SEC, the system can be deaf to Whistleblowing" - I say the SEC has Motives to NOT Listen as they Still are NOT Listening To Billion Dollar Tips.

" By Zachary A. Goldfarb
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 21, 2010

Eric Kolchinsky was an executive at Moody's, the credit rating company, when he called a top official at the Securities and Exchange Commission in September to warn that his firm might be violating securities law. He reported that Moody's was blessing mortgage-backed investments that it knew were dangerous, according to a person familiar with the conversation.

The SEC official assured Kolchinsky that someone from the agency would call him back shortly. But the call never came, Kolchinsky later told congressional investigators who were examining how the credit rating industry's failures contributed to the financial crisis. He had gone to Congress after losing patience with the SEC.

Kolchinsky is one in a series of whistleblowers who in recent years tried to tip off the SEC to potential wrongdoing, only to be ignored, misunderstood or left to wonder whether they were being listened to. The SEC has no system in place to guide how officials should handle tips and complaints from outsiders, making it difficult for investigators to take advantage of an invaluable source of information.

This failure helped to continue two of the most celebrated frauds of the last decade for several years, potentially costing unwitting investors millions of dollars. Countless others may have been left vulnerable to shysters because of warnings that went unheeded.

Since SEC Chairman Mary L. Schapiro took office last year, she has said that fixing the holes in the process for handling tips and complaints has been a top priority. But improving the way hundreds of thousands of tips are analyzed and pursued has proven difficult.

The SEC's enforcement division got back in touch with Kolchinsky about his allegations only after he told the story publicly to a congressional committee last fall, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The SEC said it responded to Kolchinsky's concerns but declined to provide details or to say how fast it did so. Moody's said it examined his allegations and found nothing improper.
The SEC has a haphazard, decentralized system for analyzing outsider information.

Tips arrive by phone, mail and e-mail to officials throughout the agency -- investor education to enforcement divisions. A study commissioned by the SEC last year and conducted by Mitre, a nonprofit group that does research for the federal government, found that the SEC lacks technology to analyze tips and complaints, as well as cohesive policies for what officials should do when they get information.

Whistleblower complaints are one of the main ways that investigators should be tipped to wrongdoing, SEC officials say, along with inconsistencies in financial filings and alerts from financial exchanges about suspicious trading patterns. But the SEC lags behind some other federal agencies in handling tips.

The Internal Revenue Service, for instance, pays reward money to whistleblowers who provide credible information about tax fraud. The Federal Trade Commission has set up a call center for tips and complaints.

On top of structural problems at the SEC, agency officials individually made mistakes in handling several recent cases, sometimes violating agency rules.

Members of Schapiro's management team said they recognized problems with the system for handling whistleblowers shortly after taking over.

"There was no uniformity to it. Every division and office had its own system of recording, tracking or handling tips and complaints. That system was pretty rudimentary," said Steve Cohen, the official tasked by Schapiro to overhaul the agency's tips, complaints and whistleblower program. "We're already working to acquire and deploy technology that centralizes all of the agency's tips and complaints so they can be sorted, reviewed, analyzed and tracked."

No shortage of witnesses

The SEC's struggles were underlined over the past two years with the revelation of two huge Ponzi schemes.

In the case of Bernard L. Madoff, whistleblowers had provided credible information to various SEC units for years.

The most prominent of these informants, a Boston financial analyst named Harry Markopolos, contacted the enforcement division on numerous occasions, according to the SEC's inspector general.

In one instance, Markopolos provided a detailed explanation of why Madoff's business was probably a fraud. Enforcement officials listened, but they dismissed him in their internal discussions. Two former enforcement officials told the inspector general that they discounted Markopolos's information because he was not an insider in Madoff's company.

Then, a few months after the Madoff scheme exploded into the headlines, the SEC exposed a second large Ponzi scheme, run by R. Allen Stanford. But that happened five years after an insider went to the SEC, warning that Stanford might be conducting a fraudulent business.

Leyla Wydler had been a vice president at Stanford's Houston-based company when she first started asking her supervisors tough questions about what the firm did with clients' money, according to her testimony before Congress last year. Her superiors were evasive, and she ultimately was fired.

After that, she went to the National Association of Securities Dealers, a private industry regulator overseen by the SEC. The NASD dismissed her concerns. Then in September 2004, she contacted the SEC's Fort Worth office, according to her congressional testimony. She followed up with a letter to an official there, questioning whether clients' money had been invested in the way Stanford said.

