For the past two years, the FBI’s new special agent in charge of its Denver division, has managed non-terrorism operations at U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
James H. Davis replaces Robert J. Garrity Jr., who transferred to the Dallas office, where he previously served as assistant special agent in charge.
In addition to Davis’ most recent work as legal attaché in the embassy in Baghdad, he was the deputy on-scene commander of the FBI’s Baghdad Operations Center in 2003 and 2004. In 2004 and 2005, he was on-scene commander in Afghanistan, leading the hunt for al Qaeda operatives, according to the FBI.
For three years in the early 1990s Davis oversaw Operation Silver Shovel, a massive undercover investigation in Chicago that netted 18 people, including six city aldermen, the president of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District and two city inspectors.
The investigation included more than 1,100 audio or video tapes pertaining to bribes, cocaine buys and money laundering valued at $2.2 million.
In the late 1990s Davis supervised the investigation of then-Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt. In 2001, he was named chief of the agency’s Governmental Fraud Unit. In 2003 he was appointed assistant special agent in charge of the Indianapolis division.
Davis is a Detroit native who got an accounting degree from Michigan State in 1982. Before joining the FBI in 1985, he was a CPA in Chicago.
