The commission has also warned that it has a full-time task force looking at public pension funds, leaving state officials to wonder where federal regulators might focus next.
Los Angeles, Miami, Houston and Atlanta have full-time law-enforcement task forces focused on this gang, but New York, with apparently the biggest problem, does not.
"That's why I gave my full support to the task force," he said.
In September, about the time that the task force began regular meetings, Dr. Hamer joined TestU.
Last week, Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley called for a full audit of the task force.
"There was a time between Nov. 4 and mid-February when I was the only full-time member of the auto task force," Mr. Deese, a special assistant to the president for economic policy, acknowledged recently as he hurried between his desk at the White House and the Treasury building next door.
They insist their aggressive operations — the raids, the full-time investigator, a special cockfighting task force — are sending a message in a war of attrition.
(It was not made clear whether they were assigned to the task force full-time).
"People often ask me if it gets old, and they wonder why we are spending all this money," said Detective Kathleen Larson, one of 11 detectives assigned full time to the King County Sheriff's Green River Task Force, who spent most of today bushwhacking her way through the forest and sifting through rocky soil for remains.
The anti-gang task force includes full-time representatives of the Hempstead police, the federal Drug Enforcement Agency, the federal Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco and Firearms the United States Attorney's office, the New York State police, the Nassau County police and the Nassau County District Attorney's office.
Besides recommending that CUNY hire more full-time faculty at competitive salaries, the task force recommended that the university recruit better-qualified students to enter nursing, make its programs more flexible to accommodate student schedules, and support nursing students financially.
