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    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:                  News Media contact:      
  September 7, 2000                       John R. Winston at 202-418-7450
  
  
        FCC Enforcement Bureau Announces New Staff Assignments
  
  Washington, DC Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Enforcement
  Bureau, announced that Alex Starr has been named Chief of the Enforcement Bureau's
  Market Disputes Resolution Division (MDRD).  Since the Enforcement Bureau's creation
  in November 1999, Starr has served as one of MDRD's two Deputy Chiefs.
  
       Prior to serving as a Deputy Chief of MDRD, Starr was Chief of the Formal
  Complaints and Investigations Branch of the Common Carrier Bureau's (CCB)
  Enforcement Division and also worked as an attorney in the CCB's Policy Division. 
  
       Before joining the Commission, Starr was a litigation partner at the law firm of
  Reed Smith in Washington, D.C.  He also served as a law clerk for a federal district court
  judge and for a federal circuit court judge.
  
       Alex Starr is an honors graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School.
  
  Radhika Karmarkar will replace Alex Starr as one of the two Deputy Chiefs of the
  MDRD.  Since the Enforcement Bureau's creation, Karmarkar served as an Assistant
  Division Chief in MDRD.
  
       Prior to that assignment, Karmarkar was Deputy Chief of the Formal Complaints
  and Investigations Branch of the CCB's Enforcement Division and also served as a
  Senior Attorney in the CCB's Policy Division.
  
       Before joining the Commission, Karmarkar worked as an attorney at the National
  Telecommunications and Information Administration and prior to that, as an associate in
  the telecommunications group at the law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey.
  
       Radhika Karmarkar has a B.A. from Oxford University and J.D. from American University.
  
  
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