Islip is a town in Suffolk County,New York,United States,on the south shore of Long Island. The population was 335,543 at the 2010 census,making it the fourth most populous city or town in the state.
Smithtown is a town in Suffolk County,New York on the North Shore of Long Island. It is part of the New York metropolitan area. The population was 116,296 at the 2020 Census.
The Town of Brookhaven is the most populous of the ten towns of Suffolk County,New York,United States. Part of the New York metropolitan area,it is located approximately 50 miles from Manhattan. It is the largest of the state of New York's 932 towns by area,and the second most populous after the Town of Hempstead.
Hofstra University is a private university in Hempstead,New York. It is Long Island's largest private university. Hofstra originated in 1935 as an extension of New York University (NYU) under the name Nassau College –Hofstra Memorial of New York University. It became an independent Hofstra College in 1939 and gained university status in 1963. Comprising ten schools,including the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and Deane School of Law,Hofstra has hosted a series of prominent presidential conferences and several United States presidential debates.
Robert Abrams is an American attorney and politician. He served as the attorney general of New York from 1979 to 1993 and was the Democratic nominee for the 1992 United States Senate election in New York.
Stuart Rabinowitz was the 8th president of Hofstra University. Before assuming the presidency,he was dean of Hofstra Law School for over a decade and before that was a distinguished professor of law.
Joseph Nestor Mondello was an American politician and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago from 2018 to 2021. He previously served as Chairman of the New York Republican State Committee until September 2009 and as the chairman of the Nassau County Republican Committee from 1983 to May 24,2018.
Barbara Dale Underwood is an American lawyer currently serving as the Solicitor General of New York. She was first appointed to the position in January 2007 by Andrew Cuomo,who was then serving as the state's Attorney General. Underwood was reappointed in 2011 by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
Brian X. Foley is an American politician who served as a member of the New York State Senate in 2009 and 2010. He previously served as a member of the Suffolk County Legislature.
The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York is the chief federal law enforcement officer in five New York counties:Kings (Brooklyn),Queens,Richmond,Nassau and Suffolk. The current U.S. Attorney is Breon Peace,who took over in October 2021.
Joan E. Donoghue is an American lawyer,international legal scholar,former U.S. State Department official,and the current president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). She was first elected to the court in 2010,re-elected in 2014,and elected by the ICJ judges to be president of the ICJ in 2021. She is the third woman to be elected to the ICJ and the first American woman elected as president of the Court.
Bruce Arthur Blakeman is an American attorney and politician currently serving as the 10th County Executive of Nassau County,New York. He was elected in the 2021 election,defeating Democratic incumbent Laura Curran. He previously served as the commissioner for the New York-New Jersey Port Authority as well as a Nassau County legislator and Hempstead town councilman.
Chad A. Lupinacci is an American politician who served as the town supervisor of Huntington,New York and as a former member for the 10th District of the New York Assembly. He is a Republican.
Steven Andrew Engel is an American lawyer. He served as the 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,and confirmed on November 7,2017. On January 20,2021,he was succeeded by Christopher H. Schroeder,serving under the Biden Administration.
Jeffrey Adam Rosen is an American lawyer who served as the acting United States attorney general from December 2020 to January 2021 and as the United States deputy attorney general from 2019 to 2020. Before joining the Department of Justice,he was a senior partner at the law firm Kirkland &Ellis and was the United States deputy secretary of transportation.
Jeffrey Bossert Clark is an American lawyer who was Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division from 2018 to 2021. In September 2020,he was also appointed acting head of the Civil Division. In 2020 and 2021,Clark helped then-president Donald Trump attempt to subvert the 2020 presidential election. Clark's actions in that endeavor were reviewed by the District of Columbia Bar Association –the entity authorized by law to pursue attorney discipline and disbarment in the District of Columbia –which recommended discipline to the DC Court of Appeals in July 2022.
John Charles Demers is an American attorney who served as the assistant attorney general of the National Security Division. An appointee of President Donald Trump,he served under both,President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. John Demers also served as acting United States Attorney General for a few hours following the resignation of the previous acting United States Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen at noon on January 20,2021,until President Joe Biden signed an executive order naming Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Human Resources and Administration Monty Wilkinson as acting United States Attorney General later that day.
Associate deputy attorney general is a position in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General in United States Department of Justice. The number of positions varies widely depending on the staffing discretion of the deputy attorney general,but in 2017,there were five such positions,all of whom served as advisors to the deputy attorney general. There is also a separate principal associate deputy attorney general,who is the principal advisor to the deputy attorney general,and to whom all associate deputy attorneys general report. The associate deputy attorney general positions are filled by Senior Executive Service (SES) career attorneys,by SES political appointees,or by non-SES career attorneys serving on detail assignments from elsewhere in the department.
Seth D. DuCharme is an American attorney who served as the acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. DuCharme was appointed by Attorney General William Barr and sworn in on July 10,2020,succeeding Richard Donoghue,who left his role to serve as principal associate deputy attorney general to Jeffrey A. Rosen.
Robert Montague"Monty" Wilkinson is an American lawyer who has spent his entire career at the Justice Department. He served as acting United States Attorney General from January 20 to March 10,2021. Wilkinson is presently the director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys.
