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	U.S. Attorney Names Key Lieutenants By Mary Moore Boston Business Journal January 7, 2010 http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2010/01/04/daily64.html United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz has appointed James F. Lang as the chief of the Criminal Division, John T. McNeil as the deputy chief of the Criminal Division and Nadine Pellegrini as the chief of the Major Crimes Unit. In addition, James B. Farmer has been appointed to a new position: counsel to the U.S. attorney. Farmer will also continue to serve as chief of the anti-Terrorism and National Security Unit. Since 1985, Farmer has been a federal prosecutor in Boston and, since 1995, has served as criminal chief of the U.S. Attorney's Office as well as the Chief of the Anti-Terrorism and National Security Unit. Prior to that, he served as United States Attorney in Massachusetts — from June 2001 to September 2001. From 2001 to 2005, he served as chief of the Organized Crime Strike Force of the office. Since January 2008, Farmer has worked on a project to determine whether a crime was committed when the CIA destroyed recordings of interrogations of certain terrorism detainees. Before joining the Justice Department, Farmer was an associate at Goodwin, Procter & Hoar in Boston. Lang joined the U.S. Attorney's Office in 1993, serving as an assistant United States attorney in the Major Crimes Unit for nine years. He became an expert in prosecuting violent crimes, gang violence and firearms offenses, and he received the Department of Justice's Director's Award in 1997. He led the armed extortion prosecution in U.S. v. Derek Capozzi and the prosecution of a conspiracy to rob an armored car facility in U.S. v. Carmelo Merlino, et al. In 2002, Lang was appointed as the chief of the Major Crimes Unit and, in June 2009, he was appointed an Acting Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, overseeing major crimes, narcotics and organized crime cases. McNeil has served in the U.S. Attorney's Office since 1999 and, since 2004, he has served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Public Corruption and Special Prosecutions Unit. He was the lead prosecutor in the case against former state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson, Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner, former Massachusetts speaker of the house Thomas Finneran, former Boston Police officers Roberto Pulido, Nelson Carrasquillo, Carlos Pizarro, Edgardo Rodriguez and Jose Ortiz, and former Malden narcotics detective David Jordan. McNeil also brought the first federal investigation of clergy sexual abuse of children, and reached the first criminal settlement in the nation with a Catholic diocese. Since June 2009, McNeil has served as an acting deputy chief of the Criminal Division overseeing white collar crime cases. Pellegrini joined the U.S. Attorney's Office in 1991, serving as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Major Crimes Unit. In 2000, she was appointed Deputy Chief of the Major Crimes Unit and has served as Acting Chief since June 2009. She became an expert in prosecuting wildlife protection cases, as well as immigration cases, identity theft, false statement, Social Security fraud, postal theft, and child exploitation, among others. Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney's Office, Pellegrini was the Chief of Special Prosecutions for the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office.
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