Where did the U.S. attorney who helped inspire TrumpiLeaks serve?
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TrumpiLeaks TrumpiLeaks is a whistleblower website started by American documentary filmmaker and author Michael Moore to solicit leaks of material about Donald Trump from within the Trump Administration, the Trump Organization, and U.S. citizenry. Moore was inspired to create the site after witnessing the firing by Trump of three federal law enforcement officials: U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, and former FBI Director James Comey.
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Preet Bharara Preetinder Singh "Preet" Bharara ( ; born October 13, 1968) is an American lawyer who served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 to 2017. As U.S. Attorney, Bharara earned a reputation of a "crusader" prosecutor. According to the "New York Times", during his tenure he was one of "the nation's most aggressive and outspoken prosecutors of public corruption and Wall Street crime." Under Bharara, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York prosecuted nearly 100 Wall Street executives for insider trading and other offenses. He reached historic settlements and fines with the four largest banks in the United States, and closed multibillion-dollar hedge funds for activities including insider trading.
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Clarence M. York Clarence Melville York (November 1868 – June 20, 1906) was an American attorney who, in the 1890s, was one of the first law clerks to the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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William M. Evarts William Maxwell Evarts (February 6, 1818February 28, 1901) was an American lawyer and statesman from New York who served as U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator from New York. He was renowned for his skills as a litigator and was involved in three of the most important causes of American political jurisprudence in his day: the impeachment of a president, the Geneva arbitration and the contests before the electoral commission to settle the presidential election of 1876.
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Karen L. Loeffler Karen L. Loeffler (born 1957) is the former United States Attorney for the District of Alaska. She was appointed in 2009 by President Barack Obama, replacing Nelson Cohen. She resigned her position in March 2017. Loeffler was the first female U.S. Attorney for Alaska. As one of 93 U.S. Attorneys nationwide, she represented the United States in all civil and criminal cases within the district.
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Bryan Schroder Bryan Schroder is an American attorney who is the Acting United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of Alaska. He is President Donald Trump's nominee to become the U.S. Attorney for the District of Alaska. Schroder has worked at the U.S. Attorney's Office in the District of Alaska since 2005. Before becoming the Acting U.S. Attorney, he was the first assistant U.S. attorney, chief of the criminal division, anti-terrorism prosecutor, and district ethics adviser. He has prosecuted cases involving violent crimes, drug distribution, gun crimes, fraud, tax evasion, environmental crimes, and fisheries and wildlife offenses.
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Dick Thornburgh Richard Lewis Thornburgh (born July 16, 1932) is an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as the 41st Governor of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1987, and then as the U.S. Attorney General from 1988 to 1991. Before his time as Attorney General and Governor, he worked in the office of the United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
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James Clark McReynolds James Clark McReynolds (February 3, 1862 – August 24, 1946) was an American lawyer and judge who served as United States Attorney General under President Woodrow Wilson and as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He served on the Court from October 12, 1914 to his retirement on January 31, 1941, during the presidencies of Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was best known for his sustained opposition to the actions by Roosevelt and his overt anti-semitism. In his twenty-six years on the bench, McReynolds wrote more than 506 majority opinions for the court and 157 dissents, 93 of which were against the New Deal. He was one of the "Four Horsemen" (together with Willis Van Devanter, George Sutherland, and Pierce Butler), who represented the opposition to Roosevelt's New Deal.
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United States Associate Attorney General The Associate Attorney General of the United States is the third-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Justice. The Associate Attorney General advises and assists the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General in policies relating to civil justice, federal and local law enforcement, and public safety matters. The Associate Attorney General is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The incumbent Associate Attorney General is Rachel Brand.
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Debra Wong Yang Debra Wong Yang (; pinyin: Yáng Huáng Jīnyù) was the United States Attorney for the Central District of California. She was appointed in May 2002 by President George W. Bush, who made her the first Asian American woman to serve as a United States Attorney. In 2009, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa nominated Yang to a vacancy on the Los Angeles Police Commission. In 2016, she was listed as the potential choice for SEC Chief in Donald Trump's cabinet.
