“It isn’t easy getting someone confirmed before the election,” Klobuchar said in an interview after the vote. “So just because there’s a bunch of them that are held up right now, I wanted to make sure that we put forward someone who was a stellar nominee.”
Smith congratulated Provinzino in a statement and said her “decades of experience advancing justice and protecting the rule of law will make her an exceptionally well-qualified” judge.
For the latter prosecution, Provinzino received the Attorney General’s David Margolis Award for Exceptional Service, the top award given by the Justice Department to its employees.
“I am so proud that, after a long and distinguished career as a prosecutor, Laura Provinzino will now serve our community as a federal judge,” U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger said in a statement. “We are fortunate that she will continue to serve the cause of justice in this new and critical role.”
Provinzino, 48, was one of three prosecutors who secured Lazzaro’s guilty verdict. The businessman and former Republican activist was sentenced to 21 years in prison on charges involving five 15- to 16-year-old girls who he paid to have sex with him.
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