She never heard from the SEC again -- until January 2009, days before the SEC finally filed a case against Stanford, according to her testimony. The agency wanted to know more about her allegations. An inspector general report from June 2009 said the SEC began looking into Stanford years earlier but struggled to build a case against him.

Turning in the Tipster

In one case, it was the SEC that blew the whistle on Peter Sivere, an informant.

Sivere worked in the compliance office of New York investment bank J.P. Morgan Chase. As part of a team helping the bank furnish documents related to a 2004 SEC probe into suspected illegal trading, he found an e-mail that he thought was incriminating.

According to a subsequent report by the SEC inspector general, the e-mail said J.P. Morgan was knowingly providing hundreds of millions of dollars in credit to a firm "in the business of day trading mutual funds" -- which is illegal.

Sivere asked his superiors if this e-mail had been turned over to the SEC but did not get an answer. Instead, he was taken off the SEC project, according to the inspector general report. Sivere accessed his superiors' e-mail accounts to retrieve relevant e-mails, then contacted the SEC. He told the agency that he had relevant documents and asked whether he could receive a reward. He was told he was not eligible, but he turned over the documents anyway.

Sivere informed J.P. Morgan that he had contacted the SEC.

The company fired him, partly on the grounds that he had "sought payment from the SEC to provide documents and information to them outside of the normal scope of their investigation," according to a letter company lawyers wrote defending his dismissal. J.P. Morgan declined to comment for this article.

Sivere was shocked to learn that J.P. Morgan knew he had inquired about a bounty. He had been promised that his discussions with the SEC were confidential.

An SEC internal probe found that an investigator working on the case disclosed Sivere's information to J.P. Morgan's lawyers, violating the agency's confidentiality rules. The inspector general recommended that the SEC official who made the disclosure be referred for disciplinary action. None was taken, according to agency documents.

Retraining the Watchdog

Cohen, who is overhauling the SEC's whistleblower practices, said a database, jury-rigged from existing technology, will be in place this month to centralize all tips and complaints. Officials said that by the end of 2010, they hope to develop technology that would not only centralize the data but also automatically analyze them for patterns to help officials prioritize cases.

Currently, the SEC is setting procedures for responding to whistleblowers and is creating an office of market intelligence to coordinate how the agency's various units respond to tips.

The agency also wants to be able to reward whistleblowers, which it can only do now for insider-trading cases. The SEC has requested that Congress pass legislation giving it the ability to offer financial rewards to people who provide evidence of violations of securities law. ""

Source of Article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/20/AR2010012005125_2.html

The SEC Gets Tips that Will inevitable Cost Shareholder Millions and they HAVE No System in place to really handle these tips, yet they act like they are taking in Tips and Handling them. The Iviewit Technologies Case will one day explode into Billions in Loss and the SEC has ignored the Eliot Bernstein SEC Complaint - and has know of the Involvement of Proskauer Rose way before the Standford Billions were lost. More on the Iviewit Stolen Patent and what Companies are affected go to http://www.deniedpatent.com/ and www.Iviewit.TV

Why is there no Accountability for the SEC Insiders that let these Billion Dollar Scams Happen then after the Scam and many innocent investors lose everything, the SEC insider gets a a Really Good Job at a high profile law firm. And no one seems to raise an eyebrow.

All these Billion Dollar Investment schemes seem to have the same thing in common. They have a Mega Law Firm behind them helping them, and the Law firms such as Proskauer Rose seem to have No Accountability for the Damage they due to investors.

In the Stanford investment Scandal SEC Sjoblom went to Proskauer Rose - talk about a conflict of Interest - Proskauer Rose seems to be behind a whole lot of these Billion Dollar Scams and they never seem to be held accountable.

In the Dreier Scandal there was Proskauer Rose LLP Attorney Sheila Gowan.

In the Madoff Scandal and there is said to a woman who fled the SEC to the Law Firm Proskauer Rose and that she is fingered all over the SEC report on Madoff failures.

So the SEC seems to hire these lawyers and let them run these scams and there seems to be no REAL regulators of any kind for the ones in place seem to be part of the organized RICO Enterprise of Criminal Lawyers and Law Firms and the US court System does not seem to be able to do anything about them.

Is the SEC Liable for Billions to Trillions of Investors money when it is Obviously, Easily proved that the SEC Ignored TIPS for Years upon Years in all these cases. Time to Sue the SEC. This Government Agent should not be above the law, it is as if they let this stuff go on - on Purpose for pay offs and cushy jobs... and year after year the same scheme plays out and no one seems to be able to bring Justice, Accountability, or Real Action from the SEC to do what the Duty of the SEC is....

