Webster Lee "Webb" Hubbell is a former United States Associate Attorney General from 1993 to 1994 who as part of the Whitewater controversy pled guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of failing to disclose a conflict of interest,and was sentenced to 21 months in prison.
Vincent Condol Gray is an American politician who served as the mayor of the District of Columbia from 2011 to 2015.
United States v. Hubbell,530 U.S. 27 (2000),was a United States Supreme Court case involving Webster Hubbell,who had been indicted on various tax-related charges,and mail and wire fraud charges,based on documents that the government had subpoenaed from him. The Fifth Amendment provides that no person "shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." The Supreme Court has,since 1976,applied the so-called "act-of-production doctrine". Under this doctrine,a person can invoke his Fifth Amendment rights against the production of documents only where the very act of producing the documents is incriminating in itself.
Bruce Lee Castor Jr. is an American lawyer and retired Republican politician from Montgomery County,Pennsylvania. He was appointed as the first Solicitor General of Pennsylvania in March 2016,and also first deputy attorney general the following July. Castor became acting attorney general less than a month later. He led for the defense of the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump along with American lawyer David Schoen.
Emmet Gael Sullivan is an American attorney and jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Harry Thomas Jr.,is a Democratic politician in Washington,D.C. In 2006 he was elected to represent Ward 5 on the Council of the District of Columbia and served until his resignation in 2012,several hours after federal prosecutors filed charges of embezzlement and filing false tax returns against him.
The United States attorney for the District of Columbia(USADC) is responsible for representing the federal government in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia has two divisions,the Civil Division and the Criminal Division. The Civil Division is responsible for representing federal agencies in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and in appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Amy Sauber Berman Jackson is an American attorney and jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Barbara Lynn McQuade is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan from 2010 to 2017. As part of President Donald Trump's 2017 dismissal of U.S. attorneys,she stepped down in March 2017. She is a professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School and a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.
Thomas Kevin Clancy is an American legal educator and lawyer. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Mississippi School of Law and lectures nationally on cyber crime and the Fourth Amendment,which regulates governmental searches and seizures. He previously served as the director of the National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law,where he was a research professor. He took emeritus status on July 1,2014. Clancy received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame,and is a graduate of Vermont Law School.
On November 4,2014,Washington,D.C.,held an election for its mayor,concurrently with U.S. Senate elections in various states and U.S. House elections and various state and local elections.
Lois Gail Lerner is an American attorney and former United States federal civil service employee. Lerner became director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in 2005,and subsequently became the central figure in the 2013 IRS targeting controversy in the targeting of politically aligned groups,either denying them tax-exempt status outright or delaying that status until they could no longer take effective part in the 2012 election. On May 10,2013,in a conference call with reporters,Lerner apologized that Tea Party groups and other groups had been targeted for audits of their applications for tax-exemption. Both conservative and liberal groups were scrutinized. Only three groups—all branches of the Democratic group Emerge America—had tax exemptions revoked. Lerner resigned over the controversy. An investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation,completed in 2015,found "substantial evidence of mismanagement,poor judgment and institutional inertia" but "found no evidence that any IRS official acted based on political,discriminatory,corrupt,or other inappropriate motives that would support a criminal prosecution".
Irvin Bertram Nathan is an American lawyer from Washington,DC. He served as the Attorney General of the District of Columbia from 2011 to 2015. He was appointed in 2011 by Mayor Vincent C. Gray. He previously served as the general counsel of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011. Nathan announced his resignation the day after the November 2014 election,in which voters chose Karl Racine as the first elected Attorney General of D.C.
H.Res. 574,officially titled Recommending that the House of Representatives find Lois G. Lerner,Former Director,Exempt Organizations,Internal Revenue Service,in contempt of Congress for refusal to comply with a subpoena duly issued by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,is a simple resolution that passed in the United States House of Representatives during the 113th United States Congress. The resolution is in response to the testimony of Lois Lerner,a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee,who was at the center of the then-ongoing 2013 IRS controversy over the agency's targeting of selected political groups applying for tax-exempt status. The resolution holds Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify at a congressional hearing.
Karl Anthony Racine is a Haitian-American lawyer and politician. He was the first independently elected Attorney General for the District of Columbia,a position he held from 2015 to 2023. Before that,he was the managing partner of Venable LLP. As Attorney General,Racine received national attention for his work on antitrust matters,and in 2021 launched an eventually-dismissed antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.
Arthur Lee Bentley III is an American attorney who was the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida from 2014 until 2017. In January 2018,he joined Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP,a law firm which has an office based in Tampa,Florida.
Channing Durward Phillips is an attorney who served as the acting United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from March to November 2021. He previously served in the position from October 2015 to September 2017,under President Barack Obama.
Robert Campbell Troyer is an American lawyer from Colorado who formerly served as United States Attorney for the District of Colorado.
Mark Floyd Pomerantz is an American attorney. He is a member of the New York law firm Paul,Weiss,Rifkind,Wharton &Garrison,generally referred to as Paul,Weiss. In February 2021,he left that firm to assist with the Manhattan District Attorney's investigation into the finances of former president Donald Trump until his resignation from the case in February 2022.
Jerome O'Neill is an attorney from Vermont. He is most notable for his service as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for Vermont (1973–1975),First Assistant U.S. Attorney (1975–1981),and United States Attorney (1981).
