Janice fedarcyk biography

Janice Fedarcyk.
Janice K. Fedarcyk retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where she served for 25 years.
Janice K. Fedarcyk, the first woman to head this flagship office, but by doing so she has quietly become the highest-ranking woman in “the field.”.

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For the first time in the history of the FBI, a woman will lead its New York Division.

Director Robert S. Mueller, III named Janice Fedarcyk as assistant director in charge of the FBI’s New York Division on Thursday, a promotion that places the 23-year FBI veteran in charge of its largest division.

In her new position, Fedarcyk will have six special agents in charge -- the agents who run FBI field offices -- reporting to her. She will be overseeing 2,000 agents in New York.

“Jan Fedarcyk brings both a strong national security and criminal investigative background from her current assignment as head of the Philadelphia Division and from her work at FBI Headquarters, where she managed terrorist financing investigations, served at the National Counter terrorism Center, and oversaw investigations of online exploitation of children,” Mueller said in a statement.

Fedarcyk entered the FBI in 1987 where she investigated organized crime, drugs, money laundering and gangs in Los Angeles. She was promoted to FBI Headquarters nine years later were she coordinated b

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The F.B.I.’s New York office, located on the high floors of a federal building in downtown Manhattan, has long been the bureau’s largest, home to more than a thousand special agents with responsibility for investigating everyone from Brooklyn Mafia families and Wall Street fraudsters to Somali pirates and branches of al-Qaeda. Not only is its new chief, Janice K. Fedarcyk, the first woman to head this flagship office, but by doing so she has quietly become the highest-ranking woman in “the field.” It’s been a long time coming, both for the F.B.I., which began accepting women as field agents only in 1972, and for Fedarcyk, a petite, crisp 53-year-old who grew up a nomadic “navy brat” and began her law-enforcement career leading dogs in the Reno, Nevada, police K-9 unit. She joined the F.B.I. in 1987, investigating street gangs in Los Angeles, missing children in Baltimore, and terrorists from the Washington, D.C., headquarters, before taking over first the Philadelphia field office and now New York. Killing Osama bin Laden, she says, doesn’t make her job keeping America safe much e

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Janice Fedarcyk, the fist woman to head the N.Y. FBI office, who oversaw some major terrorists, mob and Wall Street probes, is retiring to enter the private sector, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Janice Fedarcyk, assistant director in charge of the New York bureau, plans to start a consulting firm in Washington D.C., where her husband, a retired FBI agent, works.

During her tenure, Fedarcyk’s office cracked down on insider trading and computer attacks.

Some of the prosecutors involved in the insider-trading investigation have also left the federal government for the private sector, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Before coming to New York, Fedarcyk had headed up the Philadelphia office. She began her career with the FBI in 1987 in Los Angeles.

In New York, she oversaw:

The investigation and arrest of Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, al Shabaab leader for providing material support to al Qaeda.
Processing and dissemination of all intelligence following the Bin Laden raid in Pakistan.
Arrest of leadership and members of Anonymous