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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.

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.

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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André Birotte Jr.

Birotte was the U.S. Attorney investigating charges against former cyclist Lance Armstrong for defrauding of the government, drug trafficking, money laundering and conspiracy.

Biškupić

Steven M. Biskupic (born 1961), U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

Brandeis Medal

Past recipients include U.S. Supreme Court justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Harry Blackmun, Sandra Day O’Connor, and John Paul Stevens; former U.S. attorney general Janet Reno; U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd; Kentucky Supreme Court Chief Justice John Palmore; civil rights lawyer Morris Dees; lawyer and professor Samuel Dash; and Howard Baker.

Brett Tolman

Before becoming U.S. Attorney, Tolman worked as counsel in the Senate Judiciary Committee for committee chairs Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and then Arlen Specter (R-PA) during the 109th United States Congress.

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.

Coalition for Free and Open Elections

COFOE was founded in 1985, when representatives from across the political spectrum met in the New York City law office of former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark.

Danziger Bridge shootings

Jim Letten, the U. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, vowed his office would take "as much time and resources as necessary" to resolve the case.

David Satz

David M. Satz, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1961 to 1969

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.

Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy hearings

Concerns expressed by Senators Feinstein and Pryor concerning the Senate's preogative in confirming U.S. Attorney nominations in early January were followed up by hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 6, 2007 called by Senator Schumer (D, New York) with Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty as witness.

Donnie Harrison

In November 2011, Harrison publicly endorsed Wake County Commissioner Tony Gurley for Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, and former U.S. Attorney George Holding for United States Congress.

E. Grey Lewis

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

Edward C. Prado

He has received many honors and awards, including the following: St. Thomas More Award, St. Mary's University School of Law (2000); Outstanding Alumnus, San Antonio College (1989); LULAC State Award for Excellence (1981); Edgewood I.S.D. Hall of Fame (1981); Achievement Award, U.S. Attorney General (1980); Outstanding Young Lawyer of San Antonio (1980); and Outstanding Federal Public Defender, Western District of Texas (1978).

Frewsburg, New York

Robert H. Jackson (1892–1954): The boyhood home of this future lawyer, New Deal official, U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Supreme Court justice and chief prosecutor at Nuremberg of Nazi war criminals following World War II is located on the main street in Frewsburg.

George J. Terwilliger III

A former U.S. Attorney for Vermont and Deputy U.S. Attorney General (1991–93) in the George H. W. Bush administration, Terwilliger specialized in white-collar crime and terrorism.

Hugh Knox

Knox was the son of Philander C. Knox, who served as the U.S. Secretary of State under William Howard Taft and U.S. Attorney General under William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.

John Lafayette Camp, Jr.

In 1913 President Wilson appointed him the U.S. Attorney for the western district of Texas.

John R. Hazel

In 1909, Judge Hazel issued an order cancelling the naturalization of Jacob A. Kersner, at the request of the U.S. Attorney's office, and thus stripping the citizenship of his ex-wife, the Anarchist orator Emma Goldman, who had gained U.S. citizenship in 1887 by her marriage to Kersner.

Jonathan Goldstein

Jonathan L. Goldstein, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1974 to 1977.

Judith Shapiro

The inaugural Summit on the Barnard campus drew an audience of more than 1,000 people for a discussion on women’s leadership; panelists included former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, activist Marian Wright Edelman, and General Claudia Kennedy, the first female three-star general.

Kevin Ryan

Kevin V. Ryan (born 1957), American attorney, former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California

Louis Manna

He was also suspected but never convicted of placing murder contracts on U.S. Attorney Samuel Alito, Assistant United States Attorney Michael Chertoff and United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Maryanne Trump Barry, the sister of Donald Trump.

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.

Malcolm F. Marsh

Marsh presided over the 1995 trial of several former followers of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh after their failed assassination plot against U.S. Attorney for Oregon Charles H. Turner.

