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unusual facts about Assistant U.S. Attorney



Beau Biden

After being elected, he appointed former Delaware Attorney General and International Judge Richard S. Gebelein as Chief Deputy Attorney General, and former assistant U.S. Attorney Richard G. Andrews was appointed as State Prosecutor.

Brenda Jefferson Foster

In exchange for pleading guilty to a minor charge, she averted being prosecuted for the major offenses but agreed to serve as a witness for the office of U.S. Attorney Jim Letten.

Dow Lohnes

Bernard Long - former member, former Assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington,DC and Principal Attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (now Internal Revenue Service).

Eng Foong Ho v. Attorney-General

Thio Li-ann has noted that it is not clear whether the Court of Appeal was laying down "intentional and arbitrary discrimination" as the sole test for whether executive acts comply with Article 12(1) of the Constitution, or whether it is only one possible test and that executive acts can also be challenged if they fail a reasonable classification test.

However, Justice Tan Lee Meng held that the plaintiffs, who were merely temple devotees, did not have the required locus standi to institute the proceedings, as opposed to the trustees of the temple who were its legal owners.

The temple property, which was located near the site of the Bartley Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Station, was compulsorily acquired pursuant to the Land Acquisition Act.

Federal Prison Camp, Alderson

Mabel Walker Willebrandt, the Assistant U.S. Attorney General, first encouraged establishment of a facility for women.

Kenneth L. Schroeder

In 2008 the Northern District of California U.S. Attorney’s Office concluded their two-year stock options backdating probe of Schroeder.

Mark Lesko

Lesko served as Deputy Chief of the Long Island Criminal Division, where he ran the U.S. Attorney's Office on Long Island leading all federal investigations and prosecutions in Brookhaven.

Maurice Neil Andrews

He was a U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia from 1942 to 1946, and served as a staff member of Justice Robert H. Jackson during prosecution of war criminals in the Nuremberg Trials in Germany.

Miracle cars scam

The report eventually wound up in the office of Todd Graves, the U.S. Attorney for Missouri's Western District.

Norte del Valle Cartel

The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Bonnie S. Klapper and Walter M. Norkin in the Eastern District of New York.

Pennsylvania Attorney General election, 2000

Jim Eisenhower, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and close confidant of Ed Rendell was the Democratic nominee; he earned a narrow victory in the party primary over John Morganelli, the District Attorney of Northampton County.

Richard N. Palmer

After practicing privately with Shipman and Goodman, Palmer was as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut, interrupted briefly by a stint in the firm of Chatigny and Palmer.

Rick Haselton

During law school, Haselton clerked for the U.S. Attorney for Oregon Sidney I. Lezak.

Stephen Heymann

He heads U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz’s Internet and Computer Crimes Unit.

Terry Goddard

Mr. Conrad has since joined the criminal division of U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke's office.

Thomas Capano

U.S. Attorney Colm Connolly and Delaware state prosecutor Ferris Wharton were the state's prosecutors, and William Swain Lee was the presiding judge in the highly publicized Superior Court trial.

Walter Forbes

He was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey and convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, and two counts of making false statements, for inflating reported incomes for the Cendant Corporation, when he was Chief Executive Officer of that company in the 1990s, and at its predecessor company CUC International.

William Acker

In 2007, Acker recommended that the U.S. Attorney charge Richard Scruggs and the Scruggs Law Firm with criminal contempt for leaking documents in violation of a court order; in 2008, he accused Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood of conspiring with Scruggs to skirt the court order.

William Augustus Bootle

From 1925 to 1928, Bootle had a private practice in Macon; in 1928 he was appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney by President Calvin Coolidge, serving at this post for two years.


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Charles E. Mitchell

Mitchell remained chairman until 1933, when he was arrested and indicted for tax evasion by then Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Dewey.

Child pornography

David Westerfield of California was convicted in 2002 of possessing child pornography, despite contrary opinion by some members of law enforcement: an Assistant U.S. Attorney concluded that the photographs shown to her did not meet the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal standard for lascivious conduct; and Detective Chris Armstrong declared that Westerfield’s images were not child porn.

Debra Ann Livingston

From 1986 to 1991, she was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, where she handled criminal cases, including the prosecution of Ferdinand Marcos, former president of the Philippines.

E. Grey Lewis

He later became an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the United States Department of Justice Civil Division.

Mabel Walker Willebrandt

The 2010 HBO television series Boardwalk Empire features Assistant U.S. Attorney Esther Randolph, a character based on and styled after Willebrandt, portrayed by Julianne Nicholson.

Pennsylvania Attorney General election, 2004

Corbett's Democratic opponent was Jim Eisenhower, the 2002 nominee who had once served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and had been a close confidant of Governor Ed Rendell.