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MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Peter D. Leary was named Monday, as the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. This comes after Charles Peeler resigned last week.
Acting U.S. Attorney Leary has served the citizens of the Middle District of Georgia as a prosecutor since 2012.
Since joining the United States Attorney’s Office (USAO), he has worked as the office’s Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council (ATAC) coordinator, its Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (CHIP) prosecutor and as the First Assistant U.S. Attorney.
In 2019, he received the Anti-Defamation League’s SHIELD award with FBI and Department of Justice partners, and he shared the 2018 International Association of Chiefs of Police/Thomson Reuters Award for Excellence in Criminal Investigation with the FBI and GBI.