(18 Nov 2024)
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New York – 18 November 2024
1. Med to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland arriving
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Merrick Garland, U.S. Attorney General:
"Over the past four years, this office has received public recognition and rightfully so for incredibly important cases, for disrupting Sinaloa Cartel for driving down violent crime, for successful prosecutions of the CEOs of the largest cryptocurrencies in the world and for relentlessly pursuing public corruption without fear or favor. But this is just a sliver of the work you do and I wish that the public could see all the rest of the work you do, the stuff that doesn’t make it to the headlines the day in and day out work that you do. The time you take away from your families. The extraordinarily long days you spend and the risks that we all take. They would be extremely proud of you. See what true patriots all of you are. Now I want to say, well, I care very much about the work that you do. I care even more about the way in which you do that work. Yes, you are aggressive prosecutors, aggressive investigators, aggressive attorneys in service of the public. But in everything you do, you do it the right way. You follow the rule of law. You follow the principles of federal prosecution and deciding who you should prosecute and who you shouldn’t prosecute. Every day you come to work with one job only to do the right thing all day long."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Merrick Garland, U.S. Attorney General:
"Now for myself, I may be coming to the end of my tenure at the Justice Department. But I know that all of you will continue. You will continue in the department’s mission was always been its mission to uphold the rule of law, keep our country safe and to protect civil rights. You, the career lawyers of this district, the career lawyers of all the U.S. attorney’s offices, the career all lawyers of the Justice Department as a whole, you are the institutional backbone of this department. You are the historical memory. This department. You are the heart and soul of the department. You are the Justice Department. I could not be more proud of you and I could not be more grateful for all of the work that you have done to protect the American people. Thank you." ++SHOT CONTINUES++
4. Med to wide of Garland at the podium, people standing up and clapping
STORYLINE:
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday.
Garland praised the Southern District of New York office for earning public recognition for its important cases, including disrupting the Sinaloa Cartel, reducing violent crime, prosecuting major cryptocurrency CEOs, and pursuing public corruption
"I wish the public could see all the rest of the work you do—the stuff that doesn’t make it to the headlines—the day-in-and-day-out work that you do, the time you take away from your families, the extraordinarily long days you spend, and the risks that we all take," Garland said.
Garland said that he may be coming to the end of of his tenure at the Justice Department but he knows that the department’s mission has always been to uphold the rule of law, keep the country safe, and protect civil rights.
"You are the historical memory of this department. You are its heart and soul. You are the Justice Department. I could not be more proud of you, and I could not be more grateful for all the work you have done to protect the American people," Garland added.
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