The Justice Department today named Craig S. Morford to serve as Middle Tennessee's U.S. Attorney on an interim basis. He replaces Jim Vines, who left his position at the end of September.
Morford is currently First Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of Ohio, and he has held various federal prosecutorial positions in Cleveland since 1987. In 2002, he headed the prosecution team in the trial of U.S. Rep. Jim Traficant (D-Ohio) on federal corruption charges, gaining a conviction that sent the flamboyant politician to prison for an eight-year term.
In 2004, then-U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft appointed Morford to lead an internal review of how prosecutors handled the case of three men accused of being part of a terrorist "sleeper cell" in the Detroit area. A judge eventually threw out the convictions of the men due to prosecutorial misconduct.
Morford holds a law degree from Valparaiso University School of Law and a B.A. from Hope College.
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