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David S. Cohen (attorney) David S. Cohen (born 1963) is an American attorney who formerly served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Originally from Boston, Cohen previously worked in the U.S. Treasury Department and as an attorney in private practice.
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Attorney General of Delaware The Attorney General of Delaware is a constitutional officer of the U.S. state of Delaware, and is the chief law officer and the head of the State Department of Justice. On January 6, 2015 Matt Denn, who was formerly Delaware's lieutenant governor and insurance commissioner, was sworn in as the 45th Attorney General of Delaware.
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Steven Engel Steven Andrew Engel is an American lawyer who is the nominee to become United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel in the Donald Trump administration. Engel, who previously worked in the George W. Bush administration as deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel, was nominated by President Donald Trump on January 31, 2017. A graduate of Yale Law School, Engel clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. He practiced law at Kirkland & Ellis before becoming a partner at the Dechert law firm.
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Carlos G. Muñiz Carlos G. Muñiz is an American attorney who is employed by McGuireWoods. He is President Donald Trump's nominee to become General Counsel for the United States Department of Education.
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Marty Lederman Martin "Marty" S. Lederman was a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), appointed by President Obama in January 2009. He previously served as an Attorney Advisor in OLC from 1994 to 2002. He has concentrated on questions involving freedom of speech, the Religion Clauses, congressional power and federalism, equal protection, separation of powers, copyright, and food and drug law. He helped draft the June 2010 memorandum authorizing the assassination of U.S. citizen and Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
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Andrew McCabe Andrew George McCabe (born May 5, 1968) is an American attorney who is the Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. On May 9, 2017, McCabe became Acting Director of the FBI after James Comey was dismissed by President Donald Trump. He served as Acting FBI Director until August 2, 2017.
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Joseph E. Schmitz Joseph Edward Schmitz (born August 28, 1956) is an American lawyer, former inspector general of the United States Department of Defense and a former executive with Blackwater Worldwide. After working as a watchdog at the Pentagon for three and a half years, Schmitz resigned to return to the private sector. Although allegations questioning his stewardship of the inspector general’s office surfaced nine months after his resignation, a high-level review board, the President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency, cleared him of all wrongdoing in 2006. He was named one of Donald Trump's foreign policy advisors for his 2016 presidential campaign.
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James P. McGranery James Patrick McGranery (July 8, 1895December 23, 1962) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as the United States Attorney General during the Truman administration from April 4, 1952 until January 20, 1953.
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Daniel G. Knauss Daniel G. Knauss was the Acting United States Attorney for the District of Arizona. Knauss served in that position in 1993 until Janet Napolitano was appointed by President Bill Clinton as United States Attorney for the District of Arizona. Knauss also served in the same position in 2007, receiving an appointment from George W. Bush. As of 2007, Knauss has worked for 34 years as an assistant district attorney.
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Matthew E. Yarbrough Matthew E. Yarbrough (born October 12, 1966) is an American lawyer and a former Assistant United States Attorney for the North District of Texas, where he was the lead prosecutor in several notable alien smuggling, illegal immigration and cyber hacking cases. He is now the president and founder of the Yarbrough Law Group (YLG) and Yarbrough Strategic Advisors (YSA) in Dallas, Texas.
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David W. Ogden David William Ogden, known professionally as David W. Ogden, served as the Deputy Attorney General of the United States. An American lawyer, Ogden was also a high-ranking official in the United States Department of Justice and the United States Department of Defense during the administration of President Bill Clinton. He is a nationally recognized litigator and counselor in the Washington, DC. office of the law firm WilmerHale, LLP.
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Mary Jo White Mary Jo White (born December 27, 1947) is an American attorney who served as the 31st Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 2013 to 2017. She was the first woman to be United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, serving from 1993 to 2002. On January 24, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated White to replace Elisse B. Walter as Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She was confirmed by the Senate on April 8, 2013 and was sworn into office on April 10, 2013. As of 2014, she was listed as the 73rd most powerful woman in the world by "Forbes".