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City Investigation Chief Garnett Exiting For Key Job With U.S. Attorney

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 10/18/21

Less than a week after issuing a blistering report that accused Mayor de Blasio of using his NYPD security detail like a 'concierge service' to transport family and friends who were not on official city business, Investigation Commissioner Margaret Garnett announced that she would be leaving Nov. 10 to take the second-ranking job in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan.

Her appointment was announced by Damian Williams, who just three days earlier had begun his tenure as U.S. Attorney in what is considered one of the premier law-enforcement agencies in the nation. He said in a statement that Ms. Garnett in a previous 12-year stint there "led some of the office's most-important investigations and prosecutions." He added that her "storied career in public service leaves no doubt that she will be an exceptional Deputy U.S. Attorney."

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