2017-08-26 07:00:00
The FBI’s top dog in Louisiana is leaving for Chicago.
Jeffrey Sallet, who has been special agent in charge of the agency’s New Orleans division since 2015, was named Friday by FBI Director Christopher Wray to head up the Chicago division.
FBI Director James B. Comey has named Jeffrey S. Sallet as the special agent in charge of the New Orleans Division. Mr. Sallet most recently served as the section chief of the public corruption and civil rights section in the Criminal Investigative Division, where he had oversight and responsibility over the public corruption, international corruption, international human rights, and civil rights investigative programs.
Sallet will report to Chicago in November, an FBI news release said.
The new head of the New Orleans division, which oversees the bureau’s operations around the state, has not been announced.
The bureau routinely rotates the leadership at its field offices; it’s unusual for a special agent in charge to stay in one post for more than three years.
Sallet follows in the footsteps of his predecessor in New Orleans, Michael Anderson, who left his post in New Orleans for Chicago shortly before Sallet’s arrival. Anderson announced his retirement this week.
Prior to arriving in New Orleans, Sallet oversaw public corruption and civil rights probes out of FBI headquarters, and he has spent much of his career investigating corruption and organized crime.
An accountant who joined the FBI in 1997, Sallet served as the case agent in the investigation of Joseph Massino, a former boss of the Bonanno organized crime family in New York. He was credited with engineering a plan that used seized financial documents to implicate lower-level operatives.
In the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Sallet was tasked with tracking al-Qaida’s financial assets.
In New Orleans, Sallet was a vocal advocate of increased counter-terrorism measures in the city, particularly around major events such as Carnival and the NBA All-Star Game.
In interviews, Sallet has harped on a need for better video technology and lighting around Bourbon Street and other potential targets, along with stronger coordination with local law enforcement and a campaign for citizen reporting of potential threats.
Sallet had intimate experience with terrorism response prior to coming to New Orleans. On the day of the 9/11 attacks, he was stationed at the New York field office, just blocks from the World Trade Center. He also was running in the Boston Marathon in April 2013 as two bombs detonated near the finish line ahead of him.
In Louisiana, Sallet also played a role in the investigation of the police shooting that left Alton Sterling dead outside a Baton Rouge convenience store last year. He was front and center in May when federal authorities announced that no civil rights charges would be brought in connection with Sterling’s death.
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