Rod Jay Rosenstein (born January 13, 1965) is an American lawyer who served as Deputy Attorney General of the United States since 2017.
Prior to his current appointment, he served as US Attorney for the District of Maryland, and for his first 10 years as a leading federal prosecutor there, "statewide killings were reduced by a third, doubling the decline at the national level." At the time of confirmation as Deputy Attorney General in April 2017, he was the longest serving US Attorney in the US. Rosenstein was nominated to the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, but his nomination was never considered by the US Senate. He's a Republican.
President Donald Trump nominated Rosenstein to serve as Deputy Attorney General for the US Department of Justice on February 1, 2017. Rosenstein was confirmed by the US Senate on April 25, 2017. In May 2017, he wrote a memo that President Trump said was based on his decision to dismiss the FBI Director James Comey.
Later that month, Rosenstein appointed special adviser Robert Mueller to investigate allegations of links between the Trump and Russia campaigns during the 2016 election and related matters based on Comey's shooting.
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Early life and family
Rod Jay Rosenstein was born on 13 January 1965 in Philadelphia, to Robert, who runs a small business, and Gerri Rosenstein, a bookkeeper and chairman of the school board. He grew up in Lower Moreland Township, Pennsylvania. He has a sister, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Education and manners
He graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, with B.S. degree in economics, Summa cum laude in 1986.
He earned a J.D. cum laude in 1989 from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He then served as a legal clerk for Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg of the US Court of Appeals for the Circuit District of Columbia. He was a Wasserstein Fellow at Harvard Law School in 1997-98.
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Careers
Initial career
After his post, Rosenstein joins the US Department of Justice through the Honors Attorney General Program. From 1990 to 1993, he tried public corruption cases as a court lawyer with the Public Integrity Division of the Criminal Division, which was then chaired by Assistant Attorney General Robert Mueller.
During the Clinton Administration, Rosenstein served as Adviser to Deputy Attorney General Philip B. Heymann (1993-1994) and Special Assistant to Assistant Criminal Division Attorney General Jo Ann Harris (1994-1995). Rosenstein then worked for the US Independent Advisory Office under Ken Starr in a Whitewater investigation into President Bill Clinton. As Associate Independent Counsel from 1995 to 1997, he was a legal adviser in trials of three defendants convicted of fraud, and he oversaw an investigation that found no basis for criminal prosecution against White House officials who had obtained a background report on the FBI.
US lawyer Lynne A. Battaglia hired Rosenstein as Assistant US Attorney for the District of Maryland in 1997.
From 2001 to 2005, Rosenstein served as Assistant Deputy Principal Attorney General for the Tax Division at the US Department of Justice. He coordinates tax enforcement activities from the Tax Division, the US Attorney's Office and the IRS, and he oversees 90 lawyers and 30 support staff. He oversaw civil litigation and served as acting head of the Tax Division when Assistant Attorney General Eileen J. O'Connor was unavailable, and he personally briefed and argued civil appeals in several federal appeals courts.
US. Lawyers
President George W. Bush nominated Rosenstein to serve as US Attorney for the District of Maryland on May 23, 2005. He served on July 12, 2005, after the United States Senate unanimously confirmed his candidacy.
As a United States Attorney, he oversees federal civil and criminal litigation, assisted with federal law enforcement strategies in Maryland, and presents cases in US District Court and in US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. During his tenure as a US Attorney, Rosenstein succeeded in prosecuting leaks of classified information, corruption, murder and robbery, and "very effectively took acts of corruption within the police department."
Rosenstein secured some confidence in the prison guards in Baltimore for conspiring with the Black Guerrilla Family. He sued Baltimore police Wayne Jenkins, Momodu Gondo, Evodio Hendrix, Daniel Hersl, Jemell Rayam, Marcus Taylor, and Maurice Ward for extortion. Rosenstein, with the help of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Drug Enforcement Administration, secured confidence in large-scale narcotics cases in the District of Maryland, including Terrell Plummer's capture and confidence, Richard Christopher Byrd, James "Brad" LaRocca, and Yasmine Geen Young.
The Attorney General appoints Rosenstein to serve on the US Attorney's Advisory Committee, which evaluates and recommends policies for the Department of Justice. He is the deputy chair of the Organized Crimes and Crime Subcommittee and a member of the Subcommittee on White Collar Crime, Cyber ​​Property Criminal and Crime Problems. He also served on the Anti-Gang Coordinating Committee of the Attorney General.
