United States Attorney Tom Colantuono announced today that Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Laplante has accepted the position of First Assistant United States Attorney. Joseph Laplante is a career prosecutor from Nashua, New Hampshire who has worked in the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Hampshire since February 2002. Prior to that, he worked at the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts in Boston, the DOJ Campaign Financing Task Force in Washington, D.C., and the Homicide Unit of the NH Attorney General's Office.

The First Assistant U.S. Attorney reports directly to U.S. Attorney Colantuono, and assists him with running the day-to-day activities of the Office's Criminal, Civil, Appellate and Administrative Divisions.

"Joe has served as Supervisor of the Violent Crime Section in our Criminal Division and is lead attorney for the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force," said US Attorney Colantuono. "AUSA Laplante is an important part of this Office's Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) program. Working with federal, state, county, and local agents, he has prepared and prosecuted many of the PSN gun cases brought in this District since the inception of our PSN program in May, 2002 and is responsible for taking more than 100 guns off the streets of New Hampshire and imprisoning many defendants for federal firearms offenses."

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