Michael Garcia

Michael J. Garcia, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York

New England Motor Freight

In a racketeering suit filed by the U.S. Attorney in 1988 Shevell was accused of making Mafia payoffs and having an eleven-year corrupt relationship with Tony Provenzano, a Genovese family mobster and former union leader who was convicted of racketeering and murder.

Operation True Test

Although the raids were not in the Western District of Pennsylvania, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Mary Beth Buchanan, is overseeing the operation.

Patrick Miles Jr.

On December 1, 2010, Miles returned to practice law at Dickinson Wright in Grand Rapids until he took office as the Grand Rapids-based U.S. Attorney.

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.

Portland Rum Riot

The prosecutor was former U.S. Attorney General Nathan Clifford, and the defense attorney was later U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Treasury William P. Fessenden.

Priscilla Lord

Her father would later serve as Minnesota Attorney General from 1955 to 1960 and then as Chief Judge, United States District Court for the District of Minnesota and as U.S. Attorney.

Rosa Emilia Rodríguez

A career prosecutor, first in the Puerto Rico Department of Justice and subsequently in the U.S. Attorney's office in San Juan, she has been nominated by President George W. Bush as United States Attorney.

Sam Graves

Graves is the brother of Todd Graves, former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri.

Stephanie Marie Rose

Rose's work in the U.S. attorney's office has involved some controversy surrounding the Postville Raid and the conviction and sentence of Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse chief Sholom Rubashkin of Postville, Iowa on 86 financial fraud-related federal charges and his subsequent 27-year sentence in federal prison.

Taney

Roger B. Taney (1777–1864), U.S. Attorney General and Chief Justice

The Ashcroft Group

Catherine Hanaway, former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri.

The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord

U.S. Attorney Asa Hutchinson charged Ellison and most of his leadership with illegal weapon possession, Ellison faced the maximum 20 years prison sentence having been convicted on Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act charges.

Thornburgh

Dick Thornburgh (b. 1932), American politician; governor of Pennsylvania 1979–87; U.S. Attorney General 1988–91

Tight Spot

She is offered a deal for her freedom by U.S. attorney Lloyd Hallett (Edward G. Robinson) if she will testify as a witness in the trial of mobster Benjamin Costain (Lorne Greene).

Toledo War

In June 1835, Lucas dispatched a delegation consisting of U.S. Attorney Noah Haynes Swayne, former Congressman William Allen, and David T. Disney to Washington D.C. to confer with President Andrew Jackson.

Tom Marino

In 2007, Marino resigned from office as U.S. Attorney after a Department of Justice investigation was launched for giving a reference to convicted felon Louis DeNaples, who needed the reference to obtain a license to operate slot machines at his Mount Airy Lodge casino in Eastern PA.

Tommy Tanaka

In June, 2006, the USDOJ's Office of the Inspector General released their final report on their investigation into allegations made by previous interim U.S. Attorney for Guam Frederick Black that Tanaka's nephew Leonardo Rapadas replaced Black in his position as U.S. Attorney after Black called for an investigation into Washington-based lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

United States Senate special election in Wyoming, 2008

Speculation about potential Republican challengers had included the other finalists to succeed Thomas, Cynthia Lummis and Tom Sansonetti; as well as former state House Speaker Randall Luthi, and former U.S. Attorney Matt Mead.

University of Arkansas School of Law

Paula Casey, former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas

University of Maine School of Law

Many of Maine's judges, legal scholars, politicians and community leaders graduated from the law school, including the Chief Justices of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, Leigh Saufley and Daniel Wathen, state Attorney General G. Steven Rowe, State Senate President Libby Mitchell, U.S. District Court Judge John A. Woodcock, former Governor John McKernan and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine, Paula D. Silsby.

Warren H. Coolidge

As U.S. Attorney, Coolidge oversaw the prosecution of Ben Chavis and other members of the Wilmington Ten, and was involved in the early stages of the Jeffrey MacDonald murder investigation.