FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CRM FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1995 (202) 616-2771 TDD (202) 514-1888 ELI ROSENBAUM NAMED DIRECTOR OF OFFICE OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Eli Rosenbaum has been named director of the Office of Special Investigations (OSI), Jo Ann Harris, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division, announced today. OSI is the unit of the Criminal Division that identifies and takes legal action against those who participated in prosecutive activities of the Nazi regime during World War II. " OSI's outstanding work has led to the successful deportations of many such individuals from the United States," Harris said. At the same time Harris also announced the appointment of Ronnie L. Edelman, a career Justice Department attorney, as Principal Deputy at OSI. A native of New York, Rosenbaum, 39, came to the Department through the Honors Program after his graduation from Harvard Law School in 1980. He was a trial attorney with OSI from 1980 to 1984, In 1984, Rosenbaum left the Department to work as a corporate litigator with a New York law firm and then as general counsel for the World Jewish Congress. He later returned to OSI in 1988 where he was appointed as Principal Deputy Director. Edelman, who received her law degree from New York University in Buffalo in 1979, also was an Honors Program attorney when she joined the Department. Initially she was assigned to the Fraud Section. There she moved up through the ranks, serving as Deputy Chief of the Consumer and Institutional Fraud Branch, and as Acting Chief of the Government Regulatory Branch. In 1982 she joined OSI and was named Deputy Director in charge of litigation in 1990. "Ronnie and Eli are a tremendous pair who have dedicated extraordinary efforts to further OSI's mission," Harris said. "They represent the highest degree of professionalism and integrity and I am grateful that they will continue to provide OSI with their exceptional leadership." In 1994, OSI filed seven new cases, the highest yearly total in the last decade. To date, some 42 persons have been removed from the United States and 50 have been stripped of their citizenship. # # # # 95-081