Attorney General Eric Holder appointed Rosenstein to try General James Cartwright, former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for leaking to reporters. Cartwright pleaded guilty, but was later pardoned.
Rosenstein served as US Attorney in Maryland when the state killings fell by about a third, doubling the decline at the national level. Robbery and aggravated attacks also dropped faster than the national average. According to Thiru Vignarajah, former Maryland attorney general, "Collaboration between prosecutors, police, and the public combined with a forced focus on hard repeat offenders is the anchor of Rosenstein's approach." Rosenstein considers heroin and the opioid epidemic as a public health crisis, employing a re-entry specialist to help former criminals adjust to life outside of prison, and prosecute several cases of corrupt police officers.
Judicial nomination
In 2007, President George W. Bush nominated Rosenstein to the seat of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Rosenstein was a resident of Maryland at the time. American Democratic Senator Maryland, Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin, blocked Rosenstein's confirmation, claiming that she did not have a strong enough bond with Maryland.
United States Deputy Attorney General
President Donald Trump nominated Rosenstein to serve as Deputy Attorney General for the US Department of Justice on 1 February 2017. He was one of 46 US Attorneys who were ordered on March 10, 2017 to resign by Attorney General Jeff Sessions; Trump refused to resign. Rosenstein was confirmed by the Senate on April 25, 2017, with a 94-6 vote.
Memo Comey
On May 8, 2017, President Donald Trump directed Session and Rosenstein to file a case against FBI Director James Comey in writing. The next day, Rosenstein handed the memo to a Session that provided the basis for Session's recommendation to President Trump that Comey was dismissed. In his memo Rosenstein asserted that the FBI should have "a Director who understands gravity errors and promises not to repeat it". He concluded with an argument against keeping Comey as director of the FBI, arguing that he was given the opportunity to "confess his guilt" but that there was no hope that he would "implement the necessary corrective action."
Some critics argue that Rosenstein, allowing Comey's dismissal in the midst of an investigation into Russian electoral interference, damaged his own reputation.
After government officials cited Rosenstein's memo as the main reason for Comey's dismissal, an anonymous source in the White House said that Rosenstein threatened to resign. Rosenstein denied the claim and said he "did not give up", when asked directly by a reporter from the Sinclair Broadcast Group.
On May 17, 2017, Rosenstein told the Senate that he knew that Comey would be fired before he wrote his controversial memo that the White House was originally used as a justification for President Trump who shot Comey.
Advice on specific advice
On May 17, 2017, Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller as special advisor to investigate "any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with Donald Trump's campaign" and anything that arises directly from that investigation. Rosenstein's order authorizes Mueller to file criminal charges if he finds any federal crime. Rosenstein said in a statement: "My decision is not the finding that a crime has been committed or that any claim is justified I do not make such a determination What I have determined is that based on the unique circumstances, the public interest requires me to place this investigation under authority of a person who runs the level of independence of the normal chain of command. "
In an interview with the Associated Press, Rosenstein said he would resign from Mueller's oversight, if he himself was the subject of investigation for his role in the dismissal of James Comey. In that scenario, oversight will fall to third-ranked DOJ, Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand. Rachel Brand announced its intention to resign on February 9, 2018
Michael Cohen's Investigation
In April 2018, Rosenstein reportedly personally approved the FBI's attack on Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen, in which the FBI confiscated emails, documents and tax records, some of which related to Cohen's payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels. After the US interim ad, Lawyer Geoffrey Berman resigned, the search was conducted by others at the US Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York and approved by a federal judge.
Personal life
Rosenstein is married to Lisa Barsoomian, an Armenian American lawyer who works for the National Institutes of Health. They have two daughters.
He is a registered Republican, "but he does not make campaign contributions to any political candidate, according to election records."
Rosenstein has served as an adjunct professor, teaching classes on federal criminal prosecution at the University of Maryland School of Law and court advocacy at the University of Baltimore School of Law.
He is a member of the Washington DC Temple of Sinai, a Reform Jewish congregation, from 2008 to 2014. According to the questionnaire that Rosenstein completed before the hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee, he was a member of the Jewish Community Center sports league from 1993 to 2012. Rosenstein served on the board of directors of the Museum US Holocaust Warning from 2001-11.
See also
- The controversy of Bill Clinton's trial prosecution
- The controversy over George W. Bush's judicial appointment
References
Source
This article incorporates public domain material from the documents of the United States Government "Rod J. Rosenstein, District of Maryland". from the US Department of Justice
External links
- Appearance in C-SPAN
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