LAS VEGAS (AP) — The U.S. Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump's appointment of Nicholas Trutanich as U.S. attorney for Nevada.
Trutanich's appointment was confirmed Wednesday by the Senate after being announced last July by then-Republican Sen. Dean Heller and endorsed by Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and then being put on hold along with numerous other presidential appointments.
Trutanich will replace Dayle Elieson, who was appointed interim U.S. attorney by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions last January.
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Trutanich is chief of staff to departing state Attorney General Adam Laxalt.
He previously was a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles and served a deputy justice attache handling national security cases in Iraq.