Links

Sheila M. Gowan - Proskauer Rose - Iviewit
http://www.free-press-release.com/news-iviewit-trillion-fed-suit-defendant-proskauer-rose-sued-in-global-class-action-re-stanford-ponzi-1252249099.html

Standford - Proskauer Rose - Thomas Sjoblom
http://www.proskauersucks.com/2010/01/thomas-v-sjoblom-allen-stanford.html

Madoff - Proskauer Rose
http://www.proskauerrosesucks.com/2010/02/proskauer-rose-madoff-mary-shapiro-sec.html

Banks face Milan fraud charges - Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, UBS and Hypo Real Estate Holding's Depfa Bank

"" MILAN, Italy -- Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, UBS and Hypo Real Estate Holding's Depfa Bank unit have been charged with fraud linked to the sale of derivatives to the city of Milan.

Judge Simone Luerti scheduled the trial of the four firms, 11 bankers and two former city officials for May 6, Prosecutor Alfredo Robledo said after a hearing in Milan yesterday. The banks allegedly misled the city over swaps that adjusted interest payments on $2.3 billion of bonds sold in 2005.

Prosecutors across Italy are investigating banks as local and national government agencies face potential losses of 2.5 billion euros on derivatives, lawyers say. The Milan probe may also affect cases as far away as the United States, where securities firms have faced charges for price-fixing and bid-rigging in the sale of derivatives to municipalities, though not for fraud, according to former regulator Christopher "Kit" Taylor.

"This case could have repercussions over here if the trial showed deliberate intent," said Taylor, a former executive director of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, the national regulator of the municipal-bond market. "What happened in Europe was the continuation of a pattern in the US."

JPMorgan is "vigorously" defending its position against the charges, the New York-based firm said in a statement. "The employees involved in the transactions acted with the highest degree of professionalism and entirely appropriately."

UBS and "its exponents are confident that they will be able to demonstrate, in the course of the trial, that no criminal plot was conceived," the Zurich-based bank said in a separate statement.

Source
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/banks_face_milan_fraud_charges_I0S6vT78W1NjZ6vYKdsXTJ?sms_ss=ema#ixzz0iZNwfl04

Whistleblower Peter Sivere Provides Affidavit to OSHA and DOL - JP Morgan -JP Morgan Securities

DOL OSHA asked that Peter Sivere provide an affidavit to them after they "heard" that the SEC said Peter Sivere requested payment for documents and information.

Click Here for Peter Siver Affidavit

""... On September 30th 2004, the Wall Street Journal.. published an article entitled Trading Class Action Suit Widens. The WSJ articl state, in part, that: Mr. Stern (of Canary Capital) asked a J.P. Morgan Banker who had been working with Mr. Stern's family for a loan to finance his hedge funds trading in the PBHG funds.

The Suit contends that Mr. Stern explained his trading systme "in detail" to the executive.
According to the lawsuit, J.P. Morgan Securities made loans to business entities tied to Canary totalling as much as $105 Million. These Loans were made to finance trades that would make Canary money when the price of PBHG funds declined.

This Subject of the WSJ article appears to be consistent with the information in the Kelleher Email.

... After the September 30th, 2004 WSJ article was published, I continued to do strategic surveillance together with my interim monitoring duties.

.. On or about October 5, 2004, I located an October 4, 2004 email in which a JPM executive referring to the September 30, 2004 WSJ article, inquires about JMP's relationship with Canary.

The Email indicates that Mr. Palmer and Davis Polk and Wardell had previously indicated that JPM had no knowledge of improper trading practices. In a response to the E-mail Mr. Palmer acknowledged that JPM assisted Canary by providing a line of credit to finance Canary's mutual fund trading.

On October 6, 2004, I located an E-mail in which JPM's President and Chief Operating Officer asked JPM's Co-General Counsel about JPM's Relationship with Canary.

On October 7, 2004, I was Terminated for Alleged inappropriate use of the firms E-mail and for not cooperating with an internal fraud investigation. The Emails referred to above were on my desk at JPM at the time I was terminated. I was not permitted to return to my desk after I was terminated... ""

Read this Full Document Click HERE

Peter Z. Sivere v. JP Morgan Chase - Department of Labor - OSHA - SEC - Canary Capital - Davis Polk - JPM Chase

August 2005 Archives

Inside the JP Morgan, Peter Sivere Whistleblower Case

"Civil Action to Protect Against Retaliation in Fraud Cases"

Lisa M. Wells - JPM Chase

Sarbanes - Oxley

Jamie Dimon

Davis Polk Investigations

When Loans were made and What We did about it...

