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Originally posted by bentbryan
Congrats to Mass. for electing their first criminal defense scumba..err..attorney as governor!  |
He was also Asst. Attorney General under Clinton....
From Wikipedia (keywords "Deval Patrick")
In 1994, Clinton nominated Patrick to be Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. As an Assistant Attorney General, Patrick worked on a range of issues, including racial profiling, police misconduct, fair lending enforcement, human trafficking, and discrimination based on gender and disability. He led what was before 9/11 the largest federal criminal investigation in history as co-chair of the Task Force appointed to address arsons of Black churches and synagogues in the South. He also played a key role as an advisor to post-apartheid South Africa during this time and helped to create their civil rights laws[5].