Full Text of SR0071 103rd General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate wish to | 3 | | congratulate United States Attorney for the Northern District | 4 | | of Illinois John R. Lausch Jr. on his upcoming retirement; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, John Lausch was born in 1970; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, John Lausch received his Bachelor of Arts cum | 7 | | laude from Harvard University and his Juris Doctor cum laude | 8 | | from the Northwestern University School of Law; and | 9 | | WHEREAS, While in law school, John Lausch clerked for | 10 | | Michael Stephen Kanne of the United States Court of Appeals | 11 | | for the Seventh Circuit; and | 12 | | WHEREAS, John Lausch worked as an assistant United States | 13 | | attorney for the Northern District of Illinois from 1999 to | 14 | | 2010, where he tried more than 20 jury cases involving | 15 | | racketeering, fraud, narcotics, extortion, and firearm | 16 | | offenses; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, During this time, John Lausch also served as | 18 | | deputy chief in the narcotics and gangs section for several | 19 | | years and helped lead the district's anti-gang and Project | 20 | | Safe Neighborhoods programs; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, In 2010, John Lausch left the Office of the U.S. | 2 | | Attorney and went into private practice until 2017; and | 3 | | WHEREAS, In November 2017, John Lausch returned to the | 4 | | Office of the U.S. Attorney in the role of United States | 5 | | Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, As the top federal law enforcement official for | 7 | | the Northern District of Illinois, he oversaw a region that | 8 | | included 18 counties, the City of Chicago, and nine million | 9 | | people; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, As the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of | 11 | | Illinois, John Lausch handled several high-profile public | 12 | | corruption investigations that led to indictments and | 13 | | convictions of many prominent elected and public officials; | 14 | | and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, John Lausch has announced his intention to retire | 16 | | from the Office of the U.S. Attorney and return to the private | 17 | | sector in the spring of 2023; therefore, be it
| 18 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL | 19 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we congratulate United | 20 | | States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois John R. |
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| 1 | | Lausch Jr. on his upcoming retirement and thank him for his | 2 | | years of dedicated service to the State of Illinois in | 3 | | battling public corruption; and be it further
| 4 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 5 | | presented to John Lausch as an expression of our gratitude and | 6 | | esteem.
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