Tony Mattivi has been confirmed as the 13th Director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. Attorney General Kris Kobach made the nomination in December, and it was confirmed yesterday.
For over 20 years, Director Mattivi served as a Federal Prosecutor — prosecuting drug trafficking, violent crime, organized crime, gangs, and terrorism cases. In the 2000 Capital case against the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the bombing of the USS Cole, Mattivi was the lead prosecutor. He also worked for the U. S. Department of Justice Regime Crimes Liaison Office in Iraq, advising the Iraqi High Tribunal as they tried members of Saddam Hussein’s Regime for committing war crimes. Mattivi was part of the prosecution team who convicted three Kansas Militia members for plotting to kill Somali Muslim immigrants living and worshipping at an apartment building and Mosque in Garden City. He also prosecuted Terry Lee Loewen, a former U. S. Marine who attempted to detonate high explosives at the Wichita airport on behalf of al Qaeda, and John T. Booker, who conspired to detonate a truck bomb at Fort Riley in support of Isis.