JP Morgan provided a $150 Milloin Line of Credit to a Canary Entity Structured for Canary a series of short equity basket swaps that allowed Canary to hedge its long position in third party mutual funds.

Plaintiffs allege that JPM has liability as financier of some Canary Market timeing and late trading. ... Davis Polk seems to have claimed, in their investigation that JPM had no knowledge of late trading or improper timing...

Heritage Bank One ..

What are the Conflicts of Interest, Attorneys Protecting Each Other.. Isn't Davis Polk connected to Proskauer Rose Somehow??

Canary Capital Litigation

Investment Banking Exposure

TS&S / Investment Management Exposure

Click Here for Full Document

J. Huntley Palmer Lead In House Attorney JP Morgan - Whistleblower Peter Sivere

J. Huntley Palmer was the lead in house attorney at JPM, JP Morgan when J. Huntley Palmer removed 8 people from Whistleblower Peter Sivere's team and replaced them with Davis Polk Team. Looks like he is on the short list for US Attorney in Philadelphia. Sources say his name was one of several submitted to the White House for consideration.

"" Posted on Thu, Jan. 7, 2010
Specter blamed for delay in Obama's naming U.S. att'y

By MICHAEL HINKELMAN
Philadelphia Daily News
hinkelm@phillynews.com
215-854-2656

By this date eight years ago, the then-new U.S. attorney in Philadelphia, Patrick Meehan, had been on the job almost four months, after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate in September 2001.

Now, almost a year into President Obama's term, there is not even a nominee for the post. And the appointment of a new U.S. attorney, which is considered a plum assignment, is not believed to be imminent, sources familiar with the process say.

Some blame the ambling pace on unusual political circumstances.

Traditionally, the state's senior senator of the president's party, in this case Sen. Bob Casey, makes a recommendation to the White House. However, when longtime Republican Sen. Arlen Specter switched parties last April and became a Democrat, that complicated the selection process, sources said.

Sources said that Casey and Specter could not agree on a single candidate to recommend to Obama, who makes the formal nomination.

An initial screening process last summer produced a list of 20 names for U.S. attorney here.
With Casey and Specter unable to settle on one, several names were jointly submitted to the White House last month, sources said.

A source with knowledge of the matter declined to say how many names were submitted or to identify them.

Among those thought to be on a short list, sources said, are Cheryl A. Krause, a partner at Dechert LLP; James J. Eisenhower, a partner at Schnader Harrison Segal and Lewis LLP; and J. Huntley Palmer of JP Morgan Chase & Co. All were once federal prosecutors here.
Krause, Eisenhower and Palmer declined to comment for this story.

Justice Department spokeswoman Melissa Schwartz would neither confirm nor deny whether the Justice Department had received any names from the White House or begun vetting any candidates.

Larry Smar, a spokesman for Casey, said, "As of right now, I don't have a sense of when a nomination will be made."

A spokeswoman for Specter declined to comment.

The U.S. attorney here - one of 93 in the country - brings criminal and civil actions on behalf of the federal government in the nine-county area of southeastern Pennsylvania.

The office has prosecuted a number of high-profile public-corruption cases in recent years, including that of former state Sen. Vince Fumo and former City Councilman Rick Mariano.
Former U.S. Attorney Meehan resigned his post in July 2008. The current U.S. attorney, Michael L. Levy, was named by the Justice Department on an interim basis last May to serve as U.S. attorney until Obama nominated a successor.

When the White House receives a senatorial recommendation, it is sent to the Justice Department for vetting.

Schwartz said the vetting process - which includes background checks and interviews by political and career officials - can typically take up to three months.
Once a finalist is determined, that person is interviewed by Attorney General Eric Holder, who makes a recommendation to Obama.

After Obama makes the formal nomination, it is sent to the Senate for confirmation.
And there's no certainty that a nominee - given the current partisan rancor in the Senate - will win timely confirmation.

Case in point: New Jersey's new U.S. attorney, Paul Fishman, was recommended to Obama last February and was nominated by the White House in May, but not confirmed by the Senate until Oct. 7.

According to the Web site Main Justice, an independent news organization that covers the Justice Department, 31 new U.S. attorneys have been confirmed by the Senate, 12 more have been nominated by Obama and another 23 names have been recommended by senators to Obama for U.S. attorney posts throughout the country.

None of those confirmed or nominated to date are holdovers from the Bush administration, although two Bush holdovers have been recommended to Oba-ma. ""

Source
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/80882337.html?cmpid=15585797