Lynch taps Stacey Veroni to lead criminal division
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PROVIDENCE -- Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch today announced he's named prosecutor Stacey Veroni to lead the Department of Attorney General's criminal division. Veroni, an assistant attorney general, will be division chief, succeeding Assistant Attorney General Alan R. Goulart, who last week won state Senate approval to become a Traffic Tribunal magistrate. The attorney general's office said Veroni is the first woman in the state's history to lead the division.  Stacey Veroni/ Journal file photo “This is a proud day for our office, for Stacey Veroni, who has earned this position by never shrinking from a difficult case or neglecting to support her colleagues who were handling difficult cases or going through tough times in their lives, and for me personally,” Lynch said in the statement. “She is the rare person who is as good at managing others as she is at her primary calling, which, given her exemplary track record, is obviously prosecuting cases. Many exceptionally talented women work in this office. Many more have preceded them. None, however, has blazed the same trail as Stacey. I look forward to relying on her good counsel over the next two and a half years of my term.” -- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney Veroni started in the Attorney General’s office on the same day as Lynch in September 1994. She graduated from Boston College in 1990 and is a 1993 graduate of Suffolk University Law School, according to a news release from the attorrney general's office, and began her career in 1993 in the state judiciary, where she and Lynch served in the law clerk pool helping both Supreme and Superior Court judges. Veroni worked in the office of then-Attorney General Jeffrey B. Pine in 1994, working in the criminal division’s district court, grand jury, and domestic violence and sexual assault units, and later became chief of the domestic violence and sexual Assault unit under then-Attorney General Sheldon Whitehouse. For Lynch's office, Veroni has prosecuted cases and served as chief of the Washington County office as well as the narcotics and organized crime unit. Since July 2006, she's served as deputy chief of the criminal division. She's also been on the attorney general’s domestic violence task force and is a Salve Regina University adjunct faculty member. 
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