Herb Kohl: “I want to voice my support today for Glenn Fine, who would truly be an outstanding Inspector General at the Department…”

“I want to voice my support today for Glenn Fine, who would truly be an outstanding Inspector General at the Department of Justice. As you know, the Inspector General is charged with investigating waste, fraud, abuse and corruption. As such, it is a position of critical importance that we should have filled before adjourning for the year to ensure accountable and effective oversight of the DOJ. Mr. Fine has been dealing with corruption ever since the Harvard- Boston College basketball game on December 16, 1978, in which he scored 19 points and had 14 assists--perhaps his best performance in college-- only to discover later that this particular game was part of a notorious point-shaving scandal. No doubt this first-hand experience drove him in his later quest to weed out corruption at the Department of Justice. More seriously, though, Mr. Fine has served in a variety of professional roles and always in an exemplary fashion. He is currently the Director of the Special Investigations and Review Unit in the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General, where he has supervised a variety of sensitive internal investigations, including the FBI's handling of the Aldrich Ames case. He also worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, where he prosecuted more than 35 criminal jury trials. His academic credentials are stellar as well. He is a Rhodes Scholar and he was graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School.…”