Four federal prosecutors were recently given Attorney General Awards for their work securing convictions in several Somali pirates' cases, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. Managing Assistant U.S. Attorney Benjamin L. Hatch, Justice Department Trial Attorney Paul G. Casey, and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Joseph E. DePadilla and Brian J. Samuels were each awarded The John Marshall Award for Trial of Litigation. That was for prosecuting 14 sea-based Somali pirates and one land-based Somali pirate leader in the capture and murders of four Americans aboard the sailboat Quest off the coast of East Africa on Feb. 22, 2011. U.S....
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