Andrew Weissmann
Andrew A. Weissmann (born March 17, 1958) is an American attorney and professor. He was an Assistant United States Attorney from 1991 to 2002, when he prosecuted high-profile organized crime cases. He served as a lead prosecutor in Robert S. Mueller's Special Counsel's Office (2017–2019), as Chief of the Fraud Section in the Department of Justice (2015–2017) and is currently a professor at NYU Law School.
Andrew Weissmann | |
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| General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation | |
| In office 2011–2013 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Director | Robert Mueller |
| Preceded by | Valerie E. Caproni |
| Succeeded by | James A. Baker |
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| Born | March 17, 1958 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Education | Princeton University (BA) Columbia University (JD) |
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In 2002, President George W. Bush appointed Weissmann to be the deputy director and then director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Enron Task Force. Weissman also served as the General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2011 to 2013.
Starting in 2015, he became the chief of the Criminal Fraud Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. In June 2017, he was appointed to a management role on the 2017 special counsel team headed by Robert Mueller. To assume that position, Weissmann took a leave from his Department of Justice post. The special counsel's investigation concluded in 2019 and Weissmann went into the private sector.