The United States attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York named Marshall Miller as new criminal division chief, effective tomorrow.  He replaces Richard Donoghue, who's leaving to become head of litigation at Long Island-based CA Technologies, fka Computer Associates. Computer Associates has, in the past, had contentious dealings with this U.S. Attorney's Office.  Interestingly, Donoghue succeeds at CA another former federal prosecutor, Gary Brown, who's becoming a federal magistrate judge. Miller's CV. A veteran federal prosecutor in the office, Miller has served as the deputy chief of the criminal unit and head of the violent crimes and terrorism division.  He's handled a number of the office’s high-profile terrorism prosecutions, including a case in which 5 defendants were convicted in 2 trials of plotting to blow up the jet-fuel supply tanks at JFK International airport. Miller, who earned his undergraduate and law degrees from Yale, has taught at NYU Law School and helped brother Gifford with his 2005 NYC mayoral campaign.  Gifford Miller had been the President of the NYC Council. Eastern District. The Brooklyn branch of the Justice Department - which includes Queens, Staten Island, Brooklyn, Long Island - has recently been relatively quiet on the white-collar crime front.   In September, the office secured a guilty plea from a Citigroup executive charged with embezzling more than $22mn from the bank. Prosecutors there lost a high-profile trial in 2009 when it tried 2 fund managers at Bear Stearns in a subprime-mortgage fraud case. Several years ago, the office also brought a number of criminal cases against executives relating to the stock-options backdating scandal.    [Dealbook, 11/7/11]