New Orleans FBI chief told to leave
FBI chief loses post in N.O.
Talk of mayor’s race leads to transfer
The Times-Picayune
Saturday, April 26, 2008
By Brendan McCarthy
James Bernazzani, the head of New Orleans’ FBI office, a silver-maned, tough-talking, Harvard-educated, larger-than-life crimefighter sent to squash public corruption in a jurisdiction notorious for it, was reassigned to the agency’s national headquarters Friday after he publicly flirted with a run for mayor.
The abrupt transfer marks the end of Bernazzani’s three-year tenure in New Orleans, a tumultuous period during which he carved out a prominent niche as the face and voice of a very public war on corruption.
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