11.09.07 - Yale Alum, Enron Foe Campbell is New U.S. Attorney
Apparently, you can go home again, professionally speaking, if you are a
successful federal prosecutor. Benton Campbell, a boyish looking 41-year-old Yale grad,
returned to his old stamping grounds on Long Island and in Brooklyn recently when he was
named the new U.S. attorney for the Eastern District.
Campbell made a name for himself nationally, first helping to prosecute the Enron case and,
more recently, serving in Washington as chief of staff to the head of the Justice Department's entire criminal division.
Before leaving for the Enron task force in 2003, Campbell investigated the crash of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island and successfully
prosecuted Russian organized crime, Chinese street gangs and a multimillionaire gas station magnate responsible for two murders.
Joseph Conway, a prominent Garden City attorney and former head of the Long Island office of the Eastern District, says,
"Ben is one of the few people who listens to you carefully, can disagree with you strongly, but leaves you with the feeling his
judgment is fair."
Campbell says he expects to increase the number of prosecutors in the office and expand ongoing cases against white-collar
and organized crime, street gangs, narcotics and terrorism. When he was the deputy chief of the Eastern District's Criminal Division,
Campbell successfully managed 100 of the office's 150 prosecutors.
- Robert Kessler:
Newsday Staff Writer
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