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aliases	category	tags	summary	updated	relations
Dexter Leitenen	Law Enforcement & Legal	Person Lawyer FBI LawEnforcement	Assistant U.S. Attorney and former Green Beret, legal confidant to Allan Boyak before Boyak approached the FBI about Robert Booth Nichols, later Interim U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida.	2026-10-15	type with start role fn head_of U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida 1988-06-17 Interim United States Attorney 1

Dexter Lehtinen was an assistant United States Attorney and a close friend of Allan Boyak from his Green Beret days. He later became the Miami U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida. He was named Interim United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida effective June 17, 1988.¹ The Senate's 1992 report on Bank of Credit and Commerce International calls him "the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Dexter Lehtinen," among the critics of the Justice Department's handling of the bank.² Boyak consulted with Lehtinen before going to the Los Angeles Federal Bureau of Investigation office with his suspicions about Robert Booth Nichols' activities.³

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1. United States Attorneys' Bulletin, vol. 36, July 15, 1988, p. 166, "Personnel": Dexter Lehtinen took the oath of office, effective June 17, 1988, as Interim United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao/legacy/2010/10/12/usab3607.pdf ↩︎

2. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations, The BCCI Affair (Kerry-Brown report), 1992, ch. 8 ("the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Dexter Lehtinen"). https://irp.fas.org/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/08just.htm ↩︎

3. Seymour, Cheri. The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010 (the text spells the name "Leitenen"). ↩︎