(Reuters) – President Joe Biden on Tuesday nominated Damian Williams as the U.S. attorney for Manhattan, one of the most important prosecutor posts in the country, the Justice Department said.
If Williams wins Senate confirmation, he will be the first Black man to oversee the federal prosecutor’s office in the New York City borough.
He is currently chief of a securities task force in the prosecutor’s office.
(Reporting by Jan Wolfe in Boston; Editing by Leslie Adler and Peter Cooney)
