{"id":65076,"date":"2015-02-10T10:23:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T16:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=65076"},"modified":"2015-02-10T10:23:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T16:23:36","slug":"u-s-attorney-purdon-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=65076","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Attorney Purdon steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/purdontimothy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-65077\" alt=\"purdontimothy\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/purdontimothy.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Timothy Purdon is stepping down as U.S. attorney for North Dakota.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 46-year-old says he&#8217;s returning to private practice and will be establishing an office in Bismarck for a national law firm. He would not name the company.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Purdon tells The Associated Press that his office has made &#8220;tremendous progress&#8221; in the past 4 1\/2 years on key priorities, including improving safety on American Indian reservations and tackling crime in the state&#8217;s oil patch.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 President Barack Obama nominated Purdon to the post of U.S. attorney on Feb. 4, 2010. Purdon was confirmed by the Senate on Aug. 5, 2010. He is North Dakota&#8217;s 18th U.S. attorney.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Purdon&#8217;s last day is March 12. Assistant federal prosecutor Chris Myers will take over as acting U.S. attorney for North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Timothy Purdon is stepping down as U.S. attorney for North Dakota. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 46-year-old says he&#8217;s returning to private practice and will be establishing an office in Bismarck for a national law firm. He would not name the company. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Purdon tells The Associated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65078,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65076\/revisions\/65078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}