Trump intends to name Jessie Liu, US attorney for DC, to top Treasury Department sanctions post

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump announced plans Tuesday to nominate Ms Jessie Liu, the US attorney for the District of Columbia, to become the Treasury Department's under-secretary for terrorism and financial crimes, leading the administration's aggressive use of economic sanctions as a national security and foreign policy tool.

Ms Liu came to the post after working on Mr Trump's transition team and serving as the Treasury Department's deputy general counsel in 2017. The office tookover several Mr Mueller prosecutions and referrals, including those of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn and political confidante Roger Stone.

Locally, Ms Liu has scrambled with District police to combat a spike in homicides, responding to back-to-back years of double-digit percentage increases in killings by prosecuting more defendants for gun and drug crimes in federal rather than local court.

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