US Attorney Nominee, Sister of Late Navy SEAL

Loretta Lynch keeps her late Navy SEAL brother's memory alive during attorney general confirmation hearings
Although her big brother has been dead since 2009, President Obama’s nominee for U.S. attorney general found a way for him to be by her side during her confirmation hearing last week when she brought his Navy SEAL trident medal with her to face the Senate Judiciary Committee.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
BY DAN FRIEDMAN , BILL HUTCHINSON

Published: Saturday, January 31, 2015

Loretta Lynch has her own Navy SEAL watching her back — from heaven.

On Wednesday, Loretta Lynch honored Lorenzo during her Capitol Hill hearing, telling senators she brought his Navy SEAL trident medal with her 'to ensure I have both my brothers with me today.'

Although her big brother has been dead since 2009, President Obama’s nominee for U.S. attorney general found a way for him to be by her side during her confirmation hearing last week when she brought his Navy SEAL trident medal with her to face the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“That was our son,” Lynch’s proud mother, Lorine, said of the family’s military hero.

She said Loretta Lynch, 55, and her two brothers, Lorenzo, and the Rev. Leonzo Lynch, a church pastor in Charlotte, N.C., pushed each other as kids to be great.

“They were all very close,” Lorine Lynch of Durham, N.C., a retired school librarian, told the Daily News. “One helped the other in reading and competing.”

On Wednesday, Loretta Lynch honored Lorenzo during her Capitol Hill hearing, telling senators she brought his Navy SEAL trident medal with her “to ensure I have both my brothers with me today.”

Her brother Leonzo beamed with pride as he attended the hearing with their father, the Rev. Lorenzo Lynch Sr., and about 30 family members and friends.

“He told us at least a year before that the VA Hospital was not giving good medical service,” the father said. “And we didn’t believe him . . . We thought he was using it as an excuse not to go.”

A national audit of the hospital in 2014 confirmed the younger Lynch was right. The audit, spurred by patient complaints at VA hospitals across the country, showed employees at the Durham facility falsified records from 2009 to 2012 to cover up shoddy treatment, including making veterans wait an average of 104 days for medical appointments.

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